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Gender	Male
Industry	Religion
Occupation	Deacon, Catholic Parish; Geoscience Research and Consulting
Location	Arvada, Colorado, United States
Introduction	Husband, father, grandfather, Catholic deacon, Secular Franciscan. Continuing to do research in geophysics and geology, especially plate tectonics of western South America and hotspots.
Interests	Geoscience: Fractals, plate tectonics (including reconstrucitons hotspots, intracontinental stresses, with interpretive console software). Faith and reason, science and art: consilience via fractals and information entropy: paradigms, musical theater, natural selection, and earthquakes as primary exemplars.
Favorite movies	All Astaire/Rogers, Marx Brothers, Cary Grant with either Hepburn, American in Paris, Band Wagon, Casablanca, 2001, Lord of the Rings, and (yes) Harry Potter series.
Favorite music	70's light rock, Gershwin, Copland, Ravel, Debussy, Porter, Rodgers & Hart/Hammerstein, Lerner/Loewe, Rimsky-Korsakov, Mussorgsky, Borodin, Beethoven, Wagner,
Favorite books	Gospels of John and Mark, Bonaventure's Itinerarium, Lord of the Rings, Pride & Prejudice (everything Austen)