Philip Conkling is the founder and former president of th
Island Institute
a membership-based nonprofit organization located in

Rockland, Maine Rockland is a city in Knox County, Maine, in the United States. As of the 2020 census, the town population was 6,936. It is the county seat of Knox County. The city is a popular tourist destination. It is a departure point for the Maine State ...

that serves as a voice for the balanced future of the islands and waters of the

Gulf of Maine The Gulf of Maine is a large gulf of the Atlantic Ocean on the east coast of North America. It is bounded by Cape Cod at the eastern tip of Massachusetts in the southwest and by Cape Sable Island at the southern tip of Nova Scotia in the northeast ...

, especially the 15 year-round island communities along the Maine coast. Conkling also serves as an alternate commissioner of the

Roosevelt Campobello International Park Roosevelt Campobello International Park preserves the house and surrounding landscape of the summer retreat of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt and their family. It is located on the southern tip of Campobello Island in the Canadian provi ...

, and is on the Maine state board of the Conservation Law Foundation. He lives in the small coastal town of

Camden, Maine Camden is a resort town in Knox County, Maine. The population was 5,232 at the 2020 census. The population of the town more than triples during the summer months, due to tourists and summer residents. Camden is a summer colony in the Mid-Coas ...

Written works

* ''The Fate of Greenland: Lessons from Abrupt Climate Change'' (2011) co-authored with

Richard Alley Richard Blane Alley (born 18 August 1957) is an American geologist and Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences at Pennsylvania State University. He has authored more than 240 refereed scientific publications about the relationships between Earth's cryo ...

, Wallace Broecker and George Denton, with photographs by Gary Comer

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* ''Lobsters Great and Small-How Fishermen and Scientists are Changing Our Understanding of a Maine Icon'' (2001) * He also is the editor of ''From Cape Cod to the Bay of Fundy-An Environmental Atlas of the Gulf of Maine'' (1995). *
Islands in Time, A Natural and Cultural History of the Islands of the Gulf of Maine
' (published first in 1981, revised in 1999, with a new, expanded edition published in 2011) * ''Green Islands Green Sea: A Guide to Foraging on the Islands of Maine'' (1980) *

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