Bio

Charles Post

Charles Post is an ecologist, an outdoorsman, sustainability communications and strategy consultant, and award winning creative.

As a Creative Director for Top 50 Farmers, his focus is on communicating the brand’s values, mission, and stories including introducing the world and broader agriculture community to the ways in which Top 50 Farmers is working with different stakeholders to scale regenerative agriculture across Europe. Charles is also responsible for developing the strategy and content showcasing the pioneering farmers leading the regenerative agriculture movement, highlighting their practices and impact and how this movement has fantastic potential to transform our home planet, and the food systems that sustain it, for good.

Before Top 50 Farmers, Charles spent nearly a decade studying at UC Berkeley and working as a research scientist focused on wild and working landscapes. He earned his B.S. and Masters degree in Ecology, studying under the celebrated researcher, Dr. Mary Power. Since then, Charles built a bridge between his science background and creative ventures through his widely followed Instagram account (@charles_post), recent podcast The Traverse with Chris Burkard, directing and producing award-winning films, and widely published writing and photography spanning topics from the decline of kittiwakes in the Norwegian arctic to the beauty and fragility of migrating raptors across North America.

Charles also works as a sustainability communications and strategy consultant supporting organizations like World Wildlife Fund and Rolex’s Perpetual Planet Initiative, and brands like Dometic, GORE-TEX, Norrøna, Hipcamp and SITKA Gear, where he developed and lead their SITKA Ecosystem Grants Program. His work is focussed on developing and activating environmentally guided strategy, communications, and projects that can positively impact our home planet. Among his most fulfilling roles was when he worked with Hipcamp to develop and lead their Land Stewardship Program, which was recognized as a finalist for Fast Company’s World Changing Idea awards. He is a member of the IUCN Species Survival Commission, a Surfrider Foundation Ambassador and a Fellow at the Explorers Club.

Charles lives in Norway’s Lofoten Islands north of the arctic circle with his wife, Rachel Pohl, his samoyeds, Knute and Rowan, and rescue cat, Hannah. He still spends his summer seasons conduction field research on birds, his passion, and is currently studying migratory shorebirds, contributing to a long-term population study supported by Bird Life Norway. You can learn more about Charles by visiting his website, charlespost.com or following along on his Instagram account @charles_post.

Academic Background

Community Outreach

Professional Memberships

Teaching Experience

• Field Biology, University of California, Berkeley (Fall, 2013)
• Field Biology, University of California, Berkeley (Spring, 2014)
• American Environmental History, University of California, Berkeley (Fall, 2014)
• Guest Lecturer, ESPM 100 Environmental Problem Solving, University of California, Berkeley (2021)

Select Field Research Experience

• 2011 – 2014, 2016 – Field research assistant under NOAA fisheries biologist, Dave Rundio, during a biannual population study on steelhead trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) in Big Sur, California. Project supported by NOAA and NMFS.

• 2012-2015 – Master’s Thesis: Principal investigator on a four year research project to study the effects of hydrologic variability on American dipper (Cinclus mexicanus) foraging and food web impacts in Mendocino, Monterey and Inyo Counties. Project supported by U.C. Berkeley.

• 2013 – Head bird-bander and field team leader for a seasonal migratory songbird study in the central Utah desert. 457 birds were banded across 44 species. Project lead by Dr. Cagan Sekercioglu and supported by the University of Utah and National Geographic.

• 2012 – Research assistant under PhD candidate, Katie LaBarbera. We investigated dark-eyed junco (Junco hyemalis) morphology and genetics over elevational gradients in the Sierra Nevada. Project lead by Dr. Rauri Bowie and supported by the U.C. Berkeley and the National Science Foundation.

• 2010 – 2014 – Field research assistant for Dr. Mary Power’s Food Web Ecology Lab at U.C. Berkeley. Over the course of four years, I contributed to an ongoing study investigating food web linkages and how they are shaped by seasonal drought, flooding and algal proliferation. Project supported by U.C. Berkeley and the National Science Foundation.

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