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President, Merrimack Valley Amateur Radio Association, Inc.
I was first licensed as KN1EHZ in 1958 at 14. My first job at 16 was servicing marine radios along the Connecticut coast. I now hold an Extra class amateur radio license. My formal education centered on biology, with a bachelor’s degree from Lafayette College, and MA and PhD degrees in biological oceanography from Johns Hopkins University. My career includes 10 years oceanographic research at Johns Hopkins, 21 years active and reserve service in the US Army, and 26 years academic administration at Harvard University from which I retired as associate dean in 2009. After retiring from Harvard I joined the Amateur Radio Emergency Service, a program of the American Radio Relay League. Subsequently, a group of amateur radio colleagues and I formed the Merrimack Valley Amateur Radio Association, Inc., a 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation to support emergency communications and community service. In addition to being a member of the American Radio Relay League, my professional society memberships are the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography.
