Michelle Schuman is a retired ecologist who specialized in wetland science and environmental policy in Alaska for more than four decades. Part of her work in Alaska included acting as a first responder at the Exxon oil spill, a major environmental disaster that occurred in 1989. She is also the author of a novel called “Jaquar Moon,” and a memoir titled, “The Understory: A Female Environmentalist in the Land of The Midnight Sun.” In addition to her first two books, she has finished another novel, an environmental thriller that she hopes to release this year. In our interview, she discusses all of these aspects of her life and more.