Kent Mountford

Kent Mountford, PhD, is an estuarine ecologist with nearly four decades of experience focused on North America's mid-Atlantic estuaries. A writer, lecturer, and sailor, Dr. Mountford has been employed as a scientist for the District of Columbia and the US Environmental Protection Agency. Dr. Mountford was raised a native New Jerseyan, spending each youthful summer at the Shore and the early core of his professional life on Barnegat Bay. He received his Masters and his PhD from Rutgers, New Brunswick, where he also received his undergraduate degree in 1960. He has been a sailor for fifty years and is a licensed U.S. Coast Guard captain. His half-century of logbooks, filled with experiences and sketches, cover some 35,000 miles sailing across waters domestic and foreign. With his wife Nancy, he lives on one of the Chesapeake's tributaries and, from an office overlooking his boat moored in her cove continues to write, lecture about, and study coastal history and ecology.