PORT CLYDE — Herring Gut Learning Center announces Tom Mullin as their new executive director.

Mullin’s career has been working in the environmental education/natural resource management and open spaces arena. Whether it was in the nonprofit environmental education, land trust community, municipal, regional, state, or federal agency, land management and protection, or teaching environmental education/interpretation and resource management/ administration, his professional life has revolved around education and how to make it relevant and a vital role in people’s lives. 

“Truly the intersection of natural sciences and education at the core of it,” said Herring Gut, in a news release. “Herring Gut will benefit from his broad educational background and extensive national environmental education/interpretive services nonprofit management experience.”

Mullin is former associate professor of Parks and Forest Resources at Unity College; Fellow of the National Association for Interpretation and vice president for Administration; and president of the Maine Woods Forever Board of Directors.

“Organizations like Herring Gut Learning Center with its diverse programs and projects along with its national, regional, state, and local partners, plays a vital role in educating the public on marine ecosystems,” said Herring Gut. “All the while protecting and ensuring the ecological and cultural resources surrounding the human interface are sustainable for the future.”

Mullin’s experience and background lend itself perfectly for assisting Herring Gut to its next level of collaborative partnership reaching new audiences for its educational/outreach efforts. This background is ideal to help take the organization to its next level of educational outreach success all the while protecting the long-established successes and operations of the past, according to the release.