Curtis Bohlen is an ecologist with a lifelong interest in all things aquatic and semi-aquatic. He is the Executive Director of the Casco Bay Estuary Partnership at the University of Southern Maine. Curtis has worked as a restoration ecologist with Trout Unlimited in Augusta, his past peripatetic, interdisciplinary academic life included a stint as a Congressional Science Fellow on Capitol Hill, a period working on ecological economics at the University of Maryland, and eight years at the Environmental Studies Department of Bates College In his spare time he reads to his kids and rows on the Royal River.