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I am Professor of Biology in the Physical & Health Sciences Department at Alfred State College (also known as SUNY College of Technology at Alfred). Courses I have recently taught include Botany, General Biology, Genetics, First Aid, Applied Chemical Principles, and Introductory Chemistry.

In the rest of my life, I am husband to Laurel ( music instructor and carillonneur at Alfred University ), and father of five daughters.

• Janna is a vocational counselor for the Allegany Council on Alcoholism and Substance Abuse in Wellsville, NY.
• Rachel was married in July 2004 to Krestia DeGeorge. Rachel and Krestia currently live in Orono, Maine where Krestia is in a graduate program in English. Granddaughter Miriam Kestrel was born in Anchorage, Alaska on May 17, 2009.
• Martha married Bradley Davis in August 2005. Bradley completed a master's degree in biology at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia, and Martha worked as a geologist for Lorax Environmental Services, also in Vancouver. Grandson Archer Bradley was born in Vancouver on November 30, 2009. The family recently moved to Kingston, Ontario where Martha has started a master's program in geology at Queen's University.
• Jewel married Kevin Aagaard in August 2009. They recently moved to Somerset, NJ. Jewel is a vocal performance master's student at Westminster Choir College. Kevin is enrolled in a Ph.D. program in ecology at Rutgers University, and serves as one of the caretakers of Rutgers' Hutcheson Memorial Forest.
• Esther is a junior environmental engineering major at University at Buffalo. She spent the fall 2010 semester at Monterey Tech in Mexico.

My other interests and activities are:

• church activities. I am a member of Sojourners Mennonite Fellowship in Houghton, NY, also attend Union University Church, Alfred, NY, and am the bookkeeper for New York Mennonite Conference
• music. I enjoy a capella vocal, play the viola, and listen to a wide variety of styles. I sing baritone in Alfred State's Faculty Men's Quartet .
• outdoor activities. These include hiking, camping, and gardening.
• travel. My entire family took a month-long road trip to Alaska in the summer of 2002. Over spring break in 2006 I co-led an Alfred State College work crew that participated in post-Katrina cleanup near New Orleans. I have coordinated and led six tropical ecology field trips to Costa Rica , in 1999, 2001, 2003 ,  2005 , 2007 , and 2009. I am planning the next for spring break, March 2013. During the fall 2011 semester I was on sabbatical from Alfred State College and taught at Astrakhan State Technical University in Russia under a Fulbright grant. I blogged about my experiences and travel within Russia.

Last modified: January 23, 2012