Does anyone have any information on Author Merebeth Switzer?

Question

I need some information like where she is from? Maybe when she was born? where she lives now?
My son needs to write a few sentences about this author for school.

Answer 1

Merebeth Switzer is the National Education Coordinator, Ducks Unlimited Canada & Acting Project Manager, Ontario Education for Sustainable Development Working Group.

Merebeth Switzer has been involved in environmental education, interpretation and communications work for over 30 years. Her diverse career has included work with national and provincial parks, conservation authorities, the Toronto Zoo, OWL/TV, the International Development Research Centre, Canada’s model forests, the Parliament of Canada, museums and other organizations.

She has been involved in many initiatives including the integration of environment and culture at historic sites in eastern Canada, the creation of the IDRC Summer Institute to link educators to issues of sustainable development, and the creation of training materials to help frontline forest workers understand new practices relating to the protection of species at risk and other environmental management issues.

Merebeth has written extensively on a variety of environmental topics and is the author/co-author of 21 natural history books for children as well as an award-winning children’s activity book on climate change.

According to the Ducks Unlimited Canada website, Switzer lives in Barrie, Ontario, Canada.

Answer 2

I checked in a number of databases that contain biographical information about authors and came up with nothing. I even checked the website for Scholastic (her publisher) to see if they supplied any information. They did not. You can see a list of books that she wrote or co-wrote by going to www.worldcat.org and inserting her name (switzer, merebeth). Did the book your son read have any iformation? Actually, I would not be surprised if there is nothing there either. My guess (and it's only a guess) is that she worked for Scholastic in the 1980s and 1990s as sort of a staff writer. She seems to have been connected with a series of books about animals--chipmunks, pandas, penguins, etc. I hope this helps.

I just saw cafelady's answer, and that looks to be the most useful info.