Cesar Arturo Godoy Morales

CURRICULUM VITAE COMPLETE NAME: DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH: NATIONALITY: MARITAL STATUS: LANGUAGES: HOME ADDRESS: E-MAILS: PHONE NUMBER: SKYPE: Cesar Arturo Godoy Morales. June 29th, 1974, Puerto Barrios, Izabal. Guatemalan. Single. Spanish and English. 2da calle 16-57 zona 1, Guatemala City, Guatemala, 01001.-and- -. godoyarturo. PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS: General: To keep on pursuing photography and team work in an overall growing and learning ambience. Specific interests: To justly photograph persons, wildlife, nature and life in a documentary manner. To be part of a healthy working professional team, in which curiosity in exploring the wonders of nature is encouraged. EDUCATION: 1999: Licenciado en Biología. Faculty of Science and Humanities, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, Guatemala. 1990: High School. Toledo Community College, Punta Gorda, Toledo, Belize. WORK EXPERIENCE: 2009 - Present Freelance Photographer. Self-taught photographer specialized in documentaries, portraits, landscape, nature and archaeology. http://ello.co/arturogodoym http://instagram.com/arturogodoy http://500px.com/arturogodoy http://arturogodoy.myows.com 2014 - 2018 Logistics manager of the El Tintal Archaeological Project, community of Carmelita, San Andrés, Petén, under the direction of Dr. Mary Jane Acuña and Licda. Varinia Matute. In charge of logistics and acquisition of supplies during field excavation seasons. 2012 (July 15th) – 2017 (September 19th) Photographer, general assistant, cook assistant, and logistics. Ni’tun Natural Private Reserve, www.nitun.com. This has probably been the most multi tasking job, like cooking, driving, boat driving, hosting, logistics, acquisitions of supplies, food supplies, etc. 2014 (October 26th – November 14th) Coordinator, Photographer, Interpreter, Translator and Logistics for the Team of Instructors for the Training Workshop for the Unit of Security of the Tikal National Park. The Team Leaders and Instructors: Lauri A. Kingsbury and Arthur A. Kingsbury. Tikal National Park, Petén, Guatemala. Funded by the US Embassy in Guatemala. 2013 (May) Logistics and Photographer for the development of the Physical Security Plan of the Tikal National Park. The Team Leaders: Lauri A. Kingsbury and Arthur A. Kingsbury. Tikal National Park, Petén, Guatemala. Funded by the US Embassy in Guatemala. 2011 (March) Logistics and Photographer for the Heritage Sites Security Workshop. The Team Leaders: Lauri A. Kingsbury and Arthur A. Kingsbury. Santa Elena, Petén, Guatemala. Funded by the US Embassy in Guatemala. 2003 (March 17th) – 2008 Field Camp Director/Administrator for the Archaeological Project El Perú-WAKA’, (November 30th) directed by David Freidel (Washington University in St. Louis) and Héctor Escobedo (Universidad del Valle de Guatemala/Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala). The main activities are to direct and manage all logistics and field expenses, facilitation of all processes, as well as an advisor in relation to all natural resources management and conservation efforts, during on and off archaeological field work. 2008 Field Camp Director/Administrator for the Regional Archaeological Project La Corona, directed by Marcello Canuto (Yale University) and Tomás Barrientos (Universidad del Valle de Guatemala). The main activities are to direct and manage all logistics and field expenses, facilitation of all processes, as well as an advisor in relation to all natural resources management and conservation efforts, during on and off archaeological field work. 2006 – 2007 (February) Freelance Consultant for The Nature Conservancy – Petén, Guatemala: Writing technical documents for the inscription of private lands as Natural Private Reserves. 2004 (August) – 2005 Teacher of Ecology for 2nd semester at Faculty of Architecture, Centro Universitario del Petén de la Universidad Mariano Gálvez de Guatemala. 2001 (December) - 2003 (March 15th) Technical Administrator of Wildlife Conservation Society, Flores, Petén, for the project Monitoring of the Ecological Integrity of the Maya Biosphere Reserve. The main activities were to provide technical and scientific assistance to all field and office personnel. Likewise, technical support was provided to all other aspects such as administration, financing, accounting, informatics, logistics, as well as to assist in internal and external institutional relationships. 