Monday, May 23, 2005
Change of E-Mail address
Please note that my e-mail address is changing. Please use joanarnfield@gmail.com for all communications from now on.
Here I am today. I'm wondering whether I should turn it completely white!
Here's our trip list from our recent birding foray to Lake Erie. We stayed in Port Clinton, Ohio and took the Jet Boat to Leamington, Ontario for a day at Pelee National Park. Because of the strong East-North-East winds most of the little birds were on the Ohio side and we had a couple of great days at Magee Marsh and Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge.
Trip List (5/11/2005 to 5/14/2005)
GREBES
Pied-billed Grebe
CORMORANTS
Double-crested Cormorant
DUCKS, SWANS, GEESE
Trumpeter Swan
Canada Goose
Mallard
Blue-winged Teal
HERONS, EGRETS AND BITTERNS
Snowy Egret
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
IBIS AND SPOONBILLS
Glossy Ibis
White-faced Ibis
NEW WORLD VULTURES
Turkey Vulture
HAWKS, EAGLES AND KITES
Bald Eagle
Cooper's Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
RAILS AND COOTS
American Coot
SANDPIPERS
Greater Yellowlegs
Least Sandpiper
Dunlin
PLOVERS AND LAPWINGS
Black-bellied Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Killdeer
GULLS AND TERNS
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Common Tern
PIGEONS AND DOVES
Mourning Dove
SWIFTS
Chimney Swift
HUMMINGBIRDS
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
WOODPECKERS
Red-headed Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
TYRANT FLYCATCHERS
Eastern Kingbird
CROWS AND JAYS
Blue Jay
American Crow
VIREOS AND ALLIES
Blue-headed Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Warbling Vireo
THRUSHES
Veery
Swainson's Thrush
Wood Thrush
American Robin
MOCKINGBIRDS AND THRASHERS
Gray Catbird
STARLINGS
European Starling
NUTHATCHES
Red-breasted Nuthatch
WRENS
House Wren
GNATCATCHERS
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
SWALLOWS
Tree Swallow
Purple Martin
Barn Swallow
KINGLETS
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
CHICKADEES, TITS
Black-capped Chickadee
OLD WORLD SPARROWS
House Sparrow
WAGTAILS AND PIPITS
American Pipit
SISKINS, CROSSBILLS AND ALLIES
American Goldfinch
NEW WORLD WARBLERS
Nashville Warbler
Northern Parula
Yellow Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Palm Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
American Redstart
Worm-eating Warbler
Ovenbird
Common Yellowthroat
BUNTINGS, SPARROWS, TANAGERS, ALLIES
Song Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Chipping Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
BLACKBIRDS, GRACKLES, ORIOLES
Baltimore Oriole
Orchard Oriole
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
Species seen - 84
Sunday, May 01, 2005
My Resume
JOAN M. ARNFIELD
E-Mail: joanarnfield@gmail.com
Current Position
I am now retired, although I sometimes take part-time consulting jobs helping people with the Ohio State University main-frame, web pages and other computer related problems.
Positions Held
Senior Systems Manager, Department of Sociology, The Ohio State University, 7/98 to 10/00
Working title: Lab and User Services Coordinator
I was the day-to-day manager of the Sociology Research Laboratory and I managed and developed the department's computer/user interface. This included user-interface design and maintenance; procurement, installation and maintenance of software; training of and consultation with faculty, staff and students on the use of this interface and its software; management of graduate teaching associates who help with maintenance and consultation and maintenance of network functions which directly impact on users.
Computer Specialist/Systems Manager, Department of Sociology, The Ohio State University, 1/90 to 6/98
Job involved the provision of software (both micro and main-frame) and hardware consultation to faculty, staff and students; equipment installation, documentation, maintenance, repair and inventory; software installation, documentation, and maintenance; presentation of workshops on departmental and university computer equipment and software; and maintenance and administration of the Sociology Department Banyan Network.
