Because both of her parents were biologists, Angela E. Boag was essentially “raised on David Attenborough,” she says. And she consequently developed a love of nature and ecosystems. At Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada, Boag earned a bachelor’s degree in biology in 2010, and followed that up with a master’s degree in forestry from the University of British Columbia and a doctorate in environmental studies from the University of Colorado Boulder, where she researched climate change effects on forests in and around the US Rocky Mountains. After graduating, she became a policy advisor for climate change, forest management, and energy at the Colorado Department of Natural Resources.
Nathalie Isabelle Chardon has also always been fascinated with biology, but it wasn’t until she attended field classes while studying abroad in Chile during her junior year at the University of California, Berkeley, that she began to focus on ecology. She became curious ...
