Hitched a ride on a tractor to catch a bus out of Larabanga, Ghana. Missed the bus. Camped in a hurricane on a tiny peninsula on Tor Bay in Nova Scotia. In the morning the locals came to see what the storm washed up and found it included several wet, cranky American kids.

What do living organisms, soda bottle vortices and nebulae have in common? If you're interested I'll talk your ear off about non-equilibrium thermodynamics, the second law, self-organized criticality and gradient reduction theory.

Diverse interests, music to thermodynamics and everything in between