Well - Friends... after 37-years on the faculty with Kent State University Geology Department I have retired as of May 31, 2013. It was a long haul... but about that, perhaps at another time...
For now, what a retired professor, who is still in vertical and have the stuff between his two ears still working to do...? A rocking chair? ...nah! There are still things to do and places to go...
I am a happy recipient of research/teaching grant from Fulbright Foundation to spend the academic year 2013-14 in ...Siberia(!) Well - I know, that name is associated with a terrible history and freezing cold. But, in the year 2009 I went there for "a reconnaissance" and since developed close ties with the Geology Department at Tomsk Polytechnic University in the City of Tomsk, Russia. I know that the colleagues at the Department of Geology, where I will be teaching during Fall-semester Applied Hydrogeology and during Spring-semester Contaminant Hydrogeology are preparing a warm welcome for me.
Also, Tomsk is located a stone-throw from the Vasyugan Mire, which is the largest boreal wetland in the world. It will be fun to compare the chemical analyses of water samples collected by my colleagues there during the last decade and the Landsat images of the area throughout the last 30-years.
Well - that's all for now... I have to look for flight arrangements... Cheers,
Yoram