About+Mr.+M

Greetings students! I was a wildlife biologist for 15 years before I became a Middle School science teacher. I worked on many different projects around the USA including birds in deciduous forests, fish in the Oregon mountains, lizards and snakes in Southern California and birds and mammals in Nicaragua. I spent 4 years working with my wife, another teacher and biologist, studying birds, plants and habitat loss in the Grand Canyon National Park. I had some amazing experiences tracking lynx, coming to face to face with a mountain lion and handling poisonous rattlesnakes and much more. Science rules!!

I taught 5th grade for 3 years in Tucson and then spent another 3 years teaching middle school science. This is my second year at Chadwick International and I love it! We have a long-term monitoring project studying the local birds and habitat loss. I am the organizer of our huge school garden which includes 4 compost bins and a big chicken house with chickens!! We will be getting a bee hive this spring to help our pollination in the garden. I'm also an avid mountain biker and spend my weekends either biking or bird watching or both. Living in Korea means we can travel to many different places in Asia and have been to Borneo, Malaysia, New Zealand and Cambodia so far. It's a sweet life and I'm glad you can be apart of it!