This is my fourteenth year at Ventura college. Besides teaching geography and serving at the Geosciences Department Chair, I give oversight to our GIS program and our Environmental Science program. I also am an active member of the campus facilities committee (FOG) that has been actively involved in all the new buildings on campus.

In the Spring Semester of 2006 I was able to take a 4-month sabbatical in New Zealand. I was a sabbatical visitor at the University of Auckland (at the time the unit I was in was called the School of Geography and Environmental Science.)

All through the 1990s, I taught or helped teach a number of different courses at Santa Barbara City College and UCSB.  These included: Cultural Geography, Economic Geography, Physical Geography, Physical Geography Lab, Environmental Studies: The Physical Earth; Solar Energy and the Environment, Introduction to Mapping and GIS, and GIS: Software Applications.

I worked for the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) from 1991-1999 primarily as the Education Projects Manager.

In the late 80's I taught High School math (Algebra through Calculus)

Education

B.A. Environmental Studies and Geography, UCSB, 1985

Teaching Credential, UCSB, 1986 (taught for 4 years at Mayfair High School in Lakewood, CA)

M.A. Geography , UCSB, 1994

Post-Graduate work, NCGIA, UCSB, 1994-1999

My office is in the Science Building (SCI 123) in the southeast portion of campus (map)

Resources:
Metadata Education Notes
CIRGIS Regional GIS Data Sharing

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