J. Scott Turner

J. Scott Turner earned a bachelor's degree from University of California, Santa Cruz. From there, he went on to obtain advanced degrees in Zoology from Colorado State University in Fort Collins. Since then, he has been struggling to get back west, but his career keeps pushing him east.

Since 1990, he has been on the faculty of a small forestry college in upstate New York, and resides in the small town of Tully, in a large renovated farmhouse with his wife Debbie, and for many years, his two children, Jackie and Emma, now launched. They have co-habited their house with several animals. He venture's regularly to southern Africa (South Africa and Namibia) for his research.