G. Thomas Farmer

G. Thomas (Tom) Farmer is a native Virginian. He attended public schools and the University of Virginia for BA and MS degrees in Environmental Sciences (Geology) and a Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati. He taught geology, ecology, and physics at James Madison University in Virginia and began the geology major program there. He has taught environmental sciences at Northern Kentucky University, Northern Virginia CC, the Universities of Virginia and Cincinnati as a graduate assistant, and worked at the Smithsonian Institution's Natural History Museum in Washington, D.C. He was Curator of the University of Cincinnati's Natural History Museum. He entered private consulting after leaving a tenured Associate Professor-ship and retired from Los Alamos National Laboratory in 2003. He served for several years as an Associate Editor of "The Professional Geologist," the flagship publication of the American Institute of Professional Geologists. He currently is President of Farmer Enterprises specializing in environmental and management consulting for federal, state, and regional governments and private industrial clients. He was the Senior Geologist at the Love Canal Superfund site in NY and has specialized in DoD and DoE's Installation Restoration programs, UMTRA, RCRA and CERCLA in his consulting. He lives in Las Cruces, New Mexico. He is the author or co-author of numerous reports, five books, the latest of which are "Climate Change Science: A Modern Synthesis, Volume I, The Physical Climate", part one of a two-part series on climate change science published in 2013 and "Modern Climate Change Science" published in 2015. "Climate Change Science: A Modern Synthesis, Volume 2, Earth's Climate History" is in preparation and will be published sometime in 2016.