About Me

I am not a climatologist, physician, computer scientist, theologian, or politician. I graduated from the University of California, Irvine, in 1973 with honors; my degree was in Biological Sciences, principally environmental biology. I pursued miscellaneous course work at other institutions, most notably some graduate study in ecology at the University of California, Davis. I spent 1978 to 1994 in fish habitat research with the U.S. Forest Service developing new assessment methods and modeling habitat suitability, analyzing and publishing research findings, and programming and interfacing disparate computer operating systems across local area networks. After 34 years I retired from the U.S. Forest Service after serving as Forest Fishery Biologist on a diverse multi-million acre national forest. More information is available here.

I was, I think, generally respected and widely regarded among my peers as quite competent but somewhat of a contrarian, something of which I am proud. In my view, people are too willing to be led along by "statements from authority"; that is, they accept information from persons they deem superior to themselves in some way without question. This is wrong in all cases. One may not have the knowledge to understand an issue fully or the skills with which to construct counter-arguments, but questioning is the only way to build knowledge and apply it to one's world.