2013 Emmy Award Winner- Outstanding Health/Science/Environment - Program/Special
2012 1st Place, Society of Professional Journalists Award for Explanatory Journalism
2012 Emmy Award Nomination
2012 Story "Marine Sanctuary Patrol Flight" part of the Best Online Series winner at international BLUE Ocean Film Festival
2012 Story “Disappearing Frogs” featured at the Society for Conservation Biology’s North America Congress film night
2011 Acoustical Society of America's Science Writing Award
2011 Emmy Award Winner- Outstanding Health/Science/Environment - Program/Special
2011 Story “The Great White Shark: Meet the Man in the Gray Suit” featured in the San Francisco International Ocean Film Festival
2011 Stories “California’s Lost Salmon” and “Albino Redwoods: Ghosts of the Forest” both voted finalists at the San Francisco Green Film Festival
2011 Story “Into the Inferno: Science of Fire!” voted Finalist in the International Forest Film Festival
2011 Story “California’s Lost Salmon” featured in the Sonoma Environmental Film Festival
2010 1st Place, Society of Professional Journalists Award for Excellence in Journalism for Multiplatform Journalism: “Quest: The Farallon Islands”
2010 Story “Scary Tsunamis” voted Finalist – Marine Earth Sciences program at the international BLUE Ocean Film Festival
2010 Story “The Farallon Islands: California’s Galapagos” voted Finalist – National Marine Sanctuary Short program and also voted Honorable Mention in Broadcast category at the international BLUE Ocean Film Festival
2010 Story “California’s Lost Salmon” was voted Honorable Mention in the category, Land Sea Connection and was given a special screening at the BLUE Salmon panel at the international BLUE Ocean Film Festival. Two additional stories, “The Great White Shark: Meet the Man in the Gray Suit” and “Tagging Pacific Predators” were also each featured as official selections at BLUE Ocean Film Festival
2010 2nd Place Winner, Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ) Award, Outstanding Beat or In-Depth Reporting, Television; for the show “Quest National Parks Special: Bringing the Parks to the People”
2010 2nd Place Winner, Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ) Award, Outstanding Online Reporting; for the online multi-media presentation “A Visit to the Farallones”
2010 Emmy Award Nomination- Best Public/Current/Community Affairs - Program/Special. For the show “QUEST National Parks Special: Bringing the Parks to the People”
2010 Story “The Farallon Islands: California’s Galapagos” featured in the San Francisco International Ocean Film Festival Youth Education Program
2009 1st Place, Society of Professional Journalists Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism for the television special: “Quest: California at the Tipping Point”
2009 Radio-Television News Directors Association of Northern California Journalism Award for Outstanding Public Affairs Program for the special, “QUEST: State of Thirst: The California's Water Future”
2009 Media Partner of the Year Award from the Gulf of The Farallones National Marine Sanctuary
2009 1st Place, Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ) Award, Outstanding Story, Television, National / Large Market; for story “Tagging Pacific Predators”
2009 Story “Landslide Detectives” Voted Finalist- Best Earth Science Program at the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival
2009 Four stories, “The Fierce Humboldt Squid,” “Disappearing Frogs,” “California’s Lost Salmon” and “Tagging Pacific Predators” were each featured as official selections at The Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival
2009 Emmy Award Winner- Best Informational/Instructional - Program/Special for Show “Quest: State of Thirst: California's Water Future”
2009 Also received Three additional Emmy Award Nominations
2009 Story “Disappearing Frogs” featured in The Environmental Film Festival, Washington DC.
2009 Story “Ugo Conti’s Spiderboat” featured in the Alaska Ocean Film Festival. Submitted as one of the Best in Show to the International Marine Conservation Congress’ Film Night
2009 Story “Tagging Pacific Predators” featured in the Alaska Ocean Film Festival
2009 Story “Fierce Humboldt Squid” featured in the Alaska Ocean Film Festival
2009 Story “Ugo Conti’s Spiderboat” featured in the San Francisco International Ocean Film Festival
2009 Story “From Salt Ponds to Wetlands” featured in the San Francisco International Ocean Film Festival
2009 Story “Super Laser at the National Ignition Facility” featured at “Science Café” event, accompanied with a lecture and question-and-answer period with expert Edward Moses
Since 2008 Story “Tagging Pacific Predators” is screened three times a day, every day at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Auditorium Theatre
2008 Story “Disappearing Frogs” opening film of the annual United Nations Association Film Festival
2008 1st Place, Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ) Award, Outstanding Television Story, for story “Condors vs. Lead Bullets”
2008 Emmy Award Winner- Public/Current/Community Affairs - Program/Special
2008 Also received 2 additional Emmy nominations
2008 Story “Science of Big Waves” featured in the Alaska Ocean Film Festival.
2008 Story “Science of Big Waves” featured in the San Francisco International Ocean Film Festival
2007 San Francisco Peninsula Press Club Award for Story “Out of the Park: The Physics of Baseball”
2007 Bronze Telly Award, “Man Moment Machine” for The History Channel
2006 Two Silver Telly Awards (First Place) & One Bronze Telly Award for “Man Moment Machine” for The History Channel
2005 Two Bronze Telly Awards for “Tactical To Practical” for The History Channel
Christopher Bauer
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