Discovery and exploration—that’s what keeps me going. For over 35 years I have been exploring, studying, and experiencing the diverse ecosystems of the Pacific Northwest, and I’m still learning!

Selected Qualifications and Accomplishments

Co-editor/author of
"Birds of Oregon: A General Reference" (2003)
"Watershed-level Patterns among Stream Amphibians in the Blue River Watershed, West-central Cascades of Oregon" (M.S. Thesis, 1998)
Primary contributor of Oregon dragonfly and damselfly observations in iNaturalist.org

Author of wildlife habitat relationships sections in:

Field Guide to the Forested Plant Associations of the Northern Oregon Coast Range (2002)

and

Plant Associations of the West Central Cascades (2002)
Instructor "Field Methods for Fish and Wildlife Sampling" at Umpqua Community College 2017 & 2018

More Detail

A complete list of all my education, work experience, publications, reports, and presentations can be found in my CV (curriculum vita)
In eBird are most of my bird detections since about 2013 (earlier notes are still in hard copy). Here you can review my profile, over 5000 checklists with field notes, and almost 5000 photos of birds.
To iNaturalist I have submitted most of my photographic and non-photographic observations of all forms of life--plants, insects, molluscs, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, etc., as well as a few birds--in total comprising over 6000 records, 10,000 photos, and 1000 species.