During his career as a marine and freshwater ecologist, Dr. Richard Modlin, wrote and published over seventy scientific articles, book chapters and reviews. Born in Toledo, Ohio and educated at the Universities of Wisconsin and Connecticut, he is an Emeritus Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and the former Director of the UAH Honors Program. Richard is now avidly pursuing his second career as an author. Although his primary interests have shifted to creative writing (fiction and non-fiction), he is still interested natural history. His popular press articles have appeared in Sea Frontiers, Bird Watcher’s Digest, Encyclopedia of Environmental Issues, Birmingham Arts Journal, Muscadine Lines: A Southern Journal and in other magazines. He is the author of the book titled Malachite Lion, A Travel Adventure in Kenya, which describes his travel adventures to East Africa. His second book, Chasing Wings, recounts his bird watching adventures and travels. He has recently published three American Revolutionary War thrillers (the Jack Hollister series). Richard has received several awards for his writings.
Richard has read some of his short stories and essays on WLRH, Huntsville’s National Public Radio affiliate. From 2011–2013 he presided over the Alabama Writers’ Conclave, the oldest, continuously active, writers’ society in the United States and is presently on the Board of the Huntsville Literary Association, where he was the former chair of the Young Writers Contest.
His career gave Dr. Modlin considerable opportunity to travel. As the UAH Liaison Officer to the Alabama Marine Environmental Sciences Consortium, he spent many summers at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab, teaching and doing research on Mobile Bay and the Gulf of Mexico. As a senior research fellow for the Smithsonian Institution’s Caribbean Coral Reef Ecosystem program, 
Richard swam many hours underwater investigating mangrove swamps and coral reefs off the coast of Central Belize. He spent a year at the University of Lund in Sweden as a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar. Richard has traveled extensively throughout North and Central America, Europe, East Africa, and the islands of the Western Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans, and the Mediterranean Sea. In 2000, UAHuntsville presented Dr. Modlin with a Teacher of the Year Award. Recently, Dr. Modlin received the 2018 Distinguished Alumni Award from the Morrison R. Waite High School in Toledo, Ohio. Richard was an ardent SCUBA diver and still enjoys bird watching, maritime history, wooden boats and nature photography.
Presently, Richard and his wife Marian, who is also a writer/photographer, live on a forested hillside in North Alabama. The two spend part of their summers on the Downeast Coast of Maine and part of the winters traveling. Recently (Feb. 2019) they cruised along the west coast of New Zealand and visited southeastern coast of Australia.
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