Author: Pat Foster-Turley

Pat Foster-Turley is an international biodiversity specialist with a Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of Florida and more than 30 years of international work assignments throughout Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). She has lived in Fernandina Beach with her husband Bucko for more than 20 years. Since 2005, Pat has written a local wildlife/nature/travel column, “Wildways," while still leading short term international biodiversity assessment teams.