Biographical Sketch

Bruce G. Marcot is a Research Wildlife Ecologist with the Ecosystems Processes Research Program, USDA Forest Service, in Portland, Oregon, USA. He holds a B.S. and M.S. in Natural Resources from Humboldt State University, California, and a Ph.D. in Wildlife Science from Oregon State University. He participates in projects dealing with the analysis of wildlife population viability, assessment of biodiversity, and ecologically sustainable land-use planning. He has worked or traveled in Russia, China, India, Mexico, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Bolivia, Germany, Bahamas, Virgin Islands, New Zealand & sub-Antarctica, Australia, southern Africa, Canada, the Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii, Mongolia, Galapagos, and lots elsewhere.

His interests -- some of which are represented on these pages -- include traveling & camping, archeoastronomy, classical music composition, birding, pen and ink artwork, photography, poetry, writing, motorcycling, linguistics, epistemology & ontology, computers & artificial intelligence programming, and other realms.

He can be reached here via e-mail.