| Julianne Baker, M.A. (Snowshoeing the History of Yellowstone )
moved to Gardiner, Montana, after more than 20 years visiting Yellowstone to hike, backpack, kayak, and ski. She retired from teaching in Michigan, where she taught environmental science, and now is a resident instructor for the Yellowstone Association Institute. She is a graduate of the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS), and holds certifications with Wilderness Medicine Institute, National Association for Interpretation, Leave No Trace, and Professional Ski Instructors of America.
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| Shauna Baron (Lamar Valley Wolf Week; Lamar Valley Wolf Week; Lamar Valley Wolf Week; Lamar Valley Wolf Week)
holds a B.S. in biology, and has more than 12 years experience studying large and small carnivores, including wolves, bears, fishers, and bobcats. She was an educator for the Colorado-based Mission Wolf captive wolf program, a biologist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Red Wolf Project in North Carolina, a scat researcher for the University of Vermont, and a volunteer with the Yellowstone Wolf Project. Shauna is a resident instructor for the Institute.
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Brad Bulin, M.S. (Summer Wildlife Watching; The Wolves of Yellowstone ; Food for the Masses: Researching How Yellowstone’s Wolves Affect Scavengers; Food for the Masses: Researching How Yellowstone’s Wolves Affect Scavengers; Lamar Valley Wolf Week; Lamar Valley Wolf Week; Lamar Valley Wolf Week; Lamar Valley Wolf Week) is a wildlife biologist with more than 10 years’ experience teaching science at the K-12 and college levels and conducting extensive field research on carnivores, raptors, amphibians, and plants. In addition to being an instructor for the Institute, Brad spends considerable time in Yellowstone as an amateur videographer.
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| George Bumann, M.S. (The Wolves of Yellowstone ; Autumn Wildlife Watching ; The Wolves of Yellowstone; Watching Winter Wildlife) can draw, paint, describe, and teach about all aspects of Yellowstone National Park’s ecology. He has a degree in wildlife ecology and experience teaching field biology, ornithology, dendrology, mammalogy, drawing, and field journaling. His art and writing have appeared in popular and scientific publications. His bronze sculptures can be found in collections across the United States, England, and in the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson, WY.
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Colleen E. Curry, M.A. (The Wonderland Collections: Up Close and Personal ) is the supervisory museum curator at Yellowstone National Park where she oversees park’s museum program, the archives, and the research library. She planned and supervised moving the park’s 5.3 million item collection to the new Heritage and Research Center, which opened in 2005. Before coming to Yellowstone, she was curator at other National Park Service sites and at the U.S. Supreme Court.
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| Terry Donnelly (Winter Landscape Photography) is an award-winning professional landscape and nature photographer with over 30 years of experience. Terry’s photography is featured in books, magazines, and calendars by many prominent publishers, among them The Audubon Society, Sierra Club Books, National Geographic Books, Brown Trout, The Wilderness Society, and The Nature Conservancy. Fine art prints of his photographs are held in private and corporate collections across the country.
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Jamie Farrell (The Grand Tour of Yellowstone Geology) is an advanced PhD student at the University of Utah. He has worked for seven years on research on the geology and geophysics of Yellowstone, specializing in earthquakes and ground deformation. He participates in outreach of scientific information to the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory and to the public. In addition to spending many weeks in the park each year doing field research, he has led numerous field trips in the Yellowstone area. Jamie lived in West Yellowstone and worked as a fly-fishing guide in and around the park prior to moving to his current home in Utah.
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| Gary Ferguson (Writing the Wild) has written for dozens of national magazines, from Outside to Vanity Fair, and is the author of 15 books on nature and science. Hawks Rest: A Season in the Remote Heart of Yellowstone was the first nonfiction book in history to win both the Pacific Northwest Booksellers and Mountains and Plains Booksellers awards. Gary coauthored Decade of the Wolf: Returning the Wild to Yellowstone with wolf project director Douglas Smith. His latest book is The Great Divide: The Rocky Mountains in the American Mind.
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Duncan Foley, Ph.D. (Photographing Yellowstone’s Thermals ) has been teaching in Yellowstone for more than 30 years. He guides students among the ever-changing and fascinating hydrothermal features, and teaches about the volcano that fuels them and how to photograph them. A professor of geosciences at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington, he is the author of Yellowstone’s Geysers and Other Hydrothermal Features.
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| Jim Garry, M.S. (The Bison of Yellowstone ; Day Hiking the Wild Yellowstone: Northern Range Area ; Northeast Corner Backpack Expedition: Cooke City to Gardiner the Hard Way; Fall on the Northern Range ; Coyote and Raven: Two Full of Facts and Folklore; Yellowstone’s Winter Serengeti) is a naturalist and folklorist who works in the area where natural history, human history, folklore, and myth overlap—the rich soil that grows stories. He’s spent a good bit of the last four decades in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, collecting stories from people and critters. His books include This Ol’ Drought Ain’t Broke Us Yet and The First Liar Never Has a Chance.
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Cindy Goeddel (Digital Photography and Workflow: Winter in Yellowstone) is a photographer, naturalist, and digital workflow expert in Bozeman, Montana, whose photographs have been published commercially and editorially and won international awards. Her fine art images are in numerous private collections. She assists Yellowstone photographer Tom Murphy and leads tours for his company, Wilderness Photography Expeditions. She also teaches aspiring and professional photographers digital photography asset management and workflow using Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop.
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