Hiking, exploring, hunting, jeeping, Google Earth, topo maps, field guides, taxonomy, biology, geology, astronomy, and other
-onomys and -ologies: it's all good.

My background is ecology and conservation. I started life (well, grad school) as a whale researcher at Memorial University of Newfoundland, studying the problem of marine mammal entrapment in fishing gear. I moved on to forest ecology at University of Maine in Orono, specifically looking at the invertebrate communities of standing dead trees.

I currently teach various Biology courses at the College of Southern Nevada.