Philip Wheeler Conkling

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name = Philip W. Conkling

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birth_date = August 2
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education = Harvard, Yale School of Forestry
occupation = Founder & President of the Island Institute, Author
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children = 4 Sons, and 1 Step-Son

Philip Conkling is founder and President of the Island Institute, an organization with an ecological perspective which helps sustain island communities off the coast of Maine. Currently Conkling is leading and coordinating a $20 million capital campaign at the Island Institute to endow the core programs of the organization. Philip has four sons by his first wife Jamien Morehouse, who died of breast cancer. He lives with his family in the small coastal town of Camden, Maine.

Written works

* Islands in Time, A Natural and Cultural History of the Islands of the Gulf of Maine (1999)
* Lobsters Great and Small-How Fishermen and Scientists are Changing Our Understanding of a Maine Icon (2001)
* He also is the editor of From Cape Cod to the Bay of Fundy-An Environmental Atlas of the Gulf of Maine (1995).