Rebecca Clayton's Biographical Sketch
Places I've Lived
- Two miles north of Cromwell, Iowa
- Ames, Iowa
- Storrs, Connecticut
- Washington, D.C. Metropolitan area, including Arlington, Virginia and The People's Republic of Takoma Park (Maryland)
- Pocahontas County, West Virginia
Jobs I've Had (see my on-line resume for details)
- Newspaper proofreader, technical editor
- Sorter of dead mosquitoes and ceratapogonid midges
- Insect collection technician
- Zoo-keeper's assistant
- College instructor
- Teacher of all subjects, for all ages, K-12 subject matter
- Molecular geneticist
- Bacteriologist
- Bioinformatician
Subjects I've Taught
- Introductory Biology for Biology Majors, labs and lectures
- Entomology labs
- Scanning Electron Microscopy
- Adult Basic Education, including math from addition through algebra and reading and writing at every level
- Chemistry for student nurses
- Basic Statistics
- Word Processing and Spread Sheets
Computer Experience
- Fortran programming course, 1976: The joys of a public keypunch area
- Life in Unix Big Iron Land, running Xedit and SAS
- Exile to DOS and Apple OS's
- The joys of GNU Unix on Sun workstations
- Some unpleasant exposure to Microsoft Windows
- A return to *nix Nirvana via OSX and Linux
Fiber Arts Interests and Experience
- Sewing--garment construction, quilting
- Knitting
- Spinning wool yarn for knitters
Natural History Interests
- Heteroptera, the True Bugs (accept no substitutes!)
- The Burgess Shale
- Trilobites
- Mushrooms of West Virginia
- Nature writing, particularly of Aldo Leopold, Loren Eiseley, Edwin Way Teale, Rachel Carson
Musical Interests and Obsessions
- Baroque flute music
- English concertina
- Clawhammer banjo
Meaning of My Life