Experience

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  Contract Work making wine for wineries and farms

  • Clark and Cowlitz Counties WA and Columbia Gorge Wineries OR/WA

  • Wine Maker

    • Aug 2007 - Present
    • Clark and Cowlitz Counties WA and Columbia Gorge Wineries OR/WA

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  Confluence Winery

  • Wine Maker

    • 2007 - Present

    Charged with sourcing grapes and wine making chemicals and equipment, making and shepherding the wine from grape, though aging, to bottling.

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  Various

  • Clark County WA

  • Wine Maker

    • Aug 1999 - Present
    • Clark County WA

    Multiple occasions assisting winemakers at wineries and home winemakers with batch improvement and flaw detection and solutions

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  Earth Resources Inc

  • Clark County Washington

  • Owner

    • Nov 1985 - Present
    • Clark County Washington

    Thirty years of growing wine grape varietals and assisting others to start or recover vineyards

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  Pheasant Valley Winery

  • Winemaker

    • 2009 - 2010

    Charged with sourcing wine making chemicals and making and shepherding the 2009wine from grape, though aging, to bottling, plus similar activity related to 2007-2008 vintages.

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  U. S. Geological Survey

  • Research Geologist

    • Jul 1967 - 1999

    1967-1977---Mapping, Petrology, Geochemistry related to porphyry copper mineralization and mines in Arizona and Washington--Project Chief of several projects though most of that time plus regional mapping in the Tucson Arizona area.1977-1983--Staff Geologist at the Hawaii Volcanoes Observatory working with team that monitored and forecast eruptive activity of Kilauea and Mauna Loa Volcano, plus assignments to other areas and volcano teams around the Pacific including Korea, Japan, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, the Northern Mariana Islands and Mount Saint Helens Washington.1983-1985--Project Chief mapping the SW Rift Zone of Kilauea Volcano Hawaii, plus plus assignments to other areas and volcano teams around the Pacific including assisting with eruptions in the Marianas, Indonesia, and The Phillippines.1985-1992--Project Chief of the USGS Volcano Crisis Assistance Team and of the USGS/OFDA Volcano Disaster Assistance Program which assisted or formed national volcano teams to prepare for and respond to volcanic crises and eruptions around the Pacific with emphasis on Mexico, Central America, and South America, including several high profile eruptions.1992-1994--Science Officer in the US Embassy in Santiago Chile charged with reporting to and advising the Ambassador and State Department on all scientific, technical, environmental, and medical fields and happenings in Chile and some adjacent countries and areas including Antarctica.1994-1999--Project Chief of mapping areas near Mount Rainier in Washington state.