Beyond the Amazon: The Pantanal of Brazil – Presented by Nancy E. Muleady-Mecham, Ph.D.

A look at the largest wetland on the planet, its natural history and ecology.

Doc Nancy is an Adjunct Professor of biology at Northern Arizona University and Columbia College, Sonora as well as a Visiting Lecturer for the University of Virginia Semester At Sea Program where she taught biology around the world. Doc Nancy was selected by the United States as a Fulbright Scholar and traveled to the Russian Federation to teach at Gorno-Altaisk State University in southwest Siberia and to conduct research in remote protected areas. As a retired National Park Ranger Naturalist and in Protection, she worked in numerous national Parks throughout the U.S.

When not working on her research on Giant Sequoias she loves to backpack. She leads High Sierra backcountry seminars on horseback for Rock Creek Pack Station. She has completed solo hikes of the John Muir and High Sierra Trails through the Sierra Nevada, hiked through the Alps on The Haute Route from Chamonix to Zermatt, and is a Pacific Crest Trail section hiker.

She is the author of several books, and lives in the Sierra Nevada with her family. She teaches Biology for Community Education through Columbia College, including the California Nature Series and Adventures on Planet Earth series via Zoom in the Fall.

Doc Nancy has been appointed by the Secretary of the Interior of the United States to the Central California Resource Advisory Council for the Bureau of Land management for a second three-year position in 2023. She also serves as a RAC Member for the US Forest Service.