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Infrared Radiative Effects of Various Urban Materials Upon Vegetation
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Historical Case of the Creation of the Fahrenheit Temperature Scale
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Knowledge of Preservice Elementary Teachers: Results from the
Geoscience Concept Inventory
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Overview of Conceptual Change Research
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WELCOME TO MY WEB SITE! I received a Ph.D. in Science Education from the Mallinson Institute for Science Education at Western Michigan University in 2006. I am currently a Senior Research Associate at the center for Science and Mathematics Program Improvement (SAMPI). I have many interests: I love to travel, I love the outdoors, I love to run, I love to take pictures, I love to read, I love to write, I love to watch scary movies, and I love to do research. You can follow my random thoughts and life experiences on Twitter by clicking here.
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 GALLERY 1: My 2010 Trip to Northern Uganda This gallery documents my experiences while visiting the Nebbi Standard College, a secondary school in Northern Uganda. |
 GALLERY 2: The 2008 Kalamazoo Flood This gallery documents the September 2008 flooding that occurred in Kalamazoo, Michigan after nearly 10 inches of rain fell on the area from the remnants of Hurricane Ike. |
 GALLERY 3: Various Weather This gallery highlights winter in Michigan; an urban street flood in Grand Rapids, Michigan; thunderstorms in Wyoming; and rainbows in Wyoming and Nebraska. |
 GALLERY 4: Geographic Wonders Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado, Washington D.C., Michigan, New Hampshire, Hawaii, British Columbia, Washington State, and Arizona! |
 GALLERY 5: More Geographic Wonders All of the pictures in this gallery are taken by friends of mine. (California, New York City, Indiana, South Dakota, Pittsburgh, Boston, Niagara Falls, and Michigan.) |
 GALLERY 6: And Yet More Geographic Wonders! This gallery contains pictures that I took during Western Michigan University's May 2001 Regional Geography Field Course to Yellowstone National Park. I went along as an assistant. |
| WEATHER
HUMOR "Diary of a Snow shoveler," "The Top 10 Signs that You might be a Weather Nut," and more! |
A
WEATHER JOURNAL "The Weather: On the Road from Michigan to Boston" |
MORE
WEATHER JOURNALS Creative Weather Journals from students in classes I have taught. The journals include poems, photos, and creative stories. |
WEATHER
LINKS Links to meteorology related sites |
| DAILY
CLIMATE DATA This page contains daily temperature normals and high/low records for various locations in Michigan, Illinois, and Minnesota. |
RECENT
TEMPERATURE RECORDS (Note: this page is no longer being updated!)This page contains record high and low temperatures that have been set recently at various locations in Michigan, Illinois, and Minnesota. |
MONTHLY
DATA - GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN This page contains mean monthly temperatures and precipitation & snowfall data for Grand Rapids, Michigan (from October 1948 through the current month). |
CLIMATE DATA - KALAMAZOO,
MICHIGAN This page contains snowfall data for Kalamazoo, Michigan (1998 through 2010) and monthly and daily climate data for Kalamazoo, Michigan (January 2000 to current). |
LINKS TO MY ACADEMIC PAPERS AND RESEARCH:
Academic papers on meteorology-related subjects
"The sun doesn't rise or fall; it just sits there, and we rotate in front of it. The sun never 'goes away' from the sky. It's still there sharing the same sky with us; it's simply that there's a chunck of opaque earth between us and the sun which prevents us from seeing it. No longer do I drive down a highway and wish the blinding sun would set; instead I wish we could speed up our rotation a bit and swing around into the shadows more quickly." ---(Michael Collins)
