Carol Boggs is an evolutionary ecologist, who studies butterflies. She and her students have been doing research at RMBL since 1978. She focuses on plant-insect interactions, drivers of changes in insect population sizes, and butterfly behavior. Carol grew up in Austin, Texas, and both her undergraduate and doctoral degrees are from UT Austin. She spent a number of decades at Stanford University, before moving to the University of South Carolina in 2013 as Director of the School of the Earth, Ocean & Environment. Her research projects have carried her to Tromso, Norway; Costa Rica; Mexico; Peru; the Yukon and Alaska; and closer to home, to field sites in California, South Carolina and throughout the Gunnison Basin. When not chasing butterflies, she enjoys hiking, gardening and reading.