Gary D. Robson

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Gary D. Robson
Robson in 2009
Born	Gary Douglas Robson (1958-05-11)May 11, 1958 Poughkeepsie, New York
Occupation	Author
Genres	Nonfiction and Children's Nature/Science
Notable work(s)	Who Pooped in the Park?, The Closed Captioning Handbook
Spouse(s)	Kathryn Robson
www.robson.org/gary

Gary D. Robson (May 11, 1958) is an American author from Red Lodge, Montana. 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 17 books, mostly set in United States National Parks. He is also an expert in closed captioning and subtitling technologies for deaf and hard of hearing people.

Biography

Robson was born in Poughkeepsie, New York in 1958 and grew up in Colorado. 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.^[1]

Closed captioning

Cheetah International, the company founded by Robson and his wife,^[2] began producing software and equipment for closed captioning in 1997, and Robson published articles^[3] on the subject for a variety of publications, including the Journal of Court Reporting, Newswaves, and Nuts & Volts. He holds two patents related to closed captioning: U.S. Patent #7,360,234^[4] (2008) and U.S. Patent #8,245,252 B2^[5] (2012). He was presented with the Andrew Saks Engineering Award^[6] for "outstanding contributions in improving visual accessibility to information via realtime captioning for deaf and hard-of-hearing Americans"^[7] by Telecommunications for the Deaf, Inc. in 1997.

He wrote three books about closed captioning, most notably The Closed Captioning Handbook, published ^[8] by Focal Press, then an imprint of Elsevier.

Works

Children's picture books

The Who Pooped in the Park? series is published by Farcountry Press^[9] 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 the Park? (Yellowstone National Park) – ISBN 9781560372738 (2004)
Who Pooped in the Park? (Glacier National Park) – ISBN 9781560372790 (2004)
Who Pooped in the Park? (Grand Teton National Park) – ISBN 9781560372806 (2004)
Who Pooped in the Park? (Yosemite National Park) – ISBN 9781560373186 (2005)
Who Pooped in the Park? (Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area) – ISBN 9781560373711 (2005)
Who Pooped in the Park? (Grand Canyon National Park) – ISBN 9781560373193 (2005)
Who Pooped in the Park? (Rocky Mountain National Park) – ISBN 9781560373209 (2005)
Who Pooped in the Park? (Sequoia/Kings Canyon National Parks) – ISBN 9781560373278 (2006)
Who Pooped in the Park? (Shenandoah National Park) – ISBN 9781560373391 (2006)
Who Pooped in the Sonoran Desert? – ISBN 9781560373490 (2006)
Who Pooped in the Park? (Olympic National Park) – ISBN 9781560373377 (2006)
Who Pooped in the Park? (Acadia National Park) – ISBN 9781560373384 (2006)
Who Pooped in the Park? (Big Bend National Park) – ISBN 9781560373889 (2006)
Who Pooped in the Park? (Death Valley National Park) – ISBN 9781560374039 (2007)
Who Pooped in the Black Hills? – ISBN 9781560373872 (2007)
Who Pooped on the Colorado Plateau? – ISBN 9781560374305 (2008)
Who Pooped in the North Woods? – ISBN 9781560374343 (2008)
Who Pooped in the Cascades? – ISBN 9781560373629 (2013)

Closed captioning and related technologies

Inside Captioning – ISBN 9780965960908 (1997) – NCRA Press
Alternative Realtime Careers – ISBN 9781881859512 (2000) – NCRA Press
The Closed Captioning Handbook – ISBN 9780240805610 (2004) – Focal Press

Other nonfiction

The Court Reporter's Guide to Cyberspace – ISBN 9780965151801 (1996) with Richard A. Sherman
The Darkest Hour, with Fay Kuhlman
- 2nd edition: ISBN 9780965960915 (2003) – Carbon County Historical Society
- 3rd edition: Kindle & Apple ebook (2011) – Proseyr Publishing

References

External links

Official website for Gary D. Robson
Author page on GoodReads
Author page on Amazon
WorldCat page

Persondata
Name	Robson, Gary D.
Alternative names	Robson, Gary
Short description	Children's writer
Date of birth	1958
Place of birth	Poughkeepsie, New York
Date of death
Place of death

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