Michael R. Wing earned his Ph.D. in earth sciences at the University of California at San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He is currently a science teacher at Sir Francis Drake High School in Anselmo, California. Wing's research projects include running North America's highest altitude garden; designing a desert microbiology project that has been deployed on five continents; a study of elephant seals; and several other projects. Wing has done fieldwork in the Galapagos Islands, Costa Rica, Finland, Alaska, the Canadian Arctic, Namibia, and the United Arab Emirates. He has worked in collaboration with NASA, the University of California, the Mars Institute, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the National Park Service. Wing lives in Kentfield, California, with his wife and children.
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