Work
1982 - 2011 Partnership Martin & Riener. Recent contract work 1998 - present has been primarily as science-support technician, providing electronics-tech and information-tech (computer / data) as well as operational services aboard oceanographic- and hydrographic research vessels.
1990 - 1998 -- provided services as radio officer (radiotelegraph operator) aboard research, commercial, and fishing vessels.
1982 - 1990 -- Early contracts were mainly resource-management service contracts for government agencies, including maintenance and construction work on trails, cabins, airstrips, and recreation facilities; fire lookout; and boundary surveying.
1977 - 1982 Field work with helicopter-portable geophysical exploration crews in the western U.S.

Formal education
2006 - Received New Zealand International Doctoral Research Scholarship; began studies at University of Otago July 2006. Area of research: the physics of information, and the relation between spatial- and temporal "order". Suspended enrolment July 2009.
2004 - Master of Science, Oregon State University. Major: Geography; minor: Oceanography. Thesis: "Spatial Interpolation in Other Dimensions".
1977 - Bachelor of Arts, University of New Mexico. Major: Spanish language; minor: Philosophy. Secondary teacher certification: General Science, Mathematics, and Spanish.

Self-taught
Higher math; electronics and radio communications (signal and power engineering and circuit-building, practical skills such as motor-rewinding, Morse telegraphy, etc.); computer: hardware and software familiarity including Mac, Windows, and UNIX/Linux systems; programming skills including C, AWK, Perl, and other scripting, HTML, Fortran, etc.; Matlab and Octave, GMT, LaTeX, various GIS; common office and imagery programs; various crafts, mechanics (auto, machinery, building, welding); skills associated with cruising / navigating under sail; ecological agriculture and land/wildlife conservation (managing 700 acre property in northeast Oregon).

Miscellaneous credientials, current and past
FAA private airman, single-engine land / sea; FCC 1st-class radiotelegraph; FCC Extra-class Amateur Radio; USCG Radio Officer.

Publications:

• "Difference principle and black-hole thermodynamics", unpublished. arXiv:0906.4849v1, 2009.
• "Space, freedom, and law: Maybe space is all that matters", Proceedings of the 19th Annual Colloquium of the Spatial Information Research Centre (Dunedin, New Zealand, December 6 - 7, 2007): 71-80, 2007.
• "Gravity from a probabilistic point of view", American Institute of Physics Conference Proceedings 954 (MaxEnt 2007 conference of Bayesian Inference and Maximum Entopy methods in physics and engineering, Saratoga Springs, New York, July 8 - 13, 2007): 185-192, 2007.
• "Probability as a Physical Motive", Entropy, 9: 42-57, 2007.
• "Spatial analysis through the looking glass", Solstice (Journal of the Institute of Mathematical Geography), 18(1), June, 2007.
• "Beginning research on the quantification of spatial order", Proceedings, SIRC 2006 18:109-125.
• "Cross-discipline analogy: Information impedance matching" , Solstice, 15(2), December, 2004.
• "Energy flow and spatial and temporal patterns", Solstice, 15(1), June, 2004.
• "Southern ice: Commentary on shipboard remote sensing in Antarctica", Backscatter (Journal of the Alliance for Marine Remote Sensing), 11(3), 36-38, 2000.

Professional membership: IEEE, IEEE Ocean Engineering Society, IEEE Information Theory Society.