Biographical Sketch: The Outline

Places I've Lived

• Two miles north of Cromwell, Iowa
• Ames, Iowa
• Storrs, Connecticut
• Washington, D.C. Metropolitan area, including Arlington, Virginia and The People's Republic of Takoma Park (Maryland)
• Pocahontas County, West Virginia

Jobs I've Had (see my on-line resume for details)

• Newspaper proofreader, technical editor
• Sorter of dead mosquitoes and ceratapogonid midges
• Insect collection technician
• Zoo-keeper's assistant
• College instructor
• Teacher of all subjects, for all ages, K-12 subject matter
• Molecular geneticist
• Bacteriologist
• Bioinformatician

Subjects I've Taught

• Introductory Biology for Biology Majors, labs and lectures
• Entomology labs
• Scanning Electron Microscopy
• Adult Basic Education, including math from addition through algebra and reading and writing at every level
• Chemistry for student nurses
• Basic Statistics
• Word Processing and Spread Sheets

Computer Experience

• Fortran programming course, 1976: The joys of a public keypunch area
• Life in Unix Big Iron Land, running Xedit and SAS
• Exile to DOS and Apple OS's
• The joys of GNU Unix on Sun workstations
• Some unpleasant exposure to Microsoft Windows
• A return to *nix Nirvana via OSX and Linux

Fiber Arts Interests and Experience

• Sewing--garment construction, quilting
• Knitting
• Spinning wool yarn for knitters

Natural History Interests

• Heteroptera, the True Bugs (accept no substitutes!)
• The Burgess Shale
• Trilobites
• Mushrooms of West Virginia
• Nature writing, particularly of Aldo Leopold, Loren Eiseley, Edwin Way Teale, Rachel Carson

Musical Interests and Obsessions

• Baroque flute music
• English concertina
• Clawhammer banjo