Brooke Marchant was born and raised in Bishop, CA. She has a deep passion for the ocean and all of the sea life, despite loving the mountains. She thoroughly enjoys spending time with her husband and family and all of her animals, including 3 dogs, 2 chickens, 2 tortoises, and 2 rats. Her special interests include small animal nursing, small animal emergency/critical care, dentistry, parasitological, and laboratory procedures, specifically clinical microbiology [citation].