An introduction...
I started work at PGP on 1 April 2006, having just moved from
Los Alamos,
New Mexico, USA. I am group coordinator for the
Fluid Processes Group, in which
we try to understand interactions between rocks and fluids and how these
contribute to forming the patterns we see in Earth’s crust. For more
information, please see the link at left.
I am married to Susan Gisler, a pediatric
nurse practitioner. We live in
Lørenskog, a suburb
15 km east of Oslo, and a lovely community.
Susan is actively studying the Norwegian language, and plans to work here
when she can speak and understand it well enough.
We have been married for 23+
years, and have lived most of our married life in Los Alamos.
The move to Norway has been a major adventure for us, and we are very excited about the
new opportunities it presents. We have two children: Andy will soon (May 2008) graduate
from Yale University with a Batchelor's degree in Physics, and Ellie is in her second year
at the University of Connecticut studying vocal performance.
Our children visit us here in Norway frequently
on their breaks from studies, and we get back to the US to see them when we can. We also have
a dog, Tipper, a noble but aging mutt, who bravely traveled alone on Continental Airlines
to meet us in September 2006. Tipper has adapted well to her new home (she has always loved snow!),
and enjoys all the new and exciting smells we meet on our walks. She learned, after a single
encounter, to avoid stinging nettles.
Susan and I are both amateur musicians and actors. She plays piano, guitar,
hammered dulcimer, flute, and pennywhistle, and I play piano, harp, and recorders.
We both sing, as well.
We performed with several musical ensembles in Northern New Mexico, including
the Celtic folk band Bonnie Bedlam, the Santa Fe Early Music Ensemble, and the
St James Carolers. Susan led a children's choir at the Los Alamos Unitarian Church,
and I participated in the adult choir there.
We both acted in plays and musicals presented by the Los Alamos Little Theater
and the Los Alamos Light Opera. Sometimes our children performed with us as well.
Here in Norway I am singing with the
Akademisk Korforening
and Susan sings with the Lørenskog Damekor.
We love outdoor activities, especially hiking and skiing. We are happy
that snow conditions are more reliable here in
Norway than they were in the Southern Rocky Mountains, though we sometimes miss the abundance
of sunny days for skiing that the mountains of New Mexico offered.
Here are some pictures of us before we moved to Oslo.
Here are some pictures of us since we moved to Oslo.
And here are some pictures some of our favorite places in the world.
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