I am a native of Iowa who spent a number of years earning degrees in geography at the University of Kansas and Kansas State University. My Ph.D. is from Kansas State University. I enjoy traveling, learning about the natural and human world around me, music, college basketball, wide open spaces, and most food. The photo below was taken while harvesting wheat in Kansas during the summer of 2008.

 

" Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free....we go eastward to realize history and study the works of art and literature,

retracing the steps of the race; we go westward as into the future, with a spirit of enterprise and adventure" - Henry David Thoreau