Grepley on Clubhouse

Bio

Autodidact Bum, PhD
Will work for my own general amusement, and sometimes charitable contributions or speculative scrip.

Currently testing the hypothesis that the doctorate is indeed a degree in how to research.

Checkered Present, Research Areas:
· Neurology / Movement Disorders [Cueing effects on muscle movement in step initiation: Parkinson's Disease and typical aging]
· Human Computing Interface / Augmented Cognition [book chapter w/ @radsci]
· Phytoremediation [Coneflower remediation of long chain hydrocarbons]
· Intersection of Urban Planning, Environmentalism, and Social Justice [Covenant / Redlining effects in Twin Cities]

Personal Projects:
1) Promoting neighborhood currencies - not IRS taxable + keeps money local. Creating instruments to start and run local currencies, plus adding blockchain to make reputations portable.
2) Supporting revivification in the Mojave - raising money through personal photographs to support post-burn Joshua Tree replanting in the Mojave National Reserve, and the Mojave wildflower seedbank.
3) Eco-agrarianism - developing agriculture/foraging communities as primarily worker-owned businesses.

Have sadly received a doubly potent dose of the dismal science from both parents; personal projects involve shifting the playing field through innovations in economics, synthesized with my scientific worldview.

Personal Happiness:
Diversity of Experience > Eudaimonics > Hedonics

Perish > Publish

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Checkered Past:
Assisant Professor, U of MN, Geology and Geophysics
PI, National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics, NSF Sci&Tech Center
PhD, Earth Sciences, UC-Santa Cruz
MS, Geology, Caltech
BS, Geosciences, U of AZ
surface processes, Quaternary geochronology, paleoclimate
Development of terrestrial cosmogenic nuclide uses.

Teaching [K-Uni]
· Garden School Foundation, K-5, nutrition and science garden lessons [4 yrs]
· U of MN, Intro through Grad [8 yrs]
· Adult Education, GED / Adv ESL [10 yrs]
· Master Gardener [UCLA, U of MN; 8 yrs]

NGO position highlights:
· Assistant to Executive Director
· Grant Proposal Manager

Most unusual job: turning off lights at the U of AZ.

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Random stuff:
· I rip apart computers, bikes, cars with abandon (motivation to rebuild problematic).
· Backpacking / hiking / long distance driving / permaculture.
· Lab rat for Bipolar I - finally, someone appreciates my brain!