Carroll is the author and illustrator of three widely acclaimed natural histories, The Year of the Turtle, Trout Reflections and Swampwalker's Journal; he calls them his "wet sneaker trilogy".

A lecturer and environmental activist, Carroll's work focuses on turtles, their habitat and wetland preservation. His art and writing, as well as his extensive fieldwork with turtles and wetlands are widely recognized. He has been the subject of many feature articles. His botanical and forestry paintings have earned him awards from the US Department of Agriculture and the International Society of Arborculture. In 1999, he received an Environmental Merit Award from the Environmental Protection Agency, along with the already mentioned, 2001 John Burrows Medal for Literature in Nature Writing.

Carroll is a graduate of the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts and Tufts University. He was awarded an Honorary Masters from New England College and an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from the University of New Hampshire.

His seminars and workshops on turtle ecology, vernal pools, other wetland habitats and nature-journaling at elementary schools, colleges, conservation institutions and libraries, have opened the eyes of elementary students through graduate students, to professional herpetologists.

Exhibitions of his art work have been shown at Dartmouth College Museum and Galleries, Plymouth State Art Gallery, Dodd Center, and University of Connecticut. They appear in the permanent collection of the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation.

David and his wife, painter Laurette Carroll, live in Warner, NH.

To learn more about David M. Carroll visit the Carroll homepage at www.lib.uconn.edu/Exhibits/carroll/carroll.html