The Guy Behind All This

    Hello!  I'm Justin Tweet, longtime resident of Cottage Grove, Minnesota.  I did my undergrad work at the University of St. Thomas and graduated in the spring of 2003 with a BA, Geology major and Biology minor.  I finished my MS at the University of Colorado (Boulder) (August 2006), with Dr. Karen Chin as my advisor.  The topic, or, more properly, the conclusions will remain under wraps until publication.       

    I'd like to say a quick thank you to all the people who have helped me in my life, but I don't think the average reader is going to sit through a list the length of War and Peace, so I'll just mention a specific few right now:
    Mom, Dad, my sister, Jessica (and the pets who have come and gone, especially Spackles, the most manipulative iguana I've ever had the pleasure of spending five+ years with), and my numerous relatives;
    Jeanie Davis Pullen and the rest of the Mentor Connection crew;
    Bruce Erickson, Lee Hallgren, and the rest of the Science Museum of Minnesota's Paleontology Lab workers;
    My teachers and friends throughout my elementary and secondary school years, especially all those who remember who "Dr. Shnookums" was; 
    The great faculty, students, and administration of UST, especially the late Professor Jack Brownstein, who was head of the Geology Department before he died of cancer in the fall of 1999, and Lisa Lamb and Tom Hickson;
    My graduate advisor, Dr. Karen Chin, of whom I cannot say enough good things, who is extremely kind, generous of her time and knowledge, and (as an anonymous reviewer noted in so many words) laughs at my jokes; I highly recommend her as an advisor, but undergrad readers may want to wait for the current crop of grad students to graduate (figure a semester or two, okay?  Don't rush us!);
    The other faculty members and paleo students at the University of Colorado at Boulder, each of whom as nutty about his or her specialty as I am, but in general lacking spiffy web pages to announce it to the rest of the world; all of them are fun, engaging people, and very friendly; 
    Finally, I'd also like to say thanks and hello to the people who stop by and look at my site, and drop comments, questions, and criticisms.