In July 2025 I decided to upgrade my website with the help of Bri Diaz in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. So I’m now in the process of deleting, updating, and rewriting many of the pages, some of which have been untouched since 2013. Please bear with me until late August, when the new semester begins.
One of the additions to the site is to create a tab on the homepage titled “Earthly Matters,” which will be my site for random blog postings about whatever catches my attention at the time.
Image of UConn students walking the trail at Walden Pond State Reservation in Concord, MA on one of my field trips. The trail is cut into steep collapse slope at the angle of repose for sand and gravel. This is the table of contents page for the first ever Guide to Walden Pond, which I published in 2018 to commemorate the bicentennial of Thoreau’s birth year.