Jed and Emily are both in graduate school at Oregon State University.

Emily is working on a master's degree in Marine Resource Management in the College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, studying the physical processes in estuaries and developing outreach tools to convey that information.

Jed is working on a master's degree in Science and Mathematics Education in the College of Science, focusing on free choice learning (conveying science and math to informal audiences) and exhibit development.

Quagmire is working on her own biology experiment and calling to us daily through the Pacific to set out on yet another voyage.

Frontier military outposts required lines of communication to other outposts, supply depots, command centers, and field operations. The telegraph was a revolutionary form of communication in the 1870-80′s for the U.S. Army across the American frontier. Starting in 1875-76, the U.S. Army built the first 25 telegraph stations in Texas. In 1882, the U.S. Army’s [...]

Mushing with Bella

Bella is special; she’s not at all like the labs that I grew up with, or many of the other dogs that either of us are used to having in our lives.  For one, she doesn’t play fetch.  At all.  She can’t even be bothered to chase after the ball and then not bring it [...]

Little Bug

Little Bug was a part of our family for about two years–until he got hit by a bus.  Since he was invisible, there was no funeral and no mourning period.  Just like the many times when he would suddenly be present in a room or an active participant in an activity, when he was suddenly [...]

Over the past couple of months I have been working on creating an exhibit for the Hatfield Marine Science Center Visitor Center in Newport Oregon. The three panels below are part of a larger exhibit aimed at increasing public awareness about harnessing wave energy to create electricity off Oregon’s coast. This is still a work [...]