Warren Hatch

 Warren A. Hatch grew up in Portland, Oregon, and was educated at Catlin Gabel School, Amherst College, and Portland State University. Warren has been a public school substitute teacher for more than 35 years, eleven of those years in Los Angeles, the remaining 24+ years in Portland, Oregon. He has used superb German-made Eschenbach illuminated magnifiers to provide students (mostly in the elementary grades) with the opportunity to see (and draw) insects and spiders (later setting them free) for more than 30 years. Warren also authored videotapes and DVDs of views through a microscope, including a series titled What’s That Through the Microscope? which he often shared in a classroom setting, and which many students found engaging and challenging! In 2003 Warren was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, which was founded in 1788 “for the cultivation of the Science of Natural History.” He appreciates the community of the Linnean Society. His 2006 DVD, In One Yard: Views Through a Microscope and Up Close, was chosen as “one of the best science films of 2006” by Science Books & Films, the review journal published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Washington, DC. His first book, In One Yard: Close to Nature (2015), received positive reviews in Choice, Science Books & Films, and Library Journal. Sir David Attenborough received a copy of the book and sent a handwritten note to Warren stating that “. . . I began to wonder whether I haven’t looked at my yard with the concentration and insight that you have. I must put that right. But not before I have spent more time studying your splendid book. It spurs me on.” Warren’s second book, In One Yard: Close to Nature Book 2 (2020), is the culmination of more than nine years of photographing and learning about diverse living organisms in his 1/6 acre (.07 hectare) urban yard in Portland, Oregon.