Teams/ Projects
Carlee currently works with the Platte Basin Timelapse team to document the Platte River Basin watershed. She is a story producer and instructor with the project. PBT tells stories of the watershed including the landscapes, wildlife and plant species, and people within it by creating original photo essays, writing, and film. Carlee also delivers public presentations, and works regularly with landowners, biologists and artists, and collaboratively with the PBT production team on larger scale productions. She also teaches Intro to Conservation Photography at the University of Nebraska- Lincoln School of Natural Resources.
Salt Valley Greenways: Nature’s Network was Carlee’s most recent project published in 2023 after defending it as her master’s thesis. This was a two year project and you can view the video and other PBT stories by Carlee HERE.
Carlee contributed as a Research Aide for the Haub School at the University of Wyoming as a part of Dr. Drew Bennet’s Working Lands and Wildlife project. She developed outreach materials including short films and original photojournalism materials, communicated and collaborated with landowner partners and ranchers, managed wildlife trailcameras and time-lapse cameras, and organized image databases.
To see an example of her video editing work with the Working Lands and Wildlife Project, CLICK HERE.
Carlee was in intern with the Platte Basin Timelapse project through her entire undergraduate career. This is where she got her start building timelapses and finding creative approaches toward sharing the natural world with others.
To see an example of her work as an assistant editor with PBT, CLICK HERE.
To see an example of her interpretive writing and photography work, CLICK HERE.
To see an example of her original interpretive video/editing work, CLICK HERE.
Carlee worked on a reporting team made up of University of Nebraska- Lincoln students and professors that focused on the threat of climate change in the central state of Nebraska. This was an effort through the journalism school. Stories ranged on topics from political impressions to record breaking floods to elementary children healthcare.
To read Carlee’s reporting story on the threat climate change imposes on Nebraska wildlife, CLICK HERE.
ETHICS *Photography of wildlife is achieved in as “hands off” of an approach as possible. Carlee uses blinds when available and does not chase after, call out to/harass wildlife just for the sake of a shot. In settings where wild animals are in an enclosure such as in rehabilitation situations, there is much effort taken to ensure as minimal habituation as possible to ensure eventual effective and safe release. The wellbeing of the animal comes first.
Otter Rehab with Nebraska Wildlife Rehab
Tallgrass ecoregion: Full ecoregion explorative story in Biodiversity of Nebraska
