Bob Nisbet built on the strong foundation provided in his Forest Management training at HSU to complete an MS in Ecology from San Diego State University in 1969 in Chaparral Ecology and a PhD in Physiological Desert Plant Ecology at Arizona State University in 1972. After many years of research in modeling forest growth under simulated global warming conditions at UC-Santa Barbara (UCSB), he entered the new developing field of Data Mining at AT&T in 1994, focusing on the use of machine learning algorithms to predict customer behavior actions in Telecommunications companies. He retired from Santa Barbara Bank & Trust in 2009 as an Assistant VP of Technical Services, and promptly became bored. He spent the next 10 years teaching Data Science subjects remotely to international students in the UC-Irvine Data Science Certificate Program (a professional certificate comparable to about a half of an MS program). He is retired (finally) in Goleta, CA, near UCSB. He is the coauthor of 3 books in Data Science for Academic Press.