Mike Huben
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[[Image:Haemactis sanguinalis, female (Blood-Red Skipper).jpg|thumb|Haemactis sanguinalis, female (Blood-Red Skipper)]] | [[Image:Haemactis sanguinalis, female (Blood-Red Skipper).jpg|thumb|Haemactis sanguinalis, female (Blood-Red Skipper)]] | ||
Right now, I'm in transition from teaching in the US to becoming an entomologist in Ecuador. You can read about it in my new blog [http://ecuadormetamorphosis.blogspot.com Metamorphosis]. I am engaged to [http://www.neotropicos.net/ Alina Freire Fierro]. | Right now, I'm in transition from teaching in the US to becoming an entomologist in Ecuador. You can read about it in my new blog [http://ecuadormetamorphosis.blogspot.com Metamorphosis]. I am engaged to [http://www.neotropicos.net/ Alina Freire Fierro]. | ||
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| + | == Entomology and Evaniidae == | ||
| + | [[Image:MouseMites.jpg|thumb|Mouse skin mites using Jamin-Lebedeff interference microscopy.]] | ||
| + | One of my true loves has always been [[Entomology]]. I used to specialize in [[Acarology]] (the study of mites), and built a collection of a thousand slide-mounted specimens (and who knows how many more in alcohol that I've never mounted.) I've got a substantial number of colorful mite photographs that I've always wanted to publish, photographed by my friends in the New York Microscopical Society and me. After my last sabbatical collecting insects in Ecuador (1988), I finally settled on my current specialization, the [[Evaniidae]] (a family of wasps that parasitize cockroach egg cases.) I study these at the [http://www.mcz.harvard.edu/ Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology] on an unofficial basis. I'm also a member of the [http://entclub.org/ Cambridge Entomological Club]. | ||
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| + | One of the fun aspects of being a wide-ranging collector is that [[Species|my collections are used for describing species.]] | ||
| + | [[Image:Neochlamisus gibbosus.jpg|thumb|A warty leaf beetle, Neochlamisus gibbosus (Fabricius, 1777). Looks just like my car did!]] | ||
| + | I have always named my cars: my previous Scion xB is named Neoclamisus because it looks like the beetle. | ||
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| + | == Biography == | ||
| + | [[Image:OldMikePic.jpg|thumb|Age 18, working in the genetics lab at Cornell.]] | ||
| + | I grew up in Plainview, NY (on Long Island.) I was thrilled to escape to Cornell University where I studied plant breeding, botany, entomology, and computer science. I had many part-time jobs there, working in a genetics lab (photo), the botanical greenhouses, the insect collection and the computer labs. I was a brother in Triangle Fraternity (see: Revenge Of the Nerds.) I worked 3 years for Control Data in NY City, then Minneapolis, and then took a year-long road trip around the US collecting insects and mites in 1981. I moved to Boston, worked six more years, then took a 7 month trip to Ecuador to collect more insects and mites in 1987. I returned to Boston and immediately married, bought a house in Arlington, and worked in software until I changed to teaching high school in 2005. Right now, I'm in transition from teaching in the US to becoming an entomologist in Ecuador. You can read about it in my new blog [http://ecuadormetamorphosis.blogspot.com Metamorphosis]. | ||
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| + | == Family == | ||
| + | [[Image:Huben Family.jpg|thumb|Mike, Carol, Robert and Peggy.]] | ||
| + | When I married in '88, my ex-wife Peggy and I both changed our name to Huben (mine used to be Huybensz.) Our daughter Carol was born in '90, and our son Robert was born in '93. As of 2015: | ||
| + | * Peggy teaches Chemistry in Somerville. | ||
| + | * Carol is a graduate student at U. Mass. Amherst. | ||
| + | * Robert is a doctoral candidate in mathematics at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. | ||
| + | * I am engaged to [http://www.neotropicos.net/ Alina Freire Fierro]. | ||
| + | [[Image:Alina and Mike cropped.jpg|thumb|Alina and Mike.]] | ||
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Some [[Recreational Math Problems]]. | Some [[Recreational Math Problems]]. | ||
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* I have a small index of writings against various [[Creationism]] arguments. | * I have a small index of writings against various [[Creationism]] arguments. | ||
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