Biology Instructor · Alberta, Canada

NATASHA
PENTYLIUK

I teach university-level aquatic biology and ecology labs, where I get to introduce students to the incredible, messy, complicated world of living things. Outside the classroom I’m a search and rescue volunteer, an off-grid homesteader, a mum, and a casual artist who makes things for the joy of it. This is where all of those worlds live together.


The many hats

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Biology Instructor

I teach university-level aquatic biology and ecology labs — helping students fall in love with field and laboratory science, one water sample at a time.

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Search & Rescue

Volunteer with ground search and rescue. Getting people home safely is some of the most meaningful work I do.

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Off-Grid Homesteader

We live off the grid in Alberta — growing food, raising animals, generating our own power, and figuring it out as we go.

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Casual Artist

Paintings, illustrations, whatever strikes me. Not for any particular reason — just because making things is good for the soul.

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MSc Ecology

Graduate of the University of Alberta’s Green Lab and Fisheries and Aquatic Conservation Lab. The science brain never really turns off.

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Mum

Probably the most important hat. Everything else fits around this one.