Reply #90: Forrest Mims III : Condensed CV [View All]

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CONDENSED CV

UNIVERSITY DEGREE THE ONLY ONE

Bachelor of Arts, Texas A&M University (major in government with minors in English and history).

MILITARY SERVICE

United States Air Force air intelligence officer (Vietnam) and development engineer (Laser Division, Phillips Laboratory).

GOVERNMENT SERVICE

Appointed by Guadalupe County, Texas, Commissioner's Court as Air Quality Advisor and to represent the court on the AIR Technical Advisory and the AIR Advisory Committees of the Alamo Area Council of Governments (AACOG). Citizens Organized for Good Science is an important advocate of objective, high quality science by government agencies like AACOG.

TEXAS ACADEMY OF SCIENCE

Vice-Chairman, Environmental Science Section (2002-2004)

Chairman, Environmental Science Section (2005-present)

AWARDS

2005: Benjamin Franklin Citizen Scientist Award

1993: Rolex Award for Enterprise, Laureate (for a Global Network to Measure Ozone)

1993: Design 93 Engineering Achievement Award, Second Place (for a Miniature Instrument That Measures the Ozone Layer)

1987: Rolex Award for Enterprise, Honorable Mention (for Eyeglass-Mounted Electronic Travel Aid for the Blind)

1986: Best General Nonfiction Book, Computer Press Association, runner-up (for "Forrest Mims’ Computer Projects,"Osborne/McGraw-Hill, 1985)

1985: Best General Nonfiction Book, Computer Press Association, runner-up (for "Siliconnections," McGraw-Hill, 1985)

1972: Industrial Research 100 Award for Developnment of One of the 100 Most Significant New Technical Products of the Year (for Hand-Held Infrared Travel Aid for the Blind)

WRITING AND EDITORIAL ASSIGNMENTS

Jul 1970-present: Independent scientist, consultant and free-lance writer and photographer

Dec 2003-present: Editor of Society for Amateur Scientists E-Bulletin

Oct 1998-present: Columnist for Seguin Gazette-Enterprise

Nov 1994-1997: Contributing science writer for World

Nov 1990-Jan 1993: Editor and columnist for Science Probe!

Apr 1991-Mar 1992: Columnist for Computercraft

Oct 1984-Mar 1991: Columnist for Modern Electronics

Jun 1990-Oct 1990: Columnist for Scientific American

Mar 1984-Mar 1985: Columnist for Computers & Electronics

Oct 1975-Feb 1984: Columnist for Popular Electronics

Sep 1969-Nov 1970: Columnist for Model Rocketry

SELECTED CONSULTING ASSIGNMENTS

1980: National Geographic Society (proposed and assisted in development of exhibit in Explorer’s Hall recognizing invention of light-wave communications by Alexander Graham Bell)

1992-1998: Consultant, TERC, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts (develop high school educational curricula)

1995-2000: Consultant, Concord Consortium, Concord, Massachusetts (develop high school educational curricula)

1995-2001: Consultant, National Science Teachers Association (Finalist judge Duracell Competition and present teacher’s workshops on using atmospheric monitoring instruments)

1996-present: Consultant, Solar Light Company (technical advice; calibrate instruments which measure ozone and aerosols)

Aug 1995-Dec 1995: Consultant, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA (measured smoke effects from widespread burning in Brazil) Oct 1996-Dec 1996: Consultant, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA (measured smoke effects from forest fires in Western USA)

Aug 1997-Dec 1997: Consultant, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA (measured smoke effects from widespread burning in Brazil)

May 1998-present: Co-Principal Investigator, GLOBE (international network of 8,000 schools in 83 countries).

October 2000-2001: Consultant for comparison of atmospheric water vapor measurements from satellites and the surface, Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC), University of Wisconsin.

March 2004-present: Site operator for USDA UV-B and visible wavelength shadowband radiometers installed at Texas Lutheran University by Colorado State University.

TEACHING ASSIGNMENTS

1993-present: Teach experimental Earth science once or twice each year at the University of the Nations (Kona, Hawaii, and Lausanne, Switzerland).

1994: Distinguished visiting lecturer in the physical sciences, Colorado Christian University.

1994-present: Workshops on various aspects of hands-on science for secondary school science teachers.

1980-1982: Developed, wrote textbook and taught at various cities "A Practical Introduction to Lightwave Communications" for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

1970-present: Numerous talks on journalism and science at various universities, government meetings, service clubs, churches and both public and private secondary and primary schools.