Charles Ernest Shaw was born November 20, 1932, in Brockton, Massachusetts and grew up in the neighboring town of Whitman where he graduated from Whitman High School in 1951.
He was enrolled at the University of New Hampshire in 1952 and graduated with a B. A. degree in geology in 1956.
Upon graduation, he was offered employment by the Groundwater Branch of the U. S. Geological Survey. He worked fulltime for the Survey for four years on ground water projects in the Appalachian Mountains in Alabama, Massachusetts and Connecticut. He continued those projects
part-time for six more years during and after graduate school at Brown University, where he completed his Ph.D. in structural and metamorphic geology in 1967.
Dr. Shaw taught geology at Windham College in Vermont from 1966 to 1973. In 1973, he joined Weaver Oil and Gas Corporation in Houston, Texas, where he lived and worked for fifteen years. From 1976 through 1988 Dr. Shaw was a consultant to oil companies committed to exploration in the Valley and Ridge Province of the Southern Appalachia Mountains.
He retired to Quintana Roo, Mexico with his partner, Kathryn S. Robinhawk, in 1988, where they presently live at Akumal.
From shortly after the founding of Centro Ecológico Akumal in 1993 until the present, he has worked on various ecologically-oriented projects dealing with ground water flow and water quality. From January, 2002 through January 2004 Charles was CEA's Executive Director, he has now returned to his passion as Scientific Director.
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