As a kid I spent hours upon hours on the boat.. where my Dad would drive me crazy by pointing to the water and saying  "can you see that?.. nope can't see it, have to imagine it".. which led me to a career/love learning how to see what we couldn't see.. in 2000 I resigned my tenured faculty spot with Bryant College to move to the Eastern Shore of Virginia. I "reconstituted" myself with the University of Maryland, Eastern Shore and then migrated (thankfully) to NOAA's Chesapeake Bay Office. While with NOAA's Chesapeake Bay office I set up and ran boats mapping the Bay bottom, learned what makes oysters happy, and made my dent at "Saving the Bay". In 2007 the position at NCBO became" full on" education. I brought in the "Aquabotz" Program I created back in '04 and then developed low cost observation buoys (Basic Observation Buoys) and "Build-a-Buoy". Before I left NCBO I was working on dynamic, online worksheets that populate with data fresh from the observation systems. In May of 2010 I became a program manager for NOAA's Integrated Ocean Observing System managing a portfolio of coastal  oceanographic models that forecast or map coastal inundation and hypoxia. What's next after IOOS? Not sure, there are neat options ahead... stand by.,,

On the home front, we're still homesteading in the cabin in Preston, MD. Prior to the start of my detail with the Integrated Ocean Observing System, Susan helped me find a nice home in Chevy Chase to "light" for the year. In essence, we put an add in the neighborhood list serve "Looking for home for a year for well behaved, good humored, golden retriever.. you must also tolerate Marine Scientist... we got two calls of interest.. mainly because of Fezzik.. and ultimately landed a sweet home for the year about 8 blocks from Susan and Zoe's. My daugher Leslie is a nurse in the Cardiac-Thoracic Unit at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, MD. She lives in an apartment in Silver Spring with her dog Lucky.  Andy is a Public Safety Officer at Wesley College, living in Dover, Delaware. Eric, Elliot, and Earl are all doing remarkably well.. I now have three grandsons and a grand daughter.  Susan has become my partner in most aspects of life and I'm enjoying her passion for life and learning.