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Index to this page:

• professional interests
• past projects (dream jobs)
• my own software products
• others' software products
• personal interests
• amusements
• obligatory favorite links

The Experimental Lakes Area, run by the Freshwater Institute at the University of Manitoba. This was a wonderful job: field technician, which meant constructing experiments in these remote lakes, taking samples every day (often involved many hours on the lakes and in the woods), and watching the northern lights every night!

SeaMARC I, a deep-towed side-scan sonar marine geological mapping instrument run by Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. SeaMARC I has done extensive mapping of the ocean floors (for some sample images, see East Pacific Rise), and was used in three expeditions to find the Titanic. This is exploration of a true frontier - the ocean floor.

Marine Technician for the Ocean Drilling Program The world's only scientific research drill ship. I spent years on the SEDCO/BP 471 (aka JOIDES Resolution) finding out not what the sea floor looks like from above, but what it is really made of. Lots of mud!

• ShowFlow 2

  A generalized Windows front end for computational models. This particular implmentation is for a groundwater contaminant transport (steady state gaussian plume) model developed by Smith and Charbeneau, called SSGPlume. Although ShowFlow was originally intended for models which run under DOS, this is by no means a limitation of the ShowFlow Modeling Interface. Let me write an interface for your favorite models!
  Go to the ShowFlow Page
  
  

• HSSM-WIN

  A Windows front end (actually ShowFlow 3) for the Hydrocarbon Spill Screening Model, released by the EPA in 1994 Download HSSM-WIN and HSSM from EPA [602kb]
  
  

• PENTIUMX

  Need to check your Pentium chip for the phamous phloating-point phlaw?
  Download Pentiumx! [24kb]
  
  

• ToyBox

  A box of windows toys, mostly graphics randomness. (Under development)
  
  

• String Art DOS Screen Saver

  A VGA-mode "String Art" [31kb] DOS screen saver (but it works under Windows, too).
  
  

• Cursors 'n' stuff

  A variety of icons, cursors, and animated cursors in jtcursor.zip [9kb].
  
  
• Arc/Info GIS groundwater modeling functions DarcyFlow(), ParticleTrack(), and PorousPuff(). These first appeared in the GRID module of Arc/Info version 7.0, published by ESRI.

• EPA Groundwater Models

  Check out EPA's Kerr Lab page for groundwater models, including HSSM and GEOPACK.
  
  

• GEO-EAS

  EPA's Geostatistical Environmental Assessment Software, written by Evan Englund and Allen Sparks is an excellent and robust geostatistics package. This version is written for DOS on the PC.
  Reference: GEO-EAS (Geostatistical Environmental Assessment Software) User's Guide, EPA/600/4-88/033a (Document available through the NTIS)
  Since I don't know of anywhere to get this on line, you can email me for it.
  

• Anyone considering getting a Ph.D. must read this: Helpful Hints for Getting Your Ph.D.
  
  
• Anagrams, anyone? I recently had a lot of fun with the letters in DODGE CARAVAN SE
  
  
• If you want to visualize what a million is, or what a liter is, check out the MegaCube, a paper liter-sized cube inscribed with millimeters. This is a pdf file which you can print out on some stiff paper (like cover stock) and assemble. There are a million (that's 10⁶) little cubic millimeters in the liter cube. To download the pdf file, right-click on the link and select "Save Target As..." (or some similar command, depending on your browser.)

• fun stuff
  • Pavillion of Polyhedreality Great stuff if you're into natural geometry, polyhedra, or ray-traced images.
  • DawgNet For fans of mandolin and David Grisman.
  • SIRDS Single-image random-dot stereograms ("Magic Eye" stuff).
  • Fractal images Beautiful, but count on lots of download time.
  • Dilbert A favorite comic strip.
  
  
• Research Ship Information
  Ships I've come to know:
  • NOAA Ship Surveyor,
  • R/V Robert D. Conrad,
  • R/V Thomas Washington (now Chile's Vidal Gormaz),
  • NOAA Ship Discoverer
  • CFAV Endeavour, and the
  • SEDCO/BP 471 (aka D/V JOIDES Resolution).
  • and, although I never rode her, the R/V VEMA (now incredibly transformed into the queen of the Windjammer fleet, the Mandalay).
  
  
• reference
  • Elements of Style The classic manual on writing and usage for the English language - on line!
  • FedWorld Home Page Everything you ever wanted to know about your government. And then some.
  • Universities Links to Colleges and Universities around the world.
  
  
• my favorite shareware
  • WS_FTP This is a great and easy-to-use FTP client, but seems to be going commercial. :-( (Windows 95, NT)
  • PFE - Programmer's File Editor This is a great FREE ASCII/ANSI text editor. Blows the doors off notepad, for example. (Windows 3.x, 95, NT, and PowerPC)
  • Stiletto Stiletto is a versatile program launcher which can completely replace your cluttered Windows desktop. (Windows 95, NT)
  • WinZip This is simply the best way to handle file compression and decompression with the ZIP standard. It also does .tar and .z files for UNIX buffs. (Windows 3.x, 95, NT)
  • TimeSync Keep your computer's system clock in sync with this time server polling service for Windows NT running in Intel x86, DEC Alpha, or Power PC platforms.
  • Convert It! This is an excellent units conversion program. Makes going from fathoms per femtosecond to furlongs per fortnight a snap. I helped with the radiation units. (Windows 3.x, 95 and NT)
  • LView Pro LView is a small yet powerful raster (bitmapped) graphics editor, viewer, and conversion tool. Convert between BMP, GIF, TIFF, JPG, or whatever, and do all kinds of color balance, size conversions, cropping, rotation, and special effects like smoothing, edge enhancement, etc. I use it to do all my WWW graphics. (Windows 95, NT)