About me, the long version

For my first blog post I provide some of the details about my background that provide the experience and knowledge base that I will draw upon as a school board member.

… I started at UAF as a Research Associate Professor in 2004. To make the move more interesting, I bicycled up from Houston while friends separately drove my belongings up in a UHaul truck. My educational outreach activities at UAF have mostly centered around creating and overseeing a statewide traveling digital planetarium program. Between this program and our son’s school activities, I have had the opportunity to visit a good fraction of the schools in our district. I met my wife Keiko, a Fairbanks native, in 2008 and we married in 2009. Our son Griffin was born in 2013.