Gerry's Personal and Biographical Web

Gerry in woods

My personal webpage includes a number of topics, especially current activities during my retirement.
More detail on these topics can be found at pages focused on my study of the salt marshes in Chatham and my works of sculpture.
For further discussion of topics from my life and work, see volume 18.Overview and Autobiographical Essays..
My CV documents my academic life in some detail.

Preserving Chatham's Salt Marshes

Since retiring to Cape Cod, I have been fascinated by the salt marshes, which are an important part of the local environment in many way.

I joined the Board of the local land trust, the Chatham Conservation Foundation, in 2017.
I was its Treasurer and served on its Executive Committee.
As chair of the Technology Committee, I updated the accounting system and the membership database.
To promote environmental restoration and preservation in the face of climate change, I started a Salt Marsh Task Force, which I chaired until I resigned from the Foundation in November 2021.

A year later, I joined the Energy and Climate Action Committee of the Town of Chatham, through appointment by the Select Board in September 2022. ECAC had determined that its major priority is to help preserve Chatham's salt marshes.
In October 2022, ECAC submitted a proposal I developed for a grant to support this effort.
In November and December 2022, I began to prototype a GIS map to identify potential migration areas for salt marshes in Chatham to migrate to in response to the rise of sea level and increasing storm intensity from climate change.
My work on ECAC is documented on my webpage about Preserving Chatham's Salt Marshes

catch.up.me

a sketchy overview of my life for those who missed significant segments

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a career in informatics

my relationship with computers, from toys to artifacts for philosophical reflection

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community development in Philadelphia

a history of the Southwest Germantown CDC (1978-1985)

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glimpses of my years at Drexel
(2002-2014)

some photos while I was a professor at Drexel University

retirement from Drexel
(2015)

I became an emeritus professor and had retirement events at Drexel and CSCL 2015

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Education

MIT, Heidelberg, Frankfurt, Northwestern, Colorado

Family & Friends

Carol Bliss, Rusty, Zake, Kimlou, Nastasja, Alan, Bill Hanauer, Ben, Evelyn

Christmas/New Year letters: 1999/2000, 2007/08, 2008/09, 2009/2010, 2010/2011, 2011/2012, 2012/2013, 2013/2014