2011 visiting faculty; Naturalist-artist David M. Carroll, who in 2006 was named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow, is the author of three acclaimed natural histories “The Year of the Turtle,” “Trout Reflections,” and “Swamp-Walker’s Journal.” The latter was awarded the John Burroughs medal for distinguished nature writing. This “wet-sneaker trilogy” was expanded to a quartet with the publication of his memoir, centered on his lifelong connection with turtles and their habitats, “Self-Portrait with Turtles.”
His fifth book, “Following the Water, a Hyrdromancer’s Notebook,” published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in August 2009, was awarded a National Book Foundation Finalist Medal in the nonfiction category.
In addition to his own field work, Carroll has conducted investigations for the endangered species programs of New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine, as well as for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the National Park Service. His fieldwork has been published in scientific journals, including Chelonian Conservation and Biology and Northeastern Naturalist.
Carroll and his work have been the subject of numerous articles and interviews, and his artwork has been widely exhibited. He is a lecturer and turtle and wetlands preservation advocate, and has received are the Environmental Merit Award from the U.S. EPA and the New Hampshire Audubon Society’s Tudor Richards Award.
Carroll is a graduate of the School of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University. He received an honorary doctorate of humane letters from the University of New Hampshire and an honorary master’s in environmental science from New England College.