After a year spent in such diverse places as the Falkland Islands, Tierra del Fuego, the Aboriginal settlement of Kowanyama in Australia, the Chatham Islands of New Zealand, and the Inuit settlement of Kimmirut in Baffin Island, Canada, he enrolled at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned a master's degree in Geography and wrote a thesis titled "The Biogeography of Striated Caracaras (Phalcoboenus australis)".
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Meiburg has a bachelor's degree in English, with a minor in Religion, from the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, and received a Thomas J. Watson fellowship to study daily life in remote human communities.
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Jonathan Meiburg, born in Baltimore, Maryland, on March 1st, 1976, is a multi-instrumentalist musician and the lead singer and songwriter for Shearwater (2001–present), a band he co-founded with Will Sheff in Austin, Texas.
Jonathan Swift | Jonathan Ross | Goodluck Jonathan | Jonathan Demme | Jonathan Lethem | Jonathan | Jonathan Richman | Jonathan Coulton | Jonathan Safran Foer | Jonathan King | Jonathan Rhys Meyers | Jonathan Zittrain | Jonathan Silverman | Jonathan Nott | Jonathan Kaplan | Jonathan Harris | Jonathan Cain | Jonathan Butler | Jonathan Borofsky | Jonathan Aitken | Jonathan Wells | Jonathan Tweet | Jonathan Pryce | Jonathan Pearce | Jonathan Dimbleby | Jonathan Blow | Jonathan Wells (intelligent design advocate) | Jonathan Pollard | Jonathan Harr | Jonathan Cape |
Jonathan Meiburg began Whu Gnu out of two previous musical ensembles: 'Mysterious Union' and the Lawrence Dale Bell High School Jazz Band.