2001 (March – September): Consultant of ONCA (Organización Nacional para la Conservación y el Ambiente) in Puerto Barrios, Izabal, for the development of the Master Plan for Área de Protección Especial Punta de Manabique. The activities in this work were based on being the link consultant to 11 communities of Punta de Manabique, GO’s and Local NGO’s in the area. Likewise I revised and assessed the ONCA Team in social and environmental aspects of Punta de Manabique and Izabal. I was also in charge of all the organization for the workshops that took place, in which representatives of Communities, GO’s and NGO’s participated. 2000 (January – December): Chief of the Hydrobiological Resources Section, Department of Wild Life (Departamento de Vida Silvestre) of the National Council for Protected Areas (Consejo Nacional de Áreas Protegidas - CONAP), Region VIII, Petén. The activities in this GO were related mainly on: coordination, revision, evaluation, and approval of technical projects on the management and extraction of hydrobiological resources of Petén; participation in the elaboration of proposals that solved problems that rose during my work; propose technical and scientific research; and, coordinate actions to reduce the illegal extraction of hydrobiological resources within the area. Likewise, many activities were coordinated with NGOs and GOs within and outside Petén. Approximately from July to December I worked strongly with fishing communities around the Lake Petén Itzá, since a phenomenon of sudden death of the Blanco Fish (Petenia splendida) took place. 1999 (August – November): Teacher of Functional Biology of the Vertebrates 1 and Contemporary Biology Lab. Teacher (Department of Biology). Universidad del Valle de Guatemala. 1999 (January-May): Teacher Assistant of English V (Department of Ecotourism) and of Mathematics 1 (Department of Mathematics). Universidad del Valle de Guatemala. 1992 - 1999 Teacher Assistant of: Collection of Herpetology, Ecology, General Ecology and General Biology 1 and 2 (Department of Biology). Universidad del Valle de Guatemala. ART – PHOTOGRAPHY: • Solo Exhibit: “Legados de Vida” (Life legacies) for the Event “De Memorias y Olvidos” (Of memories and oblivions), Café y Restaurante Cultural La Siempre Viva, Guatemala. October 8 -30 of 2018. th th • Solo Exhibit: “Legados de Vida” (Life legacies) for the Event “De Memorias y Olvidos” (Of memories and oblivions), Museo Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, MUSAC, Guatemala. May 3rd-14th of 2018. • Photo of Malu Byrne, David Byrne, and Lorena Castillo in Ooom Magazine. https://www.ooom.com/digital/davidbyrne/. February 14th, 2017. • Photographs “in situ” of the Royal Mayan Tomb in the book by Stephen Houston, Sarah Newman, Edwin Román, and Thomas Garrison. 2016. “Temple of the Night Sun: A Royal Tomb at El Diablo, Guatemala”. Precolumbia Mesoweb Press. http://www.mesoweb.com/books/TONS.html. • Collective photo exhibition, Petén Club of Photography. March 20th-24th, 2016. Flores, Petén, Guatemala. • 13 photographs in the book “Los Mayas: Voces de Piedra”. 2nd. Ed. Edited by Alejandra Martínez de Velasco y María Elena Vega. 2016. Ambar Diseño S.C. México D.F. The book is also published in English. • Photographs in the Ph.D. Dissertation of Lucia Henderson. 2013. Bodies Politic, Bodies in Stone: Imagery of the Human and the Divine in the Sculpture of Late Preclassic Kaminaljuyú, Guatemala. University of Texas at Austin. http://www.academia.edu/-/DISSERTATION_Bodies_Politic_Bodies_in_Stone_Imagery_of_the_Human_and_the_Divine_in_the_Sculpture_of_Late_Preclas sic_Kaminaljuyú_Guatemala. • Founding member of the Petén Club of Photography. November 2012. • Photo published in the Las Américas contest for the Rita Magazine, http://www.revue-rita.com/concours-photo.html, Paris, France. 2012. • Cover photo of the 360 Magazine, and an article on my work. April 2012, Quetzaltenango, Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. • Collective photo exhibitions with the Antigua Guatemala Club of Photography in 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012. • Published photographs in the January editions of the Revue Magazine for the years 2007 to 2012. Antigua Guatemala. • Calendar 2011, “Threads, the Women of Corazón de Mujer”. Cover photo (also for August), June, October, November and back cover photo. • Photos of the Quiriguá and El Zotz archaeological sites, as well as some of Belize, in the December 2011 edition of the Revue Magazine. Antigua Guatemala. • International collective exhibition on “Family United – World United”. Russia. http://en.expo-family.com/lang/5/. 