Dennis Paulson has taught university and adult-education courses about natural history for fifty-two years while living in Seattle. His last position was as the Director of the Slater Museum of Natural History at the University of Puget Sound. Dennis has written over ninety scientific papers and ten books, including Birds of Puget Sound: Coast to Cascades, Shorebirds of the Pacific Northwest, and Shorebirds of North America: The Photographic Guide. He has traveled on all the continents to observe and photograph birds and is also a world dragonfly expert.