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Recent Highlight:  My first piece in The Conversation (Academic rigor, journalistic flair), Thoreau's Great Insight for the Anthropocene: Wildness is an Attitude, not a Place, was published March 8, 2019.

 

 


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. 

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