Writer, naturalist and activist Susan Cerulean’s nature memoir Coming to Pass: Florida’s Coastal Islands in a Gulf of Change (University of Georgia Press, 2015) received a Gold Medal in the categor

Dr. Kristen Guest's research interests are in nineteenth century theatre and Victorian popular culture.  "I have published on Victorian melodrama, cannibalism, and on popular authors such as M

John Maxwell Coetzee was born in Cape Town, South Africa, on 9 February 1940, the elder of two children. His mother was a primary school teacher. His father was trained as an attorney, but practice

My scientific work has primarily focused on understanding the phenomenon of swarm intelligence (SI):  the solving of cognitive problems by a group of individuals who pool their knowledge and p

Daniel S. Milo is Chair of Natural Philosophy at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and has been a visiting professor at the University of Chicago; Mills College; the Univers

Hello! I am a historian of the life, earth, and environmental sciences, the history of museums, and the history of capitalism, especially in nineteenth and early twentieth century North America.

Ken Thompson is an independent senior research fellow in the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences at the University of Sheffield and is former director of the Buxton Climate Change Impacts Labor

Christina Harrison is the editor of Kew Magazine. She trained as an ecologist and botanical horticulturalist and has an MA in Garden History, for which she specialized in the trees at the Royal Bot

Elizabeth A. Dauncey is a freelance plant toxicologist. She is the coauthor of Plants That Kill: A Natural History of the World’s Most Poisonous Plants (Princeton) and the author of Poisonous Plant

I'm the principal botanist with the Royal Horticultural Society and the editor of The Plantsman. He has worked on several books, including the RHS Plant Finder and the most recent edition of The Hi

Eva Meijer is an artist, writer, philosopher and singer-songwriter.

Meijer wrote eleven books and her work has been translated into eighteen languages. Her first novel Het schuwste dier (Prom

David J Schmidly was born and raised on a cotton farm in west Texas and was the first member of his family to graduate from college. In 1966 he received a B.A. degree and in 1968 an M.S. degree, bo

Broadly, I am interested in the evolution of social and antipredator behavior and the ramifications mechanisms of behavior have for higher level ecological processes and for wildlife conservation.

 B. C. Robison has over 20 years of experience in human health and ecological risk assessment, toxicology, site investigation and remediation and litigation support. He holds a BA magna cum la

I am an evolutionary ornithologist with broad interests in avian biology. I have done research on diverse topics, including avian phylogenetics, behavioral evolution, feather evolution and developm

I write and produce videos, podcasts, and multimedia stories for Nebraska Public Media, the state's PBS & NPR station. I also freelance, producing work for All Things Considered, Latino USA, th

My background is in biomedical research. With a BSc (Hons) in Biological Sciences and a PhD in Immunology (Imperial College, London University), I spent ten happy and productive years in London lab

I am a specialist on the taxonomy of the nightshade family, Solanaceae, and have spent much time in the field in Central and South America collecting plants. My particular focus of research is the

Gilbert P. Waldbauer (1928- ) served as Professor of Entomology (1960-1995) at the University of Illinois. He studied agricultural pests, pest management, mimicry, and insect mating but he also wro

Ross Bayton is a horticulturalist and freelance editor. His books include RHS Genealogy for Gardeners: Plant Families Explained and Explored, RHS Gardening School: Everything You Need to Know to Ga