Comments on: Alissa’s Top 5 http://blogs.haverford.edu/hkwlab/2010/07/12/alissas-top-5/ Just another News.haverford.edu weblog Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:23:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Joe Rogers http://blogs.haverford.edu/hkwlab/2010/07/12/alissas-top-5/comment-page-1/#comment-220 Joe Rogers Fri, 16 Jul 2010 19:39:25 +0000 http://blogs.haverford.edu/blogs/hkwlab/2010/07/12/alissas-top-5/#comment-220 Greetings, Alissa. I was a chem major at HC, class of 1960. Went on to a PhD at Cornell (biogenesis of p-benzoquinone insect defensive secretions), taught organic and biochem at Carleton and Earlham, was VP of the Great Lakes Colleges Assoc, worked for two years in university relations at ERDA/US Dept of Energy, and spent my last twenty years of employment at the American Chemical Society in DC, most of that time as head of The Petroleum Research Fund, funding faculty research at colleges and uinversities.

In retirement, we enjoy our “simple four bathroom cottage” on Farilee Creek, and are near the Chesapeake Bay, near Chestertown, MD. I conduct some simple analyses of the slightly-brackish creek water. We have a 100′ pier, and it would be a good site to collect rain water from a non-urban location. Also, we have a very deep loose sediment under our pier (very dark, soft – we needed 30′ pilings to support the pier). This sediment seems not to have been disturbed, so the layers might say useful things about changes in the organic matter over time.

In retirement, I’m on the board of three national Quaker organizations in the Phila area, and make frequent trips to Phila, so I might be able to deliver samples, if that could assist your research. We could also provide a bed if you wished to take any samples in this area. We have a river and streams draining agricultural areas, plus the (slightly salt) Ches Bay available (and I have several boats).

Joe Rogers

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