Personal Statement:

More Cowbell!

Research interests:

Most of my time over the last several years has been spent working on the Little River Canyon Visitor Center and Field Schools. This $7 million dollar facility, all from outside grant money, opened in February of 2009. Now that the building phase is over, my activities have shifted to developing educational programs. This has included the construction of a series of interpretive nature trails, the re-location of an 1853 log cabin, and the accumulation and restoration of various artifacts from the early 19th century, including a loom and a cotton gin.

In a more scholarly vein, I presented a paper entitled "Establishing a date for the construction of a mid-19th century cotton gin-carder" at the southeastern regional meeting of the Association of American Geographers, and I am in the process of developing a proposal, along with the Alabama Geological Survey, mapping division, for the first ever geological mapping of Little River Canyon - a project that will be remarkably difficult and probably require me to be dangled by a rope off numerous cliffs.

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