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Website Geek |
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mduke@u.washington.edu |
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Greetings and best fishes to you! I am a web developer, editor, and information specialist for the University of Washington School of Aquatic & Fishery Sciences. My actual job title is Public Information Editor, but ... "What does that mean?" Here's a run-down of what I do at the school.
Web Geek
I develop and manage the School's website, including the homepage and numerous other components (e.g., personnel lists, publication citation lists, research profiles, research program sites, faculty homepages). In addition to helping faculty and staff with website development and troubleshooting, I also can assist students and staff to a limited extent. Along with rendering graphics, I also develop PHP/MySQL applications and employ jQuery to enhance website interactivity and other functions.
I also administer the SAFS web server. So if you want to host content at fish.washington.edu, please contact me to obtain an account. Please note we do require all SAFS-hosted sites to be relevant to the SAFS program in some capacity.
Currently, I am starting to explore content management system solutions so that faculty, staff and students can create and maintain their own content without having to build a website from scratch. As a compromise, I have just recently completed a Dreamweaver template-based tutorial and starter file kit to enable SAFS members to easily create websites that use the SAFS faculty homesite design (e.g., go to http://fish.washington.edu/profiles and click any faculty website link).
Websites Built (and Sometimes Designed) by Me
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SAFS |
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SAFS Faculty Website (faculty homesites) |
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Birdfish Lab |
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SAFS Endowments |
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SAFS Hatchery |
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Alaska Salmon Program |
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Gallucci Shark Lab website |
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UW Marine Biology |
Information Specialist
My 30+ years at Aquatic & Fishery Sciences enables me to filter and direct queries to the people and resources that can most likely provide the information being requested. So, you want to know why some salmon turn red when they shift into their spawning phase? You want to know where to get information on starting a pond aquaculture venture? You want to know who to call when you need to identify an aquatic species? Well, if I don't have the answer immediately at hand, I can often find it through my network of resources.
Editor
I am responsible for writing, editing and producing school publications. Currently, this mostly entails promotional and informational (e.g., newsletters) literature for the web and print. In the past, I have edited peer-review articles and produced about 10 books from 1987 through 2009.
References
Wissmar, RC, PA Bisson (eds.), M Duke (tech. ed.). 2003. Strategies for Restoring River Ecosystems: Source of Variability and Uncertainty in Natural and Managed Systems. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, Maryland.
Pikitch, EK, DD Huppert, MP Sissenwine (eds.), M Duke (assoc. ed.). 1997. Global Trends: Fisheries Management. American Fisheries Society Symposium 20. Bethesda, Maryland.
Pikitch, EK, MP Sissenwine, DD Huppert, M Duke. 1997. Summing up: an overview of global trends in fisheries, fisheries science, and fisheries management. Pages 275-278 in Pikitch, EK, DD Huppert, MP Sissenwine (eds.), M Duke (assoc. ed.), Global Trends: Fisheries Management. American Fisheries Society Symposium 20. Bethesda, Maryland.
Stouder, DJ, PA Bisson, RJ Naiman (eds.), M Duke (assoc. ed.). 1997. Pacific Salmon and Their Ecosystems: Status and Future Options. Chapman & Hall, New York.
Stouder, DJ, KL Fresh, RJ Feller (eds.), M Duke (assist. ed.). 1994. Theory and Application in Fish Feeding Ecology. Belle W. Baruch Library in Marine Science 18. Univ. South Carolina Press.
Computer Maven
I provide consultation regarding use of Adobe and Microsoft programs. For questions about computer hardware, site-license software installation, and network administration, please send email to safshelp@uw.edu.
Pet Site—A Word a Day
By far one of my favorite websites is Anu Garg's "A Word a Day"—a veritable treasure trove, nay, a virtual cornucopia for linguaphiles. For your entertainment, I've linked to their daily offering page below; click the link to get the definition and to access other parts of this most excellent site:
Does I Have a Life?
Chyeh! Despite the long hours at Aquatic & Fishery Sciences, I do find time for other activities. I've been a performing musician for nearly 40 years. I studied classical piano as a youth and all my schooling was at institutions specializing in music (Performing Arts High School [featured in the movie "Fame"], Juilliard School of Music, and Mannes College). But, since the late '60s, I have mostly played rock/r&b (mostly on electric bass), jazz, and for the last 15 years or so, have focused especially on reggae, latin (Afro-Cuban, Brazilian), and African styles. Currently, I play with a cover band that features 60's R&B and Motown dance music. I also am working on a solo CD project that I hope to release late 2010 or early 2011 (or...some time). By solo, I mean I composed and arranged all the music, but the recordings bring together musicians I've known from as long ago as the late 1960s to people I just met this year.
Previously, I released three instrumental records of my own, with the group "Nothin' Sirius," in the '70s when I was a studio musician in LA, performed on about a dozen other records, and also released a CD with an instrumental group—Somewhere In Between—in 1991. Currently, I have been dabbling with acoustic steel-string finger-picking for my own pleasure (much easier to carry a guitar around then electric keyboards, ya know), and study virtuosos like Bruce Cockburn, Michael Hedges, and the master of them all, Ralph Towner.
I'm also an avid outdoor recreationalist, and have kayaked all over the Pac NW and even hauled our aging Klepper foldboat to the Everglades and Hawaii. And finally, I am a total nut for palindromes. Favorites include the evocative, Dali-esque "Emil asleep, peels a lime," and the reference to Napolean's island exile, "Able was I ere I saw Elba." Palindrome resources on the internet are available, but if you want to read some extraordinary, creative and I believe truly original examples, read Barbara Kingsolver's Poisonwood Bible.
Earth Calling Marcus!
If you wish to contact me, try any of the following:
Tel: 206-543-4678; Fax: 206-685-7471
Email: mduke@u.washington.edu