Gosh, I am in BIG trouble. It's been a few weeks and I haven't posted a thing...I hope libkat is gentle in her scolding. Well, it's true, "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans". There's a lot happening in the lives of many folk around me and as one who never turns his back on time, I've been directing my attention where most needed. Hasta luego
I'm still new to this blogging thing - my association with computers have always been as a creative tool, but in a different sense. I still feel the need for paper and pencil to scribble my thoughts, ideas, stories. The scribble mirrors more accurately the meanderings of my mind. Typing on this keyboard, in its own QWERTY way, orders my thoughts too much, too soon. Hasta luego
It's funny how my past catches up with me. Gave a lecture in Wildlife Biology a few weeks back...a lecture laced with the politics and attributes of real conservation - minus any apologies. One of the students, an inspiring person in her own right, came to see me last week or so, saying that she was inspired by my lecture (although I don't she laughed at my quip about losing my hair when I showed images of me doing an autopsy on a leatherback turtle that had drowned after being caught in a fisherman's rope). She's invited me to advise/contribute to a new animal welfare organisation. It's true, the things that you really love are just below the surface. I'm not sure how active I can be, but it will be nice to meet some dedicated folk like Mary Hutton (Free the Bears Fund) again; she'd supported my Ecuador project...gosh, almost 10 years ago now. I'm not sure of Mary's contribution to/role in this new venture either.
It's always nice to see students push the boundaries with passion.
With a strong love of science and learning, I have been involved with teaching at all levels from preprimary children through to university students for twenty years. I have also taught at TAFE, the Western Australian Museum and worked as a guide for the popular GoBush activities coordinated by the Hills Forest, Mundaring. I have had several years experience in nature based tourism throughout Western Australia as a tour leader, driver and cook.
As chief scientist and co-organiser, I co-led Project Eakehei which undertook a program of zoological, ethnobiological and environmental impact research in rainforests of southern Ecuador. For this work, my colleagues and I were the only Australians to ever win a BirdLife International BP Conservation Award. As a biologist, I have worked throughout the southwest of Western Australia, in Victoria, Europe, South America and the United States. I continue to act as a consultant biologist/ecologist/conservationist and have been blessed with a beautiful family of three girls (including my partner!).
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Gosh, I am in BIG trouble. It's been a few weeks and I haven't posted a thing...I hope libkat is gentle in her scolding. Well, it's true, "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans". There's a lot happening in the lives of many folk around me and as one who never turns his back on time, I've been directing my attention where most needed.
Hasta luego
I'm still new to this blogging thing - my association with computers have always been as a creative tool, but in a different sense. I still feel the need for paper and pencil to scribble my thoughts, ideas, stories. The scribble mirrors more accurately the meanderings of my mind. Typing on this keyboard, in its own QWERTY way, orders my thoughts too much, too soon.
Hasta luego
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It's funny how my past catches up with me. Gave a lecture in Wildlife Biology a few weeks back...a lecture laced with the politics and attributes of real conservation - minus any apologies. One of the students, an inspiring person in her own right, came to see me last week or so, saying that she was inspired by my lecture (although I don't she laughed at my quip about losing my hair when I showed images of me doing an autopsy on a leatherback turtle that had drowned after being caught in a fisherman's rope). She's invited me to advise/contribute to a new animal welfare organisation. It's true, the things that you really love are just below the surface. I'm not sure how active I can be, but it will be nice to meet some dedicated folk like Mary Hutton (Free the Bears Fund) again; she'd supported my Ecuador project...gosh, almost 10 years ago now. I'm not sure of Mary's contribution to/role in this new venture either.
It's always nice to see students push the boundaries with passion.
Hasta luego
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