Mark is an expert on the rain forest treetops, home to most of the Earth's biodiversity.  He was first to climb the world's tallest tree.  One lecture offering, The High Frontier: Exploring the Rain Forest Canopy, evolved from his book of the same title.

Mark investigates the social lives of remarkable species of ants, spiders, and frogs.  He brings them to life in Ants Among Us: Tales From Under a Rock, a series of vignettes about strange creatures.  He also mesmerizes with the lecture of his own explorations in Adventures for a New Millennium.
 
 

"...and a star was born," wrote NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC (Editor's Page, November 1997) of Dr. Mark W. Moffett's multifaceted career.  Elsewhere called a "World-roving zoologist" by the same magazine, Mark has won the top invitational awards in photography and journalism and a medal for writing from Harvard while maintaining his stature as a foremost expert in tropical exploration around the World.  He has appeared in a number of television specials, and has been the subject of one for PBS.  As a research scientist and ecologist, Mark has been affiliated with Harvard, the Smithsonian, National Geographic, and is now based in Berkeley.
 

"Mark has the soul of a 19th-century explorer, a wandering naturalist in the tradition of Darwin and Wallace.  He spent two years in the rain forests of Asia for his doctoral research, and has since personally explored almost all the other major tropical forests around the world, traveling long distances by boat and on foot along the shadowed trails and climbing up ropes, towers, and ladders into the canopy..."