My 30-year class re-union is this Saturday. To update those who knew me in high school, since that time I - kept climbing. - went to the UW to study physics and math. - briefly went to grad school at the U of Georgia, where I met a really amazing physicist from Chile. - continued grad school at the U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where I met an interesting woman from Japan. - continued grad school at the UW, where I shifted my field of study into "ice physics" and "cloud physics", graduated, and married that woman from Japan. - kept climbing, and got a bit of flak for giving names to new climbing routes that were "longer than the routes themselves". - went to a national research center in Boulder, CO to grow tiny snow crystals in a small laboratory chamber that I built from assorted scrap parts. - got a job as an assistant professor at the U of Arizona, where I taught students about weather, climate, and clouds, all the while trying to continue with the snow-crystal growth experiments. - left all that behind and moved to Japan to work as an independent scientific editor from a self-built hut. - worked at a private university in Japan, where I taught students how to write like a scientist or engineer. - spent many a winter's morning photographing frost and ice formations around my house in Japan. - helped a nature photographer in Michigan write a children's book about the science of snow ("The story of snow: the science of winter's wonder"). - got a job for a small electron-microscope company in Kirkland, WA, where I now work, trying to design and build the latest thing in electron microscopy. I like to photograph ice formations and sky phenomenon. Some of my stuff I post on my blog at http://www.storyofsnow.com/blog1.php You can also contact me through my blog.
