ABOUT ISABELLE GROC

Isabelle Groc is a freelance writer and photographer based in Vancouver, British Columbia.

She has a Master's degree in Journalism from Columbia University, New York, where she specialized in photojournalism.

She has contributed to various publications including Canadian Wildlife, Canadian Geographic, High Country News, Planning, Granville, Liberation, and E/The Environmental Magazine.

She is a winner of the CBC David Suzuki 2005 Nature in Focus Environmental Photography Competition.

In 2006, she was awarded A Great Waters Institute Fellowship from the Institutes for Journalism and Natural Resources to study environmental issues affecting the Great Lakes Region, and in 2007 she won a Scripps Howard Institute on the Environment fellowship to examine environmental impacts in South Florida and the Everglades.