About Me

I am a professor of Earth Sciences at SUNY Buffalo State, specializing in environmental contamination studies (so I teach and do research). I teach courses in Environmental Earth Science, Geologic Hazards, Historical Geology, Hydrogeology, Environmental Geochemistry and Environmental Case Studies. 

For this reason I tend to read a lot of nonfiction works on environmental issues. This can get very depressing, so I also read fun nonfiction and whatever fiction catches my eye. I have always been a reader and generally tend to walk from place to place carrying a book or article that I am reading – I have good peripheral vision and am way less of a hazard than the people walking around looking at their cell phones. I have never walked into anyone or run into a stationary object because I was reading. I have been run over by a squirrel – OUCH they have sharp nails! – but that wasn’t my fault. 

I have a tendency toward sarcasm – you might have noticed if you looked around this site. Sorry, but it is an occupational hazard.

I am usually ridiculously busy at work (that’s me under that rock up there) that I have no idea what is currently popular on TV and the only movies I have seen in years have been mostly been children’s movies. My pop culture references are either horridly dated or obscure.