Gary D. Robson (May 11, 1958) is an American author from Red Lodge,

Montana Montana () is a state in the Mountain West division of the Western United States. It is bordered by Idaho to the west, North Dakota and South Dakota to the east, Wyoming to the south, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columbi ...

. He is best known for his children's picture book series entitled ''Who Pooped in the Park?'', which teaches children about animal scat and tracks. The series currently comprises 20 books, mostly set in United States National Parks. The 20th book in the series was released in 2016, covering

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. Robson is also an expert in

closed captioning Closed captioning (CC) and subtitling are both processes of displaying text on a television, video screen, or other visual display to provide additional or interpretive information. Both are typically used as a transcription of the audio por ...

and

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technologies for

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and hard of hearing people.

Biography

Robson was born in

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in 1958 and grew up in

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, where he graduated from Boulder High School in 1976. He began writing for technical journals in 1984, and wrote a series of computer manuals before writing his first book in 1996 with Richard Sherman (a.k.a. Mr. Modem). He continued to write while working in the electronics industry until 2001, when he and his wife moved to Montana and purchased a bookstore. He was the publisher and editor-in-chief of the monthly alternative newspaper in Red Lodge, The Local Rag.

Closed captioning

Cheetah International, the company founded by Robson and his wife, began producing software and equipment for

in 1997, and Robson published articles on the subject for a variety of publications, including the ''Journal of Court Reporting'', ''Newswaves'', and '' Nuts & Volts''. He holds three patents related to closed captioning: U.S. Patent #7,360,234 (2008), U.S. Patent #8,245,252 B2 (2012), and U.S. Patent #8,312,485 (2008). He was presented with the Andrew Saks Engineering Award for "outstanding contributions in improving visual accessibility to information via realtime captioning for deaf and hard-of-hearing Americans" by

Telecommunications for the Deaf, Inc. TDI (originally known as Telecommunications for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Inc.) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization headquartered in Silver Spring, Maryland, and was founded in 1968. Its original purpose was to promote widespread distributio ...

in 1997. He wrote three books about closed captioning, most notably ''The Closed Captioning Handbook'', published by

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, then an imprint of

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. He presented a

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at TEDxBozeman in 2014 entitled, "Does closed captioning still serve deaf people?"

Works

Children's picture books

The ''Who Pooped in the Park?'' series is published by Farcountry Press in Helena, Montana. Each book in the series focuses on the indigenous wildlife of a particular National Park or ecosystem in the United States. Robson has used two different illustrators. Elijah Brady Clark illustrated the first six books, and Robert Rath has illustrated the rest. * ''Who Pooped in

?'' – (2016) * ''Who Pooped in the

Redwoods Sequoioideae, popularly known as redwoods, is a subfamily of coniferous trees within the family Cupressaceae. It includes the largest and tallest trees in the world. Description The three redwood subfamily genera are '' Sequoia'' from co ...

?'' – (2015) * ''Who Pooped in the Cascades?'' – (2013) * ''Who Pooped in the

North Woods The Laurentian Mixed Forest Province, also known as the North Woods, is a forested ecoregion in eastern North America. Among others, this terminology has been adopted by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. Similar, though not n ...

?'' – (2008) * ''Who Pooped on the

Colorado Plateau The Colorado Plateau, also known as the Colorado Plateau Province, is a physiographic and desert region of the Intermontane Plateaus, roughly centered on the Four Corners region of the southwestern United States. This province covers an area of ...

?'' – (2008) * ''Who Pooped in the

Black Hills The Black Hills ( lkt, Ȟe Sápa; chy, Moʼȯhta-voʼhonáaeva; hid, awaxaawi shiibisha) is an isolated mountain range rising from the Great Plains of North America in western South Dakota and extending into Wyoming, United States. Black Elk P ...

?'' – (2007) * ''Who Pooped in the Park? (

Death Valley National Park Death Valley National Park is an American national park that straddles the California–Nevada border, east of the Sierra Nevada. The park boundaries include Death Valley, the northern section of Panamint Valley, the southern section of Eureka ...

)'' – (2007) * ''Who Pooped in the Park? (

Big Bend National Park Big Bend National Park is an American national park located in West Texas, bordering Mexico. The park has national significance as the largest protected area of Chihuahuan Desert topography and ecology in the United States, and was named after ...

)'' – (2006) * ''Who Pooped in the Park? (

Acadia National Park Acadia National Park is an American national park located along the mid-section of the Maine coast, southwest of Bar Harbor. The park preserves about half of Mount Desert Island, part of the Isle au Haut, the tip of the Schoodic Peninsula, and ...

