Nancy Gruver Van Wagoner is a Canada-based artist and professor of geology, working at the interface between art and science. With her work she shares a lifetime of exploring and imaging the planet for her research to create new ways of understanding Earth and life in all its dimensions. Her work has been exhibited internationally including shows in Australia, New York, Vancouver, and Los Angeles. She has studied volcanoes globally, and taught internationally. Gruver Van Wagoner holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the School of Visual Arts in New York, and a PhD in Geology from Dalhousie University, Canada.