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Michelle Schuman is an Ecologist specializing in wetland science and environmental policy with over four decades of experience in Alaska. She has worked in the private sector developing environmental impact statements and conducting field surveys from the northern tundra to the rainforest of southeast Alaska. As an Oil Spill Ecologist for the State of Alaska, her most notable and arduous accomplishment was acting as a first responder on the Exxon Oil Spill, analyzing one of the most devastating and long-term man-caused disasters in North American history. She recently retired as the Ecologist for the USDA after twenty-two years where she is well known for her expertise in wetland science and environmental policy. She published her memoir, The Understory: A Female Environmentalist in the Land of The Midnight Sun in January 2022. She recently was awarded the First Place Journey Award at the Chanticleer International Awards for Overcoming Adversity and the 2023 Independent Press Distinguished Favorite in Environment. She has finished her second novel, an environmental thriller which she hopes will be released within 2024.

May 22, 2024

Forging into the Wilderness as an Environmental Scientist

Michelle Schuman is a retired ecologist who specialized in wetland science and environmental policy in Alaska for more than four decades. Part of her work in Alaska included acting as a first responder at the Exxon oil spill…