)'' – (2006) * ''Who Pooped in the Park? (

Olympic National Park Olympic National Park is a United States national park located in the State of Washington, on the Olympic Peninsula. The park has four regions: the Pacific coastline, alpine areas, the west-side temperate rainforest, and the forests of the drier ...

)'' – (2006) * ''Who Pooped in the

Sonoran Desert The Sonoran Desert ( es, Desierto de Sonora) is a desert in North America and ecoregion that covers the northwestern Mexican states of Sonora, Baja California, and Baja California Sur, as well as part of the southwestern United States (in Arizona ...

?'' – (2006) * ''Who Pooped in the Park? (

Shenandoah National Park Shenandoah National Park (often ) is an American national park that encompasses part of the Blue Ridge Mountains in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The park is long and narrow, with the Shenandoah River and its broad valley to the west, and the ...

)'' – (2006) * ''Who Pooped in the Park? ( Sequoia/

Kings Canyon National Park Kings Canyon National Park is an American national park in the southern Sierra Nevada, in Fresno and Tulare Counties, California. Originally established in 1890 as General Grant National Park, the park was greatly expanded and renamed to Kings ...

s)'' – (2006) * ''Who Pooped in the Park? (

Rocky Mountain National Park Rocky Mountain National Park is an American national park located approximately northwest of Denver in north-central Colorado, within the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. The park is situated between the towns of Estes Park to the east and ...

)'' – (2005) * ''Who Pooped in the Park? (

Grand Canyon National Park Grand Canyon National Park, located in northwestern Arizona, is the 15th site in the United States to have been named as a national park. The park's central feature is the Grand Canyon, a gorge of the Colorado River, which is often consider ...

)'' – (2005) * ''Who Pooped in the Park? (

Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area The Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area in Clark County, Nevada, is an area managed by the Bureau of Land Management as part of its National Landscape Conservation System, and protected as a National Conservation Area. It is about west ...

)'' – (2005) * ''Who Pooped in the Park? (

Yosemite National Park Yosemite National Park ( ) is an American national park in California, surrounded on the southeast by Sierra National Forest and on the northwest by Stanislaus National Forest. The park is managed by the National Park Service and covers an ar ...

)'' – (2005) * ''Who Pooped in the Park? (

Grand Teton National Park Grand Teton National Park is an American national park in northwestern Wyoming. At approximately , the park includes the major peaks of the Teton Range as well as most of the northern sections of the valley known as Jackson Hole. Grand Teton Na ...

)'' – (2004) * ''Who Pooped in the Park? ( Glacier National Park)'' – (2004) * ''Who Pooped in the Park? (

Yellowstone National Park Yellowstone National Park is an American national park located in the western United States, largely in the northwest corner of Wyoming and extending into Montana and Idaho. It was established by the 42nd U.S. Congress with the Yellowston ...

)'' – (2004)

Tea Books

* ''Myths & Legends of Tea, Volume 1'' – (2015) – Proseyr Publishing * ''A Tea Journey: Your Personal Tea Cupping Journal'' – (2015) – Proseyr Publishing

Closed captioning and related technologies

* ''The Closed Captioning Handbook'' – (2004) –

* ''Alternative Realtime Careers'' – (2000) – NCRA Press * ''Inside Captioning'' – (1997) – NCRA Press

Other nonfiction

* ''Gary's Guide to Successful Book Signings'' – (2016) – Proseyr Publishing * ''The Very Best of the Red Lodge Local Rag'' – (2015) – Proseyr Publishing * ''The Darkest Hour: A Comprehensive Account of the Smith Mine Disaster of 1943, 3rd edition'' – (2015) – Proseyr Publishing (with Fay Kuhlman) * ''The Court Reporter's Guide to Cyberspace'' – (1996) – Cyberdawg Publishing (with Richard A. Sherman)

Awards and recognition

*1997 Andrew Saks Engineering Award *2014 Moonbeam Children's Book Awards Silver medal in Non-Fiction – Animals, ''Who Pooped in the Cascades?'' *2014 High Plains Book Award Finalist, ''Who Pooped in the Cascades?''“High Plains Book Award Finalists - 2014”
.

References

External links

Author page
on GoodReads
WorldCat page
{{DEFAULTSORT:Robson, Gary D 1958 births Living people American children's writers Writers from Montana American male writers People from Red Lodge, Montana Keepers of animal sanctuaries