Tracy Graziano owns Moonfire Film Productions in Erie, PA. Moonfire Film Productions (MFP) is a science, wildlife and natural history documentary film company that is dedicated to accurate science communication. Our company is currently in production for a film that will premiere in the Big Green Screen Theatre at the Tom Ridge Environmental Center. MFP recently completed a zebra mussel control training film for Pennsylvania Sea Grant, an avian documentary for the Presque Isle Audubon Society, and four public service announcements for the Northwestern Pennsylvania County Conservation Districts. The Sea Grant film helps recruit and train volunteers for their Monitoring Network, which keeps track of the invasive mussel in Pennsylvania’s waterways. “Wings, Sand & Song” is a film on the habitats and birds at Presque Isle State Park, and premiered at the 2008 Migratory Bird Festival at the Tom Ridge Environmental Center at Presque Isle. The Conservation District PSA’s aired on WJET, the local ABC affiliate. They informed the public on different conservation issues each week. MFP is currently contracted to operate the Big Green Screen at the Tom Ridge Environmental Center. Tracy also assisted the Science North film crew at Presque Isle State Park for the “Mysteries of the Great Lakes” IMAX film, which premiered in May of 2008. She is currently active on the Presque Isle Partnership Environmental Research Committee, the Presque Isle Audubon Society Board of Trustees, and the 32o Masonic Learning Center for Children Board of Governors. Tracy has also completed a documentary for the Regional Science Consortium, which plays on a continuous loop at the Tom Ridge Environmental Center in Erie, Pennsylvania. Most recently, she sold coyote footage to National Geographic Television and Film for an episode of “Deadly Dozen” which aired in May 2009.
Tracy Graziano holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Science and Natural History Filmmaking from Montana State University. She completed two films for the National Science Foundation’s EPSCoR program, and worked on her thesis film in Yellowstone National Park, Algonquin Provincial Park, and Presque Isle State Park. Tracy was awarded grants from the National Science Foundation and the American Wildlife Research Foundation for her thesis film. She also worked with Batwin & Robin Productions on the Presque Isle Orientation Film as a local guide and expert to the park. In addition, Tracy also recorded sound for the film production. Tracy was a teaching assistant for Cell Biology at Montana State University for three semesters.
Tracy graduated from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania in December of 2000 with degrees in Environmental Science-Biology and Applied Media Arts-Cinematography. Tracy acted as an intern supervisor at Presque Isle State Park in Erie, Pennsylvania. Here, she developed and implemented a plan for 2000 and 2001 to control invasive plant species. She was awarded the Pennsylvania Biology Student of the Year by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania University Biologists and a recipient of the Franks G. Brooks Award from Beta Beta Beta (BBB) for undergraduate scientific research on coyotes. She was an Associate Member in BBB, a national biological honors society. Tracy has given over forty lectures about her research on Canis latrans for DCNR Administration and Staff, visiting groups to Presque Isle State Park, three BBB meetings. The Stull Interpretive Center at Presque Isle has also hosted Tracy as a speaker six times for public lectures. She has twice presented her graduate work at Presque Isle’s Environmental Research Symposium, as a lecturer for the Visiting Scientist Series at Presque Isle, at Penn State – The Behrend College, and three times as a guest speaker at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania.
She served two and one-half years as the Scholar-In-Residence on the Science, Management, Technology and Business Living and Learning floor on Edinboro campus. Based on her field observations at Presque Isle, Tracy produced a twenty-minute video on Canis latrans at Presque Isle. From October 2000 to July 2001, park staff, Edinboro and Gannon Faculty and students assisted Tracy in trapping and radio collaring two coyotes on Presque Isle. She received a grant from the Presque Isle Partnership to complete this work on C. latrans, a newcomer to the park. This project was designed to involve students and faculty of Edinboro and Gannon University; and strengthen the working relationship with surrounding universities and Presque Isle. Carrie Duafala, a graduate student at Edinboro University, is currently in the process of revamping Tracy’s scientific research on coyotes at Presque Isle State Park.
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