Hampshire College

Jason M. Tor, dean of the School of Natural Science and associate professor of microbiology, received his B.S. in soil science and a M.S. in natural resources and environmental science from the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign and a Ph.D. in microbiology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

He has a broad research and teaching interest in soil microbiology and geomicrobiology.

He has conducted research in a variety of extreme environments, including the hydrothermal vents in Yellowstone National Park and Vulcano, Italy, hypersaline areas of Death Valley National Park, and metal contaminated soils and sediments in Massachusetts.

Affiliations
School of Natural Science

Recent Courses
NS-0257/NS-0337: Astrobiology (Fall 2011)
Biochemistry (Spring 2011)
Extremophiles (Spring 2011)
Is There Life on Mars? (Spring 2011)