LIFE & TIMES
BIOGRAPHY
SCOTT BISCHKE LIVES WITH his wife, Katie Gibson, in Bozeman, Montana. Along with
his writing career,
Scott has worked as a chemical engineering science researcher at three
national laboratories, as an environmental engineer for Hewlett-Packard, as the
lab director for the Yellowstone Ecological Research Center, and as a science and
technology writer and facilitator specializing in Greater Yellowstone Area science
and engineering issues.
Scott’s professional life has touched broadly on issues of resource management and
climate change.
He has led programs for materials reduction and recycling for a major manufacturing
plant, helped draft research plans and science agendas dealing with natural resource
constraints and climate change, and completed engineering projects and served on
an electronics industry professional technical advisory board scoped at reducing
global warming gases from wafer fabrication processes. Most recently Scott served
on the Mayor’s Task Force to draft Bozeman’s Climate Action Plan.
More personally, Scott and Katie have hiked, biked, and canoed in interesting places
far and wide,
including backpacking the length of the Continental Divide from Canada to Mexico,
and hiking and canoeing the length of the Yellowstone River. A common thread in
all of Scott and Katie’s travels has been their desire to immerse themselves in
the peace, solitude, and tranquility of the natural world. The couple seeks out
people, places, and activities that reinforce their desire to live a life filled
with positive energy. Perhaps more simply, they seek to live a life that reflects
their gratitude for being alive each and every day.
A SIMPLE GUY
BOOKS THAT MATTER
I am a reader, as well as a writer. I have a limited time each day, indeed in life,
and
I want the things I read to matter. Likewise, I want what I write to matter, to
have a reason
for being, to engage the reader. I believe that good story, crafted well, has the
power
to change the world.
I have published a number of popular press books, as described in this website.
Each
of my books, in its own way, presents a topic I found critically important
at the time I wrote it...and still do. From most recent to oldest, the books and
their reason for being are:
- * FISH TANK: A Fable for Our Times--natural resources and climate change
- * GOOD CAMEL, GOOD LIFE: Finding Enlightenment One Drop of Sweat at a Time--health,
yoga, spirituality, philosophy
- * CROSSING DIVIDES: A Couples' Story of Cancer, Hope, and Hiking Montana's Continental
Divide--health, nature,
wilderness, healing from cancer
- * TWO WHEELS AROUND NEW ZEALAND: A Bicycle Journey on Friendly Roads--travel, adventure,
escape, wilderness
Back to top