2011. • 18 photographs published in the book “Los Mayas: Voces de Piedra.” http://es.scribd.com/doc/-/Los-MayasVoces-de-Piedra. Edited by Alejandra Martínez de Velasco and María Elena Vega, 2011, Ambar Diseño, S.C., México D.F. • 31 photographs published in the book “El sistema guatemalteco de áreas protegidas, base fundamental para el bienestar de la sociedad guatemalteca”. Consejo Nacional de Áreas Protegidas. 2011. CONAP/ZOOTROPIC. Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala. • Cover photos of the September 2010 and December 2010 of the Revue Magazine. Antigua Guatemala. • Cover photo of Revista Arqueología Guatemalteca. Año 1, Volumen 1, also in pages 12 y 13. 2008. Guatemala City. • Group Exposition of Flickr Guatemala Photographers, www.flickr.com/groups/flickrguatemala. Theme: Paradise Republic. Miraflores Museum, Guatemala City, July 3rd -24th, 2008. • Cover page picture for the Magazine Arqueología Guatemalteca. Year 1, Volume 1, and pages 12 and 13. 2008. Guatemala City. • Picture for the Revue Magazine, www.revuemag.com, page 90, Fire Volcano. Year 16, No. 11. January 2008. Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala. • Two pictures for the 2008 Calendar by the Defensores de la Naturaleza Foundation, months February and August. Guatemala City. • Group Exposition of Flickr Guatemala Photographers, www.flickr.com/groups/flickrguatemala. Theme: Guatemala, Different Visions. Galería Rocío Quiroa, Guatemala City, November 8th-29th, 2007. • Pictures of the Island of Flores, Petén, in the Section “The Island of Flores” on the Experience Guatemala Magazine, September-October Edition of 2007 (Year 1). Guatemala City. • Solo Exposition, Café y Restaurante Yaxhá, Flores, Petén. Theme: Petén’s Fauna and Nature. All through 2007. • Solo Exposition, Cool Beans Café and Restaurant, Flores, Petén. Theme: Petén’s Beauty. All through 2007 and 2008. • Group Exposition “Petén’s Visions”: Paintings by Marco Antonio Azmitia, Sculptures by Edwin Bendfeldt and Photographs by Arturo Godoy. Themes: Flores and short sighted view of Petén’s Nature). “Dreams of Petén” Cultural Festival, Miraflores Museum, Guatemala City. March 9th-31st of 2007. • Other publications, of different natures, photodocumentaries included: http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Seeking-justice-for-Guatemalan-village-where-.php http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/health/110714/ghi-targets-chronic-malnutrition-guatemala http://www.archaeology.org/1101/topten/guatemala.html http://revuemag.com/2010/09/september-2010-in-revue-magazine/ Or http://revuemag.com/2010/09/mayan-royal-tomb-unearthed/ http://news.brown.edu/pressreleases/2010/07/tomb http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/07/100721-maya-tomb-human-fingers-kingguatemala-science/ http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/mayan-kings-tomb-found-in-guatemala.html http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2010/07/maya-royal-tomb-discovered-filled- withofferings/1 http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jul/26/science/la-sci-guatemalan-king- IMPORTANT SEMINARS AND/OR WORKSHOPS: • Workshop-talk on Photo Documentaries and Photo Essays for the class of Audiovisual Anthropology, Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, Guatemala. October 13th, 2017. • Presenter/Instructor at the First Photographic Workshop of the Petén Club of Photography. Santa Elena, Petén, June 5th, 2016. • Talk on Photopassion for the classes Introduction to Photography, Universidad Galileo, Guatemala. May 29th and June 1st, 2012. • Presentation on “Anthropological Photography” for an introductory course on Anthropology at the CalPoly Pomona, California. 2011. • Intensive Training Course in The Nature Conservancy’s Methodology for the Conservation Planning of Areas. PROARCA/APM Gulf of Honduras and The Nature Conservancy. San Pedro Sula, August 22nd-24th, 2006. • II International Encounter on Sustainable Development in Petén: Environmental Governance. Facultad de Latinoamerica de Ciencias Sociales and Asociación de Comunidades Forestales de Petén. Hotel Petén Espléndido. August 23rd-25th, 2005. • Workshop on Biological Monitoring for the Maya Biosphere Reserve. Wildlife Conservation Society. Las Guacamayas Biological Station, Petén, January 18th-20th of 2002. • Workshop of the Small Grant Program of the United Nations Development Program, for the elaboration of Projects. Puerto Barrios, Izabal, July, 11th-13th of 2001. • Course of Marine Biology and Management of Fishery Resources (Biología Marina y Manejo