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Hello, I'm a geologist. I've been married to my wife Susan for 40+ years. We have two grown sons.

I grew up in Stirling and Millington, New Jersey, USA. USMC 1 1/2 tours RVN March 66 to October 67. While on active duty I visited, besides Vietnam, Oahu, Hong Kong and Okinawa.

In Stirling we lived 100 meters from what is now the southern edge of the Great Swamp NWR managed area. Then it was our friends' farms.

My parents, Lou and Peg Smart, were very active in saving the Great Swamp. My Dad, my brothers and I used to pole our Arkansas Traveler boat all through it. My Mom was in charge of finding us with the station wagon when it got dark.


In graduate school at Princeton I was privileged to take classes from Robert MacArthur, John Terborgh, and John Endler, and to do field work in Kenya and Ethiopia. My wife and I traveled through Africa, India, Europe, and the Caribbean.

I spent much of my career at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. I worked for a time for Frank Gill and knew Andy Mack and Mark Robbins. Our two sons went with us during field seasons.

I am presently a geology professor at Kean University in New Jersey, but along the way have worked in the Oil Industry (for Shell Exploration, and as a geophysics contractor for Conoco) and have consulted for the Mining Industry (Amax, Alcoa). Besides Europe and Africa, we also worked throughout Asia, the Caribbean, Northern South America, India, the South Pacific, and nearly every state in the union. We have never been to Australia or Antarctica; maybe next year.