Nathaniel T. Wheelwright

Nathaniel T. Wheelwright is Bass Professor of Natural Science, Emeritus, at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. He graduated from Yale University in 1975, earned his PhD at the University of Washington in 1982, and taught at the University of Florida and Cornell University before moving to Maine. In 2015, Nat won the Ecological Society of America's Odum Award for Excellence in Ecology Education. He has conducted long-term research on the ecology of tropical trees and boreal birds. He is the author (with Bernd Heinrich) of The Naturalist's Notebook (Storey Publishing, 2017) and (with Nalini Nadkarni) Monteverde: Ecology and Conservation of a Tropical Cloud Forest (Oxford University Press, 2000), and producer of the Nature Moments video series (https://research.bowdoin.edu/nature-moments/).