About Me...
Why Water Quality and Environmental Engineering?
Fundamentally, I am a person who is passionate about the outdoors and the amazing environment we live in. We can't live without it, it is worth our care and protection, and I see environmental engineering both as necessary step on an inevitable path to societal and ecological sustainablity and a way to mimimize the ecological footprint that our human activities have on our surrounding environment.
What I do in my spare time..
Rock Climbing keeps me busy most of the time..
Some favorite climbs and adventures: The Nose, Yosemite; Serenity Crack/Sons of Yesterday, Yosemite; American Wet Dream, Tuolumne Meadows; OZ, Tuolumne Meadows; Lucky Streaks, Tuolumne Meadows; Ygdrasil, Incredible Hulk; Grand Wall, Stawamus Chief; Fine Jade, The Rectory; Lightning Bolt Cracks, North Six Shooter; Petit Grepon, RMNP; Pingora, Wind Rivers; Direct Exum, Grand Tetons; What's My Line, Cochise Stronghold; Absinthe of Mallet, Cochise Stronghold.
Fly Fishing on the Truckee during an evening hatch is hard to beat..
Favorite Rivers: Truckee (my home water these days, 2 minutes from my house), Yuba, McCloud, Smith, Deschutes, Upper Connecticut, Penobscot, and a variety of other special places that exact their toll in sweat and blood on the approach.
Surfing when I can get to the coast.
Favorite Surf Breaks: Ocean Beach; SF; Waddell Coast, Santa Cruz; Pleasure Point, Santa Cruz; Nexpa, Mexico; Cathedral Rock, AUS; Saltwater Creek, AUS.
Backcountry Skiing during the winter is one way to get to some beautiful places.
Education
| YEAR | DEGREE | UNIVERSITY | MORE INFO |
| 2004 | Ph.D. | U.C. Berkeley | Dissertation topic: The Occurrence and Environmental Fate of Steroid Hormones with Endocrine and Pheromonal Activity in Fish. |
| 1999 | M.S. | U.C. Berkeley | with honors in Environmental Engineering |
| 1998 | B.S. | Johns Hopkins | with general honors in Chemical Engineering |