Eileen Visser is an Alaskan, having grown up in Valdez in a log cabin with no road access, electricity, running water or telephone (until 16 yrs old). Her undergraduate studies were in Biology at University of Notre Dame with summers at UNDERC field station in Land O'Lakes, WI, researching mosquitoes and dragonflies. Her MS was in Biological Oceanography at North Carolina State in Raleigh with fieldwork in the Chesapeake Bay at Virginia Institute of Cap: 20 Cap: 60 Marine Science working on the effect of eelgrass habitats on blue crabs. Her Ph.D. work was in Aquatic and Fisheries Sciences at the University of Washington, Seattle, looking at post-settlement juvenile Dungeness crab, followed by a project with the Army Corps of Engineers.

She currently teaches natural history and ecology of ADKs, Natural World, and General Biology at SLU and is a certified EMT and member of the Parishville Dive & Rescue teams.