While I grew up in the East Tennessee area, I was quickly drawn to the West.  I earned a Bachelor's at Western State College (Gunnison, CO) in Geology, worked for a few years in oil and gas service, exploration and production sectors in Venezuela, West Virginia and Texas.  Missing my connection to the mountains, I returned to graduate school at Montana State University (Bozeman, MT) where I earned an M.S. studying aqueous geochemistry from a marine sediment core from the Grounding Zone (where the ice sheet transitions from overlying the continental mass to the Ross Sea) in West Antarctica.  I've had the opportunity to teach physical science and AP Environmental Science and look forward to teaching Biology and Earth Science this coming year.