Scientist working at Glacier NP (US): "I have gone from being an ecologist to a coroner"

Diana Six’s love of the outdoors began before she could form words, run, or collect the bugs and fungi that were precious to her as a child. A tough home life eventually led her to drop out of school and live on the streets. But biology classes in community college helped Six discover her calling in studying various forms of life. “They took me right back to how I was as a kid,” she says.

Now an entomologist at the University of Montana, she has spent the last 30 years researching how bark beetles are decimating pine forests. But a constant, haunting depression has taken over her life.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/21/climate-crisis-glacier-diana-six-ecologist