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Family Portrait:
 
From the left: Andy, David, Janet, Phil, Paul, Tim , Becky, and Mary
(together at Pea Ridge, Arkansas, Christmas 2005)

Books Recently Read:
    Collapse (Jared Diamond)
    The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963  (Christopher Paul Curtis)
    The Math Gene (Keith J. Devlin)
    Enchantress of Tumbledown (Don Marshall)
    Gone for Good: Tales of University Life after the Golden Age (Stuart Rojstaczer)
    The Real George Washington (Jay A. Parry)
    Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
    Giants in the Earth: A Saga of the Prairie (Ole Edvart Rolvaag)
    Peder Victorious (Ole Edvart Rolvaag)
    The Little House Series (Laura Ingalls Wilder)
    To Interpret the Earth - Ten ways to be wrong (Stanley Schumm)
    1491 - New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Charles Mann)
    A View of the River (Luna Leopold)

Some of My Favorite Places:
    our homestead near Climax, MN   (Christmas, 2002)   (winter in the coulee)
    Isle Royale, Michigan
    Lunby and Stewart Slough (northwest of Grand Forks)
    springs along the east side of Shingobee Lake, Minnesota
    Gerla's plush and exquisite vacation home in the Beartooth Mountains, Montana
    iron-rich spring - Pigeon Point, ND

Jobs:
2003-current.....Hydrologist / Aquatic Ecologist, The Nature Conservancy (part-time)
1988-current.....Associate Professor of Geology and Geological Engineering, University of North Dakota
1986-1988……Project Hydrogeologist, Hydro-Search, Inc., Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1984-1986……Lecturer in Geology, University of Wisconsin-Platteville
1982-1984……Assistant Professor of Geology, Muskingum College, New Concord, Ohio
1980-1981……Exploration Geologist, Gulf Mineral Resources
1979………….Mining Geologist, Phelps-Dodge Corporation, Morenci, Arizona (summer)
1978………….Exploration Geologist, W.G.M., Inc., Anchorage, Alaska (summer)
1974.................Choke setter (for 2 days, about 1/2 the life expectancy in this occupation), then self-employed painter (summer)
1973.................Camp Counselor, Trailblazer Camp, New Jersey (summer)
1972.................Field and Laboratory Technician, International Biome Program, School of Forestry, Corvallis, OR (summer)

Schooling:
1983        Ph.D., University of Arizona (Geology)
1977        M.S., University of New Hampshire (Earth Science)
1975        B.S., Oregon State University (Geology, two years as a Forestry major)

Church:
Grand Forks Ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens
The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about. 

Job 40:21-22