I am a graduate student in the Bradford Research Laboratory, Eugene P. Odum School of Ecology, The University of Georgia where I am in the process of re-educating myself for a new career after thirty-odd years as an information systems and Internet engineer.  I received a B.S. Geology, from UGA in August '05 and intend to work straight through to a Ph.D. Ecology (in August '09?) with additional study in Evolution, Genetics, and Geology.

My general research interests are evolutionary-ecological and I am particularly interested in evolutionary punctuations resulting from ecological perturbations.  My Ph.D. research program is to look at the evolution of soil microorganisms in response to stresses of global climate change and the resulting effects on nutrient cycling.

I may also be interested in developing a quantitative model, a toolkit and portable implementation, of resource competition and invasion-succession-displacement (i.e. Resource Ratio theory) based on organismal stoichiometry.

A beaver pond at my home.
Ecology is lurking in there, somewhere!

One of my ATR-DasGip-Infors chemostats.
I'm doing ecology in vitro.
(in machina veritas?)

Self in the field at Tibbs Bridge on the Conasauga River near Dalton, Ga.
Етот быть похожим на трылобит!
Сеичас не обедныи перерыв?

In the future, I would like to take a closer look at relationships between both present and past ecological perturbation and evolutionary punctuation.

I am interested in current events linking (mostly climatic) large scale abiotic environmental changes to (mostly eukaryotic micro-) organismal evolution and in distinguishing between evolution and "adaptation".

I am interested in past events from the Neoproterozoic thru the latest Cambrian.  Geologically speaking, this runs from consolidated Rodinia through the snowball-slushball episodes to the isolation of Laurentia, Baltica, and Siberia.  Biologically speaking, this runs from the appearance of the first metazoans thru the evolution and sorting of the stem clades of our present phyla.

I am also interested in the stem phylogeny and early evolution of diploblasts, especially Cnidaria.  As time permits I am continuing some field and laboratory work investigating what may be an evolutionary intermediate between askeletal (sea anemone-like) and calcareous-skeletal (coral-like) cnidaria.