Dr Susan K. Jacobson is a professor in the Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation and the director of the Program for Studies in Tropical Conservation at the University of Florida. She teaches courses on environmental communication and natural resource management, and conducts research on the human dimensions of wildlife conservation. She earned her Ph.D. degree in resource ecology from Duke University and has published over a hundred journal articles, book chapters, reports, and books dealing with environmental management education and natural resource conservation in the U.S.,