After growing up in the Tri-Cities area I attended Washington State University, BS in Psychology, and the University of South Carolina, MEd in Secondary Social Studies Education. I am retired in the Tri-Cities area after 40 years in high school classrooms.
I first heard of the Ice Age Floods around 1980 and began incorporating the topic into my Washington History course. I learned of and joined the IAFI in 1999 and I served as the organization’s president from 2004 until 2010. I was also the founding president of the Lake Lewis Chapter of the IAFI.
During the past fifteen or so years I have led numerous floods field trips for the Columbia Reach Interpretive Center in Richland and taught floods classes for the Kennewick School District’s Community Education Program.
I am currently serving as Education Director with a citizen science nonprofit group which is excavating a 17,500 year-old Columbian mammoth. The skeleton is buried in Ice Age Floods graded beds near the Tri-Cities.