Aspiring Human
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Most scientists have a professional page. I do too.
You can learn all about that at the link for ACME LAB - Applied Conservation Macro Ecology.
This is instead a personal page. After 20 years of working as an applied wildlife scientist, I have learned that professional relationships are also often personal relationships. Partners and funders want to know what kind of person they've teaming up with, beyond the usual list of publications and hagiographic biographies. So here it is. Hopefully after landing here, you will still want to partner with me on research, or be a friend.
You can learn all about that at the link for ACME LAB - Applied Conservation Macro Ecology.
This is instead a personal page. After 20 years of working as an applied wildlife scientist, I have learned that professional relationships are also often personal relationships. Partners and funders want to know what kind of person they've teaming up with, beyond the usual list of publications and hagiographic biographies. So here it is. Hopefully after landing here, you will still want to partner with me on research, or be a friend.
Some thoughts:
Then out spake brave Horatius,
The Captain of the Gate:
"To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers,
And the temples of his Gods."
-Thomas Babington Macaulay, Lays of Ancient Rome, 1842
I had the great fortune of surviving a challenge to my mortality in my 19th year, and have been circumspect about how I want to live my life thereafter. My fathers - farmers, fishers, labourers going back generations - lived and died on the ebb and flow of the natural resources available to them. My temple, then, is Earth in its natural and wild glory; Gods, the forces that drive those tides.
I decided to spend my life learning about, and protecting that Temple.
I hope my fathers would approve.
Then out spake brave Horatius,
The Captain of the Gate:
"To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers,
And the temples of his Gods."
-Thomas Babington Macaulay, Lays of Ancient Rome, 1842
I had the great fortune of surviving a challenge to my mortality in my 19th year, and have been circumspect about how I want to live my life thereafter. My fathers - farmers, fishers, labourers going back generations - lived and died on the ebb and flow of the natural resources available to them. My temple, then, is Earth in its natural and wild glory; Gods, the forces that drive those tides.
I decided to spend my life learning about, and protecting that Temple.
I hope my fathers would approve.