Faculty
Murray Carpenter has been covering science and environmental stories in Maine for over 20 years. He has worked as a reporter for Maine Public Radio, Maine Times, and The Republican Journal. As a freelancer, he has reported for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, and the Bangor Daily News; and Wired, National Geographic, and Audubon magazines. His radio stories have aired on NPR’s Morning Edition and All Things Considered, PRI’s The World, and Living on Earth. His book Caffeinated, How Our Daily Habit Helps, Hooks and Hurts Us was published by Penguin USA in 2014. He holds a degree in psychology from the University of Colorado and an MS in Environmental Studies from the University of Montana, and lives in Belfast, Maine, where he spends as much time as possible enjoying the outdoors.