Eizabeth Webb earned a BA in biology from Dartmouth College and a PhD in biogeography from Clark University. Her doctoral research involved a comparison of the effects of forest fire and clearcut logging in northwestern Ontario on reindeer lichens, the main late winter fodder of woodland caribou. She has taught biology and environmental science to students from diverse backgrounds in a variety of
classroom and field-based settings including teaching International Baccalaureate (IB) biology and environmental studies at an international school in France, teaching introductory environmental science at Kenyon College, introducing fifth-graders to winter ecology at a residential outdoor school in New Hampshire, and leading courses and serving as resident naturalist in at an Outward Bound School in northwestern Ontario. Most recently, she has been teaching Biology and Honors Biology at the Hotchkiss School. She splits her time between Brunswick, Maine, and Lakeville, Connecticut. She enjoys walking her dogs, hiking, whitewater canoeing, sea kayaking, and just about any other outdoor pursuit.