Nancy grew up in rural Michigan and graduated from Kalamazoo College with a BA in Biology. She earned a PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from University of Arizona, where she studied how small plant-­‐eating mammals (pikas, pocket gophers, voles) affected the diversity and species of plant communities, especially in subalpine meadows. She was a post-­‐doctoral researcher at University of Minnesota with a Long Term Ecological Research project, then joined the faculty of Idaho State University, where she was a founder of the Center for Ecological Research and Education. Her research is on ecological diversity and, more recently, human ecology and the ways in people have influenced landscapes and biological diversity. She has studied the ecology and diversity of sagebrush steppe, deserts, old-­‐fields, alpine, subalpine, and montane areas and, since 2004, the human ecology of the northern Gulf of Alaska region. Her interests in Alaska are particularly in landscape legacies, food webs, and sustainable resource use. Nancy also is interested in the use of ecology in land, water, fish, and wildlife management, and served on the Independent Scientific Review Panel and Independent Science Advisory Board for the Northwest Power and Conservation Council, NOAA Fisheries, and the Columbia River Tribes for 16 years. While here Nancy will be working on writing for publication some of the research she has done in the Sanak Archipelago and lower Alaska Peninsula region of Alaska. She will be the morning interview on KCAW Sitka, Monday morning August 25, and will give a public presentation on her Sanak Island work as the first Natural History Series talk of the season. Nancy will also give presentations at Sitka High School and Mt Edgecumbe High School. (August - September 2014) KCAW INTERVIEW