Tidal Wetlands Primer: An Introduction to Their Ecology, Natural History, Status, and Conservation

About the Author, Back Cover

Ralph W. Tiner was born in Stuttgart, Germany, and grew up in Somerville, New Jersey. He received degrees from the University of Connecticut and Harvard University. He has directed the National Wetlands Inventory (NWI) Program in the Northeast for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for over thirty-five years and has been an adjunct professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst for more than two decades. Tiner has written over 250 publications on a variety of wetland topics including two field guides published by the University of Massachusetts Press. His Field Guide to Nontidal Wetland Identification (1988) won the Blue Pencil Award from the National Association of Government Communicators for outstanding government publication. In Search of Swampland: A Wetland Sourcebook and Field Guide (1998) was named one of the Best Science Books for Junior High and High School Readers in Energy, Environment, and Natural Resources by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His “­ Geographically Isolated Wetlands of the United States” (2003) was recognized as one of the thirty most important papers for furthering the field of wetland science in the past thirty years by the Society of Wetland Scientists. Tiner lives with his wife, Barbara, and their children, Andrew, Avery, and­ Dillon, and Simon, his playful Westie, in Leverett, ­Massachusetts. “This page intentionally left blank” “This page intentionally left blank” ...