Robert Thorson

Professor of Geology

Robert Thorson, professor of geology with an interest in archaeology, studies the historic landscape, including New England’s stone walls. “Most of the landscape history can be sleuthed out of stone walls if you’re careful,” he says. An understanding of the landscape is critical because physical geology is at the center of global change, he says.

Podcast

http://www.thor.uconn.edu/

To hear an NPR interview with Prof. Thorson, go to here