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About

I joined Australian Age of Dinosaurs in July 2009 as Chief of Operations. Yes, Australia finally has some big and exciting dinosaurs—check out the AAOD website.

I have a PhD in molecular geneticis and worked in academia as a research scientist. Following that I worked in the the biotech industry for companies that provide instrumentation and reagents for genetic analysis.

My family home with wife, daughter, and an Italian greyhound (that's a type of dog) is on the Gold Coast in sunny Queensland, Australia, although I spend most of my days working on The Jump-Up in outback Australia, home of Australian Age of Dinosaurs.

I've been collecting and building dinosaur skeletons since 2003. It keeps me entertained.

Aquaria

My other interest is naturalistic planted aquaria (also known as Nature Aquaria). I don't own a tank at the moment but this is a temporary hiatus. As a hobby for naturalist technophiles like me I can recommend it. My most recent aquarium (below) featured a custom built CO2 injection system, metal halide lights, dawn-to dusk (and even moonlight) lighting, undergravel heating, surface skimming, automatic waterchange, automatic feeding, UV water sterilization, etc. The plants literally "fizz" oxygen bubbles into the water when the main lights are on—very beautiful but it means a lot of gardening work as plants grow quickly! Half the fun is collecting and trading rare plants. One thing you learn however, is that any plant or fish looks great when healthy and happy. One day I might create a nature aquaria website.