A brief resume

I live in Oakland, California, with my family, which includes a dog, a mom, a dad (that's me) and and a daughter who is now in college. I like reading, music, computers, SCUBA diving, and being a pilot. I started playing the 'cello Summer 1997. The dog is very tolerant. And (since you asked) that novel, a murder mystery set in Berkeley in 1978, has two drafts done, and who knows how many to go...

Academic and work stuff

After graduating from Lick-Wilmerding High School, I did undergraduate work in astronomy and astrophysics at Caltech, and graduate work at UC Berkeley. Then I worked at JPL before returning to the SESAME program at Berkeley in 1982, finishing my Ph.D. in 1987. I worked for nine years with the EQUALS program at the Lawrence Hall of Science. It was great, but I left in 1992.

Now I am a freelance science and mathematics educator, working with Meg Holmberg. The two of us operate Epistemological Engineering ("helping you know how you know what you know ... since 1987") and its publishing imprint, eeps media.

In January 1996, we published our first book, United We Solve; September 2002 saw our second, Fifty Fathoms. In 2006, we put out our first science title, A Den of Inquiry. Since this book calls itself "Volume 1," that puts some pressure on to finish volumes 2 and 3.

In past years, I appeared in a set of televised math workshops for the Annenberg/CPB Math and Science Project. More recently (Winter 2000), I've worked on some activities for their web site.

The biggest project I've been involved in has been to build a piece of software for data analysis and statistics education. It's called Fathom, from KCP Technologies.

Currently we're working on an NSF-sponsored project to develop web-based activities in which students learn about the nature of science by working in groups to investigate a simulted universe.

In Fall 2008, I will join the staff at Lick-Wilmerding High School to teach in the math department.

Last updated April 26, 2008 . Caricature by Rose Craig.

P.S. The answer to the "Motoslybnia Question" is yes. Guro etsimala!