Walter L. Meagher
Walter studied botany at the Horticultural School of the Barnes Foundation, Lower Merion, PA, with Edgar T. Wherry; the University of Michigan, with Warren H. Wagner; and the Kellogg Biological Station, with Steve Tonsor. Meagher has published several scientific papers, including a field study for the Michigan Nature Conservancy (Vascular Flora of the Augusta Floodplain Reserve published in The Michigan Botanist, 1992); Vegetation and Habitat on a Caribbean Island and Caribbean Coastal and Hillside Vegetation of St. Kitts, West Indies, both published in Phytologia in 1997. He is a regular contributor to the Oxford Magazine (Oxford University publication); the nature columnist for The Deddington News (Oxfordshire); the author of Portrait of a River (Oxford, 2005), and of the first complete inventory of the flora of El Charco (second edition, Instituto de Ecologia A.C., Patzcuaro, Michoacan, 2007). Meagher is a life member of the ASPT (American Society of Plant Taxonomists) and a member of the BSBI (Botanical Society of the British Isles). He has lived in San Miguel for 7 years.
Wayne Colony & Walter Meagher
Wayne Colony
Wayne studied at the University of Washington, obtaining a BS in Geology, and at the University of Arizona, where he earned an MS in Geology, specializing in volcanology. His career spans 30 years as a professor of geology - lately at Clark College, Vancouver, WA. Research interests in volcanology led to summertime studies far afield and scientific papers on the Galapagos, Mt. St. Helens, and Pacific Ocean seafloor volcanism. Visiting El Charco as often as five mornings a week, Colony, with his wife Susan, made the first detailed inventory of both resident and migratory birds. Taking up nature photography in retirement, the birds, butterflies, damselflies, dragonflies and flowering plants of El Charco have been documented through his lens. Colony is a popular lecturer and life member of the GSA (Geological Society of America), and a full-time resident of San Miguel since 2003.