Tom Wessels

Tom Wessels is a terrestrial ecologist and a professor at Antioch University New England in the Department of Environmental Studies, where he founded a master's program in conservation biology. He is an author of three books and is an active environmentalist.

Professional Biography

Wessels earned a BS in wildlife biology from the University of New Hampshire and a MA in ecology at the University of Colorado. Wessels went directly into academia, beginning with a post at the now defunct Windham College, in Putney, Vermont. In 1978 he became an adjunct faculty member at Antioch University New England and was instrumental in developing numerous courses in the yet very young Environmental Studies Department. He became a core faculty member at Antioch in 2000.

In addition to teaching at Antioch, Wessels has traveled on expedition to Iceland with Haraldur Sigurdsson. He chaired the Science department for ten years at The Putney School, a boarding high school in Putney, Vermont. He served as the chair of the Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation, a foundation that provides grants and fellowships to promote environmental leadership. Since 1995 he has served as an ecological consultant for the Rainforest Alliance SmartWood Program in the Northeastern United States.

Books

*Gardner, Blake and Tom Wessels. "Untamed Vermont" (Thistle Hill Publications, 2003). ISBN 0970551126
*Wessels, Tom. "The Granite Landscape: A Natural History of America's Mountain Domes, From Acadia to Yosemite" (The Countryman Press, 2001). ISBN 0881504297
*Wessels, Tom. "The Myth of Progress: Toward a Sustainable Future" (University of Vermont Press, 2006). ISBN 1584654953
*Wessels, Tom. "Reading the Forested Landscape: A Natural History of New England" (The Countryman Press, 1997). ISBN 0881503789

References

*Moose Dung Gazette: [http://www.jackmtn.com/simplog/?p=41 ESSP Attends Tom Wessels’ Talk]
*Unity College [http://www.unity.edu/Inauguration/KeynoteSpeaker.aspx Keynote Speaker]
*University Press of New England site for [http://www.dartmouth.edu/~upne/1-58465-495-3.html The Myth of Progress]
*Wessels' Antioch University New England [http://www.antiochne.edu/directory/employee_detail.cfm?ID=0008722 website]
* [http://www.medomakcamp.com/wessels_bio.php Wessels' Bio] on Medomak Camp website

External links

* [http://www.medomakcamp.com/ Medomak Camp]
* [http://www.rainforest-alliance.org/programs/forestry/smartwood/index.html Rainforest Alliance SmartWood Program]
* [http://www.switzernetwork.org/ Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation]
* [http://www.wholeterrain.org/bio.cfm?Contributor_ID=285 Whole Terrain] link to Wessels' articles published in Whole Terrain