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Recent Highlight: My article in The Conversation (Academic rigor, journalistic flair), "What Walden can tell us about social distancing..." was published March 26, 2020 and republished on PBS. Listen to this followup radio interview

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 with 14-years as an Op-Ed columnist for the Hartford Courant.
Coordinator of the Stone Wall Initiative, an online resource about New England's fieldstone walls.
Speaker and field trip leader for a range of topics, notably landscape history.
Consultant for diverse projects: 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 NPR. Thankfully, I can walk to work through the woods, above a pond, and over a stream.

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