Herman G. Weller, now retired, was an associate professor of science education in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Maine. Following two years teaching high school physics in the Peace Corps in Ghana, he taught grades 8-12 science, mathematics, and computer programming for nine years at the American Cooperative School in Liberia and one year at the Colegio Internacionale de Caracas in Venezuela. He was a university faculty member at Texas Tech University for three years and at the University of Maine for almost 15 years.

Herman has presented and published research in computer use in science education, hypermedia-based learning, and science teacher preparation. He was a co-PI for a five-year NSF Collaboratives grant project called MMSTEC, and a co-PI for the NSF-COSEE-Ocean Systems grant project. Since retiring in 2008, he has changed his interests completely, and now concentrates on writing fiction.