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I started this website for several reasons ... (1) to make certain running information readily available to section III fans and (2) to provide a ranking and analysis of running performances that is not available anywhere else. I'm a 1968 graduate of Tully High. During the 1970's, I sent a fair amount of time training for the decathlon ... overall, I was barely mediocre with top scores in the lower to mid 6000s. However, I was able to meet many great track people and learn from them. I learned a great deal about weight lifting (and how it helps in track) from Liverpool Coach Oscar Jensen (Oscar is now the Baldwinsville boys track coach). In contrast to most high school coaches, I'm not a school teacher ... I'm an environmental scientist with degrees from Clarkson University ... I've outlined my professional career below. I work for Syracuse Research Corporation (Environmental Science Center) as an environmental scientist. Our main corporate website is available at www.syrres.com and our Center website is esc.syrres.com ... I developed and maintain portions of the Center website (Estimation Software and sections of the Databases). Primary funding for the Environmental Science Center comes from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other regulatory agencies. Funding from private industries (chemical and pharmaceutical firms) has been increasing. My major responsibility is development of methodology and computer software to predict physical and chemical properties of organic compounds for assessment of environmental fate and transport. The software I've developed is used by the U.S. EPA (evaluation of Toxic Substances Control Act and pre-manufacture chemicals), German EPA, Danish EPA, and other governmental regulatory agencies around the world. Software sales has occurred in more than 30 countries. Pharmaceutical firms use the software for high-throughput screening and combinatorial chemistry during the drug design evaluation. I maintain large chemical property databases that I use for data analysis and pattern recognition ... I've made several databases available for free use to scientists around the world via the Internet. I'm the primary author of nearly a dozen scientific journal articles describing chemical structure estimation methodologies. Articles have been published in peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Environmental Science & Technology, Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry, and Chemosphere. I'm the co-author of two books ["Handbook of Environmental Degradation Rates" (Lewis Publishers) and "Handbook of Physical Properties of Organic Compounds (CRC Press)] and contributing author to about half a dozen other books. I also peer-review several manuscript submissions for various journals each year. I have written the Environmental section for about 300 chemicals in the National Library of Medicine's Hazardous Substances Databank (HSDB). |
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