Bio
Heather Cason Carver is a native of
Coffee County. She is an alumna of
South Georgia College (SGC) where she earned an AS degree. She
continued her education at Georgia Southern University (GSU) where she
earned her B.S. and M.S. in biology. In 2005 she was accepted for an
internship with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service as a part of an
ongoing sea turtle protection effort for loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) in Georgia. Mrs.
Carver served in this position from 2005 to 2007. Concomitantly she
attended graduate school where she received a graduate assistantship
and
taught environmental biology labs at GSU. Beginning in 2008
through 2009 she worked with the South Carolina Department of Natural
Resources as a part of a federally funded in-water sea turtle abundance
survey. Mrs. Carver began teaching biology courses at South Georgia College in
2009 and at Waycross College in 2010. She continued teaching at South Georgia
State College (SGSC) after consolidation of the two institutions in 2013. Currently Mrs. Carver
teaches biology courses on the Douglas and Waycross campus of SGSC, and she is continuing her education,
completing criteria to earn the
RD credential.
Interests: conservation, food &
nutrition,
population ecology, genealogy,
animal rights, vegetarianism, veganism, environmental science,
sustainability.
Must see:
Forks Over Knives, The End
of the Line, Tapped,
The Cove,
Blackfish,
Seeds of Freedom.
Must read: Breaking the Food Seduction
(watch author Dr.
Neal Barnard on YouTube), Outliers, Vegan
Freak,
In Defense
of Food, The Language of Life.
