Hank Parker

Hank Parker is a writer, biodefense specialist, and university professor with a PhD degree in biological oceanography. He has been a U.S. Naval officer and deep-sea salvage diver; a seaweed farmer in the Philippines; a co-leader of an expedition that discovered and recovered remains of a Spanish Manila galleon; a senior executive and research manager at the U.S. Department of Agriculture where he helped lead programs to protect United States food and agriculture; a consultant on homeland security; a professor of marine science; and an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Medical Center where he currently teaches in a graduate program on biohazardous threats.

Hank travels extensively. He has recently trekked in Iceland, Slovenia, Newfoundland, the Torngat Mountains of Northern Labrador, Patagonian Chile and Argentina, and the highlands and lowlands of Ecuador, Guatemala, and Belize. He lives in Vermont.