About
As the TV Series Producer of QUEST, Amy has had the opportunity to produce stories on a great range of science and environment topics including NASA's hunt for killer asteroids, the alarming increase in premature births in the U.S. and the causes of sewage spills in San Francisco Bay. Originally from Iowa, Amy studied biology and film production at the University of Colorado, Boulder and San Francisco State University. For more than a decade, Amy has worked as a freelance documentary producer, videographer and public television producer on a variety of shows, including two other KQED series, "Spark!" and "Independent View". Her work in TV has garnered her five Emmy awards, a Society of Professional Journalists Feature Writing award and a Society of Environmental Journalists award.
Website: http://kqed.org/quest
All Contributions by Amy:
Your Videos on QUEST: Steve Fyffe
Motion-activated cameras at Stanford University's Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve provide scientists a window into the secret lives of the animals there. This short video by the Stanford News Service reveals how these "camera traps" work and shows some of the amazing animals that roam around Jasper Ridge at night.
Video on Sep 25, 2012
Your Photos on QUEST: Rogelio Bernal Andreo
Astrophotographer Rogelio Bernal Andreo's colorful wide field images of deep sky objects like galaxies, nebulae, star clusters has garnered him dozens of photography awards including the Royal Observatory of Greenwich's 2010 Best Astrophotographer of the Year.
Video on Sep 11, 2012
Your Videos on QUEST: Kip Evans
Kip Evans is a natural history documentary filmmaker and photographer from Pacific Grove, California. This is an excerpt of his short film, “Isla Holbox: Whale Shark Island."
Video on May 15, 2012
Field Notes: Oakland Zoo in Uganda
In this "Field Notes" segment, Amy Gotliffe, director of conservation at the Oakland Zoo, shares her photographs and stories from Uganda, where the zoo's Bodongo Snare Removal Project works to protect endangered chimpanzees from illegal poaching.
Video on May 08, 2012
Your Photos on QUEST: Simon Christen
Photographer Simon Christen shares his passion for observing the environment through the process of time-lapse photography. By training his lens on natural events as fog and the orbiting moon, he discovers things about the natures of these seemingly ubiquitous elements of our world that few have seen before.
Video on Apr 24, 2012
QUEST Lab: The Shaking Table at UC Berkeley
Khalid Mosalam and his colleagues at the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center's Shaking Table Laboratory are helping to make communities safer in an earthquake.
Video on Sep 20, 2011
Your Videos on QUEST: Dan Griffin of GG Films
"Ocean Babies on Acid" focuses on an experiment that Stephen Palumbi and UC Davis marine biologist Eric Sanford are doing to study the effects of ocean acidification on sea urchin larvae off the California and Oregon coasts.
Video on Sep 13, 2011
Cool Critters: The Gray Fox
QUEST visits with a rescued North American Gray Fox at the Lindsay Wildlife Museum in Walnut Creek. This elusive species is native to the Bay Area and happens to be the only member of the dog family who can climb trees.
Video on Jul 19, 2011
Your Photos on QUEST: Steven Christenson
Most nature photographers put their cameras away at night. Not Steven Christenson. As the co-founder of the very successful Bay Area Night Photography group, he guides like-minded, low-light photographers to find interesting subjects after the sun goes down. Steven reveals his special process of photographing star trails for Your Photos on QUEST.
Video on May 18, 2011
Producer's Notes: Finding Light
When I was trolling for our first YPOQ photographer for the new season of QUEST TV, I went back to some of those early submissions and was immediately struck by Christenson’s set of vibrant, kinetic images.
Post on May 17, 2011
Field Notes: Brian Fisher in Madagascar
Entomologist Brian Fisher braves raging rivers, and dense tropical forests as he travels the world searching for new species of ants before they are lost to habitat destruction. Experience a slice of Fisher's life and work through video footage from his field work with ants in Madagascar.
Video on May 11, 2011
Producer's Notes: Bugging Brian Fisher
Is there such a thing as "too much" of California Academy of Sciences entomologist Brian Fisher? We here at QUEST don't think so!
Post on May 10, 2011
Geothermal Heats Up
Solar and wind power may get the headlines when it comes to renewable energy. But another type of clean power is heating up in the hills just north of Sonoma wine country. The Geysers, the world's largest power-producing geothermal field, has been providing electricity for roughly 850,000 Northern California households, and is set to expand even further.
Video on May 04, 2011
Science on the SPOT: Measuring Redwood Giants
Forest ecologist Steve Sillett leads a team of scientists as they climb and measure every branch of the tallest old growth redwoods in California to study how they are being impacted by climate change.
Video on Dec 17, 2010
40 Years of the Clean Air Act
In 1969, there were 65 days when Bay Area air quality exceeded federal health standards. Under those same standards, last year, there wasn’t a single day over the limit. On the 40th anniversary of the Clean Air Act, we examine the impacts that the law has had on public health, business, and environmental justice in the Bay Area and what still needs to be done to improve the quality of our air.
Post on Sep 14, 2010
Polishing Oakland's Crown Jewel: Lake Merritt Reborn
Oakland's Historic Lake Merritt is in the midst of a multimillion dollar face lift.
Post on Aug 20, 2010
Ants: The Invisible Majority
Most of us think ants are just pests. But not Brian Fisher. Known as "The Ant Guy," he's on a mission to show the world just how important and amazing these little creatures are and in the process, catalog all of the world's 30,000 ant species before they become casualties of habitat loss. But he can't do it without our help.
Video on Jul 13, 2010
Producer's Notes: Ants: The Invisible Majority
Peruse all the amazing ant materials that QUEST has created and compiled in the last few months and explore for yourself the wonderful world of ants.
Post on Jul 13, 2010
QUEST Quiz: The Sun
Test your knowledge about this mysterious, awesome and most vital of stars.
Video on May 18, 2010
QUEST Quiz: Sleep
Our companion story to "Catching Up on Sleep Science", this short segment serves as a quiz for viewers to test their knowledge about sleep and sleep disorders.
Video on Apr 13, 2010
