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Sam Jansen (Grand Canyon River Guides)

began his Grand Canyon career as a Hydrologic Technician for the U.S. Geological Survey in 1990. During the Glen Canyon Environmental Study (GCES), from 1992 to 1996, he worked as a Hydrologist on sediment transport and other projects in the Canyon. He became a Grand Canyon river guide in 1993 and started working full seasons, April through October, in 1996.
Sam has come to know the twists and turns of the Colorado River, and its beaches and side canyons, very well. He has also spent a part of each summer guiding on wilderness rivers in Alaska, and has boated a variety of rivers in Washington, Idaho, California and Arizona.
Sam is a past president and board member of Grand Canyon River Guides, a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting the Grand Canyon and helping people have the best possible river experience.
Sam has filled the off-river seasons with work as a computer programmer, database developer, and ski patroller. He graduated from the Zaki Gordon Institute for Independent Filmmaking in 2006 and is currently a documentary filmmaker specializing in movies that explore the spaces where the natural world meets human history and politics. Sam studied Creative Writing and Geology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Arizona, and received a bachelor of science degree in Geosciences from the University of Arizona.

Sam Jansen (Grand Canyon River Guides)
Sam's been the AMWG representative for GCRG since February of 2010.
Grand Canyon River Guides is a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting the Grand Canyon and helping people have the best possible river experience. Sam was president of GCRG from 9/07-8/08 and a member of the board for two years before that.
Sam has been a guide in the Grand Canyon since 1993. He currently rows boats for Canyon Explorations/Expeditions, and has at times worked for Grand Canyon Youth and OARS.
Sam is also a long-time Alaska river guide, mostly working on the Alsek and Tatshenshini Rivers for Mountain Travel Sobek.
Sam began his Grand Canyon career as a Hydrologic Technician for the U.S. Geological Survey in 1990. He worked as a Hydrologist on sediment transport studies and other projects in the canyon and elsewhere in Arizona from 1992 to 1996.
Over the years, Sam has filled the off-river seasons with work as a computer programmer, database developer, and ski patroller. He graduated from the Zaki Gordon Film Institute in 2006 and is currently a documentary filmmaker specializing in movies that explore where the natural world meets human history and politics. His company is Rocketbox Productions, LLC.
Sam grew up in Flagstaff, Arizona. He studied creative writing and geology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Arizona and received a bachelor of science degree in Geosciences from the U of A.

Sam Jansen