Laboratory Supervisor, Department of Geography, The Ohio State University, 9/84 to 1/90
Position included most of the jobs listed above, in addition to work on cartographic and micro-meteorological instrumentation, the departmental equipment and space inventories, helping to plan the renovation of Derby Hall and providing assistance to the State Climatologist.
Partner, WCMH-TV Weather Service, 5/82 to 8/84
Providing weather forecasts and other meteorological services to agriculture, broadcasting and construction industries.
Temporary teaching and research positions at The Ohio State University and Ohio Wesleyan University, 9/74 to 9/94
These include full responsibility teaching of Physical Geography and Programming courses, research assistant to the State Climatologist and Coordinator of the First International Symposium on Acid Precipitation and the Forest Ecosystem.
Prior to immigration to the U.S. in 1972 I held full time positions as a teaching assistant at Brock University in St. Catherines, Ontario and as the Circulation Supervisor in the Science Library at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.
Education
Atmospheric Sciences Program, The Ohio State University. Admitted to candidacy for the Ph.D., Spring 1979
Geography Department, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. M.A. degree awarded, November, 1971
Geography Department, University of Wales, University College of Swansea. B.Sc. Honours degree awarded, June 1967
South Hampstead High Schools for Girls (GPDST), London, England
Ecclesbourne Road Primary School, London, England
Awards Received
American Field Service Scholar to Bettendorf High School, Iowa, 1962-1963
Middlesex Major County Award, 1964-1967
Ontario Graduate Fellowship, 1967-1969
Community Activities
Numerous presentations to community organizations (Rotary, Kiwanis, Lions, Sierra Club, Girl Scouts, Garden clubs, elementary, middle and high school classes) from 1963 to present.
1996/2000 Membership Chair, Columbus Audubon Society
1997/2000 Member of Board of Trustees, Columbus Audubon Society
2003/present Database and GIS Volunteer for Audubon Ohio
Personal Activities
Nature study, hiking, travel, polymer clay modelling and domestic crafts
Personal Statement
I have been very fortunate in my study and work opportunities. On the one hand, my year as an exchange student in Bettendorf, Iowa and my jobs as librarian, salesperson, teacher and weather forecaster have taught me how to deal with both academics and members of the general public. I used this experience to teach workshops and to help members of my department solve their micro and main-frame computer problems. I also coordinated a university wide mailing list of computer professionals (DISTCONS) and have served on the Provost's Task Force for Implementation of the Computing Plan and the University Computer Guidelines Committee.
On the other hand, my experience as a graduate student along with my jobs in Geography and Sociology have given me a good background in computing. From the late '60s till the late '80s most of my computing experience was with main-frame FORTRAN programming. Since then my attention has turned to micro-computing, networking and database management, although I still help faculty and students with JCL and other main-frame computer problems. In Sociology I was part of a team of three full-time professional staff, eight graduate students and six undergraduate lab monitors who maintained three labs, seven network servers and fifty faculty/staff desktop PCs. I think of myself as a team-player, but took responsibility for the day-to-day running of the labs and the installation of networked software. I developed a departmental database for administrative use in addition to the Sociology Web Pages and on-line help system. Since "retiring" from Sociology I have done some work for OSU faculty transferring data from main-frame tape to PC based systems, assisting with data cleaning and manipulation and developing data bases.
Since retirement I have been working on volunteer projects. These included development of web pages for the Columbus Polymer Clay Guild and work on an Important Bird Areas Database and GIS for Audubon Ohio.
E-Mail: joanarnfield@gmail.com
Current Position
I am now retired, although I sometimes take part-time consulting jobs helping people with the Ohio State University main-frame, web pages and other computer related problems.
Positions Held
Senior Systems Manager, Department of Sociology, The Ohio State University, 7/98 to 10/00
Working title: Lab and User Services Coordinator
I was the day-to-day manager of the Sociology Research Laboratory and I managed and developed the department's computer/user interface. This included user-interface design and maintenance; procurement, installation and maintenance of software; training of and consultation with faculty, staff and students on the use of this interface and its software; management of graduate teaching associates who help with maintenance and consultation and maintenance of network functions which directly impact on users.
