Philip Wheeler Conkling

Philip Wheeler Conkling is the founder and former president of the Island Institute, a membership-based nonprofit organization located in Rockland, Maine that serves as a voice for the balanced future of the islands and waters of the Gulf of Maine, especially the 15 year-round island communities along the Maine coast. Conkling also serves as an alternate commissioner of the Roosevelt Campobello International Park, and is on the Maine state board of the Conservation Law Foundation. He lives in the small coastal town of Camden, Maine.

Early life and education Conkling completed his B.A. from Harvard University in 1970. He completed his M.F.S. at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies in 1976. He founded Island Journal. He is a board member of the Fox Island Wind. He is the President of Philip Conkling & Associates, based in Camden, Maine. Lobsters Great and Small-How Fishermen and Scientists are Changing Our Understanding of a Maine Icon'' (2001) "Along the Archipelago "