del Recurso Pesquero). Livingston, October 18th-19th, 1999. The Nature Conservancy, Fundaeco, and PROARCA/Costas. • Seminar Economic Development and Ecology (Desarrollo Económico y Ecología). Guatemala, June 16th, 1995. Centro de Estudios Ambientales, Instituto de Investigaciones, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala. • Seminar Workshop Forestry Science (Ciencia Forestal). Guatemala, March 15th-18th, 1994. Cooperative Program Universidad del Valle de Guatemala and Texas A&M University. • Second Central American and Caribbean Workshop on Analytical, Environmental and Sanitary Chemistry (II Taller Centroamericano y del Caribe sobre Química Analítica, Ambiental y Sanitaria). Guatemala, June 28th- July 2nd, 1992. International Association of Environmental Analytical Chemistry, Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, and Universidad del Valle de Guatemala. CONSULTANCIES AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS: Godoy Morales, C. A. y A. M. Fión-Lizama Zetina. 2007. Propuesta Técnica y Legal: Ficha para la inscripción de la Finca El Chechenal, Propiedad del Señor Eduardo Ramón Sósimo Balán Corzo, como Reserva Natural Privada. Consultancy for The Nature Conservancy. Godoy Morales, C. A. y A. M. Fión-Lizama Zetina. 2007. Propuesta Técnica y Legal: Ficha para la inscripción de la Finca Oti, Propiedad del Señor Edgar Rolando Balán Corzo, como Reserva Natural Privada. Consultancy for The Nature Conservancy. Godoy Morales, C. A. y A. M. Fión-Lizama Zetina. 2006. Propuesta Técnica y Legal: Ficha para la inscripción de la Finca AA, Propiedad del Señor Alberto Girón Cabrera, como Reserva Natural Privada. Consultoría para The Nature Conservancy. Godoy Morales, C. A. y A. M. Fión-Lizama Zetina. 2006. Propuesta Técnica y Legal: Ficha para la inscripción de la Finca Fase I (Finca Chacá), Propiedad del Señor Carlos René Jiménez Marroquín, como Reserva Natural Privada. Consultoría para The Nature Conservancy. Godoy Morales, C. A. y A. M. Fión-Lizama Zetina. 2006. Propuesta Técnica y Legal: Ficha para la inscripción de la Finca La Democracia, Propiedad del Comité Pro Adquisición de Tierras para los Desarraigados del Caserío La Democracia, como Reserva Natural Privada. Consultoría para The Nature Conservancy. Godoy Morales, C. A. y A. M. Fión-Lizama Zetina. 2006. Propuesta Técnica y Legal: Ficha para la inscripción de la Finca El Pollo, Propiedad del Señor Raúl Granados España, como Reserva Natural Privada. Consultoría para The Nature Conservancy. Godoy Morales, C. A. y A. M. Fión-Lizama Zetina. 2006. Propuesta Técnica y Legal: Ficha para la inscripción de la Finca Proyecto Mopán, Propiedad del Señor Santiago Cristóbal Puga Reynoso, como Reserva Natural Privada. Consultoría para The Nature Conservancy. Radachowsky, J. J., D.F. Whitacre, R.D. Bjork, A. Godoy y R.B. McNab. 2002. Monitoreo de la Integridad Ecológica de la Reserva de la Biosfera Maya, Petén, Guatemala. Wildlife Conservation Society, Flores, Petén, Guatemala. 72pp. Baur, E. H., J.J. Radachowsky, A. Godoy y S. Alemán. 2002. Reporte Técnico del Diseño y Metodología de Transectos de Vertebrados Mayores. Wildlife Conservation Society, Flores, Petén, Guatemala. 69pp. Wildlife Conservation Society. 2002. Taller de Monitoreo Biológico de la Reserva de la Biosfera Maya: Estación Biológica las Guacamayas, Peten. 18-20 de Enero del 2002. WCS–FIPA–AID–CONAP. Godoy Morales, C.A. 1999. Época de Desove y Dieta de la Manjúa Negra, Anchoa lyolepis, Engraulididae, Teleostei (Everman & Marsh 1902). Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, Guatemala. 50 pp. OTHER: • Advanced Open Water Diver. • Driving of small boats. • Driver’s license of small to medium size vehicles. • Use of Software: Windows, MAC OS, Office and other social networking software. • Translator of several documents for ProPetén, Just World Partners-Guatemala (Asociación Alianza para un Mundo Justo), Henry Tschinkel (Chemonics/USAID), RARE. SPORTS: • Swimming. REFERENCES: Mary Jane Acuña, Ph.D. Director at El Tintal Archaeological Project, San Andrés, Petén, Guatemala.-Telephone: +(502)- David Freidel, Ph.D. Director at El Perú, WAKA’ Archaeological Project, Laguna del Tigre National Park, San Andrés, Petén, Guatemala. Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, MO, USA.-Telephone (USA): +1-(314)- Michelle Rich, Ph.D. Researcher at El Perú-WAKA’ Archaeological Project, Laguna del Tigre National Park, San Andrés, Petén, Guatemala. Assistant Curator of the Arts of the Americas Dallas Museum of Art--Museum Telephone (USA): +1-(214)- Telephone (USA): +1-(432)-