Computer Specialist/Systems Manager, Department of Sociology, The Ohio State University, 1/90 to 6/98
Job involved the provision of software (both micro and main-frame) and hardware consultation to faculty, staff and students; equipment installation, documentation, maintenance, repair and inventory; software installation, documentation, and maintenance; presentation of workshops on departmental and university computer equipment and software; and maintenance and administration of the Sociology Department Banyan Network.
Laboratory Supervisor, Department of Geography, The Ohio State University, 9/84 to 1/90
Position included most of the jobs listed above, in addition to work on cartographic and micro-meteorological instrumentation, the departmental equipment and space inventories, helping to plan the renovation of Derby Hall and providing assistance to the State Climatologist.
Partner, WCMH-TV Weather Service, 5/82 to 8/84
Providing weather forecasts and other meteorological services to agriculture, broadcasting and construction industries.
Temporary teaching and research positions at The Ohio State University and Ohio Wesleyan University, 9/74 to 9/94
These include full responsibility teaching of Physical Geography and Programming courses, research assistant to the State Climatologist and Coordinator of the First International Symposium on Acid Precipitation and the Forest Ecosystem.
Prior to immigration to the U.S. in 1972 I held full time positions as a teaching assistant at Brock University in St. Catherines, Ontario and as the Circulation Supervisor in the Science Library at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.
Education
Atmospheric Sciences Program, The Ohio State University. Admitted to candidacy for the Ph.D., Spring 1979
Geography Department, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. M.A. degree awarded, November, 1971
Geography Department, University of Wales, University College of Swansea. B.Sc. Honours degree awarded, June 1967
South Hampstead High Schools for Girls (GPDST), London, England
Ecclesbourne Road Primary School, London, England
Awards Received
American Field Service Scholar to Bettendorf High School, Iowa, 1962-1963
Middlesex Major County Award, 1964-1967
Ontario Graduate Fellowship, 1967-1969
Community Activities
Numerous presentations to community organizations (Rotary, Kiwanis, Lions, Sierra Club, Girl Scouts, Garden clubs, elementary, middle and high school classes) from 1963 to present.
1996/2000 Membership Chair, Columbus Audubon Society
1997/2000 Member of Board of Trustees, Columbus Audubon Society
2003/present Database and GIS Volunteer for Audubon Ohio
Personal Activities
Nature study, hiking, travel, polymer clay modelling and domestic crafts
Personal Statement
I have been very fortunate in my study and work opportunities. On the one hand, my year as an exchange student in Bettendorf, Iowa and my jobs as librarian, salesperson, teacher and weather forecaster have taught me how to deal with both academics and members of the general public. I used this experience to teach workshops and to help members of my department solve their micro and main-frame computer problems. I also coordinated a university wide mailing list of computer professionals (DISTCONS) and have served on the Provost's Task Force for Implementation of the Computing Plan and the University Computer Guidelines Committee.
On the other hand, my experience as a graduate student along with my jobs in Geography and Sociology have given me a good background in computing. From the late '60s till the late '80s most of my computing experience was with main-frame FORTRAN programming. Since then my attention has turned to micro-computing, networking and database management, although I still help faculty and students with JCL and other main-frame computer problems. In Sociology I was part of a team of three full-time professional staff, eight graduate students and six undergraduate lab monitors who maintained three labs, seven network servers and fifty faculty/staff desktop PCs. I think of myself as a team-player, but took responsibility for the day-to-day running of the labs and the installation of networked software. I developed a departmental database for administrative use in addition to the Sociology Web Pages and on-line help system. Since "retiring" from Sociology I have done some work for OSU faculty transferring data from main-frame tape to PC based systems, assisting with data cleaning and manipulation and developing data bases.
Since retirement I have been working on volunteer projects. These included development of web pages for the Columbus Polymer Clay Guild and work on an Important Bird Areas Database and GIS for Audubon Ohio.
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