"Nemo me impune lacesset"*
| 1983-present | Director, Ocean Institute-Brookdale Community College ("UCLA" - University Closest to the Lincroft Area). Sharing marine science with thousands of students and teachers each year. |
| 1978-1993 | Adjunct Professor, Rutgers University. Teaching oceanography in the Department of Meteorology and Physical Oceanography. |
| 1977-1983 | Station biologist, New Jersey Marine Sciences Consortium. Teaching and killing lots of fish in the name of science. |
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10 - Degrees and certificates obtained 9 - Environmental honors awarded 8 - Boards elected 7 - Seas sailed 6 - Colleges and universities employed 5 - Ships served (Ship fires - 2) 4 - Private, Public and Governor's schools employed 3 - Island Institutes served 2 - Museums employed 1 - Prisons employed |
Additional entertainment, some of which I've
actually gotten paid for:
Ornithology instructor, National Audubon Society
Coral Reef Education Program (NOAA, Project WET) - Curriculum
writer
Geology and Physical Oceanography instructor, Middlesex
Community College Physics Department
Earth Science instructor, Monmouth University Biology
Department
Director of Education, Acadia Institute of Oceanography
Instructor of environmental biology, human biology and
evolution, Mercy College Biology Department
Resource management ranger, National Park Service
Teacher-trainer, Cape Cod Museum of Natural History and
MITS program
Visiting scientist,
Oceanographic & Limnological Research, Limited. Eilat, Israel
Lecturer and curriculum
developer, World Cruise Company's round-the-world cruise
Naturalist, guest editor,
American Littoral Society
ESL, Adult Basic Skills instructor, Brookdale College
PRESENTATIONS:
Lecture programs: Mutineers, Moais and Midway: The Natural and Human History of some notorious
and far-flung Pacific Islands; Living on Limulus:
The life history of horseshoe crabs; Seabirds and bird islands of
the world; Warmwater Aquacullture in the Red
Sea; The Seychelles Islands: Hunting
the widowbird of LaDigue Island; The Penguins of Patagonia;
The Dragons and Durians
of the Lesser Sunda Islands; Learning with Limulus: Teaching about marine life with horseshoe
crabs; Coastal Geology and Human Impacts; Birding Middle Atlantic Shores and
More.
Curriculum
development: Aquatic WILD; activities for DISCOVER the
World of Science television series, Scientific American
FRONTIERS television series; New Jersey Department of Education
High School Proficiencies, Smithsonian Institution Ocean Planet
Exhibit, Zoological Society of Philadelphia, New Jersey DEP,
Rutgers University Technology for Children program
Awards:
2008, Environmental Education Award - Monmouth
County Park System
2007, Citation - Sea World
2005, Outstanding Administrator Award - Brookdale College
2005, Outstanding Marine Educator - NJ Marine
Education Association
2005, 2001, 1998, 1995 Educational Excellence Awards, Brookdale
College Foundation
1995, Environmental Quality Award, USEPA
1995, Educator of the Year, Alliance of Environmental Educators
1995, Pledge and a Promise Citation, Anheuser-Busch Corporation
1994, Innovative Environmental
Programming, Monmouth County Park System
1994, Conservation Award, Audubon Society
1994, Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History Citation
1993, Victor Grossinger Award for Environmental Education
1993, Water Resources Association
Education Award
Former residences, personal favorites, etc:
The Grants at Sandy Hook
Birthplace: Germany "Natura
il fece, e poi ruppe la stampa."
First home in the states.
First home at Sandy Hook.
Five generations of the
Grant family at Sandy Hook. Motto: "Stand Fast"
Trivia:
Best movies: A Fish called Wanda,
Life of Brian, and any baseball movie with Susan Sarandon.
Best (early) foreign movies: Morgan: A Suitable Case
for Treatment (1966) Starring: David Warner, Vanessa Redgrave;
Big Deal on Madonna Street (Italian),
The Stewards (British)
Best seasickness
scene: Anthony Quinn in Zorba
Most over-rated movie: Forrest Gump
Latest over-rated movie: Brokeback
Mountain (Who'd pay to see a cowboy
movie without John Wayne in it?)
Book everyone should read (Especially university presidents)
West With The Night (Beryl Markham)
Best symphony music: Under the Southern Cross
(Rodgers)
Best bumper sticker (On a pickup truck
in logging country in Washington State.)
| "Are you an environmentalist or do you work for a living?" |
Best played the loudest: Werewolves
of London; Grizzly Bear (Youngbloods)
Best Country album: Sweethearts of the Rodeo
Best Western album: Sweethearts of the Rodeo
Best voices: Emmylou Harris, John Anderson
Best arrangements: Buffalo Springfield - Retrospective
Most overdue theme: Goodbye Earl (Dixie Chicks)
Most overdue quote of 2006 "We are smarter than the
people leading us." (Imus)
Best quote by a teacher - 2005: "If your mother is
still driving you to school, you are not a gangsta';
so pull up your pants, tuck in your shirt, and get to class."
Best botany quote: "Physicists, chemists, biologists
and even mathematicians represent in the public mind the
potential to do good - or great evil. But you don't expect botanists
to win the Nobel Prize and...you don't
expect them to destroy the world one day." (Karl Sabbagh
- A Rum Affair)
Good school quote: "Academic institutuions have always
been nests of vipers; who among the snakes would
not have seized the new opportunities offered by simply filling
in a form and checking who your
great-great-great grandfather was?" (Christopher Hale)
Best travel book: Les Enfants
du capitaine Grant, "The Children of Captain Grant"
Jules
Verne
Interests: Sailing, surfing, diving, biking, photography,
artolatry.
Member: Sons of the American Revolution
*Motto: "No one will attack me with impunity."
(Translationem vulgarus: It's like spitting at a fan...It
will come right back at you.)
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