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 Urbanisme, Esprit, Urban Technology, Planning, the Georgia Straight, 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.