Robert Thorson

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Recent Highlight: My latest book review, the Library of America's Silent Spring & Other Writings on the Environment will soon be published by the journal Environmental History.

I wear different hats. My colleagues, students, readers, followers, audiences, and clients know me as a:

Professor of Geology at the University of Connecticut juggling teaching, scholarship, and service.
Author of seven trade and scholarly books, most recently The Guide to Walden Pond.
Journalist and science writer who recently retired from a 15-year stint at the Hartford Courant .
Coordinator of the Stone Wall Initiative, an online resource for New England.
Speaker and field trip leader for a range of topics, notably landscape history.
Consultant for diverse projects: field geo-forensics, museums, and public education.

Away from work, I'm a family man, friend, and solitary soul whose principal hobbies are Nature, reading, writing, cooking, and public television.

Photo by Kristine Thorson taken in Old Saybrook, CT with the state historian, Walter Woodword cropped out to the right.

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