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Welcome to the Home Page of Andrew Farnsworth

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A brief history (c.2000-2001) of Andrew begins on 19 March, 1973 in Westchester County, more or less 30 miles northeast of New York City. He began birding at age four and a half, and his first sighting (aside from the Downy Woodpecker from the crib) was a Great Blue Heron at Greenhaven Beach, Rye, NY in December 1978. He attended Rye Country Day School from 1978 to 1991 and made many excellent friends there. From 1991 to 1995 he lived in Ithaca (making many excellent friends there too), completing (miraculously!) a BS in Natural Resources at Cornell University. After a brief stint in Austin TX (1995-1996) playing music, he lived in Ithaca for another few years.  In this fertile period he formed Mectapus, he formulated an ornithological study plan, he contemplated "the real me", and so on and so forth. From Ithaca he moved to the bastion of despair, Youngstown, OH, for a year of wondering why it took a year to wonder.

Some near-term recent history (c.1999-2002) of Andrew found him finishing a MS Zoology at Clemson University while smitten by fabulous Patricia A. Ryan of New York, NY. In between dinner in Manhattan, a dank redneck bar in Clemson, travels with Charlie, and birding adventures supreme, he found some time to complete his thesis under Dr. Sidney A. Gauthreaux.  After completing his thesis, Andrew sat behind a computer monitor in Manhattan analyzing bird populations and making trouble for National Audubon Society.  A sample of that work should have appeared here by now, but likely it never will.

Recent history (c.2002-2006) found our hero madly working on a dissertation back at Cornell University while commuting between Ithaca, New York, and points nowhere in between (recently including Arkansas, Ecuador, and Germany).  1 August 2006 saw the culmination of this work, with Andrew defending his dissertation, and eventually receiving his Ph. D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in January 2007 (not in the period between 2002-2006. . .).  Of course, August 2006 was a month forever immortalized for incredible events in the lives of Farnsworth and Ryan – on 26 August 2006, the two were married in a fabulous affair at Wave Hill in the Bronx. And also in August 2006, the wheels for the more recent historical events of a postdoc at Cornell were put in motion.  Busy month!

 

Very recent history (c. 2007-present): Now living full time in Manhattan (finally!) with the fabulous woman of his dreams, working officially as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Conservation Science Program at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology (www.birds.cornell.edu) on projects 05-245, 06-245, and 07-245 sponsored by the Department of Defense Legacy Resource Management Program (www.dodlegacy.org), no verb in this sentence. . .

Some deep Mectopian history: random notes about the band Mectapus from the great beyond - As a freshman at Cornell University in 1991, Andrew became acquainted with one Mr. Dan "The Man" Janis who lived in the cell across the hall in University Hall #3, Class of 1922 dormitory. It was Janis who introduced Farnsworth, the plastic samurai, to Mr. Peter Dougan, former Mir cosmonaut, during an unsanctioned, impromptu and quickly terminated (very loud) jam session in a lounge space of the dormitory. A quick and lasting bond began there, as well as a pattern of making too much noise in the dorms: thus, the seeds of Mectapus were planted. As a member of Mectapus, Farnsworth, the primary constituent of dark matter, terrorizes other members of the band with his organizational skills and members of the audience with excessive body movement and contorted facial expressions. He chooses his battles wisely and speaks only the when speaking.  Farnsworth, cowboy for the 1990s, also holds fast in the rushing torrent that is reality by reading subversive literature, writing subversive literature, and traveling subversively. Formerly classified as a leafy, green vegetable, he has taken his rightful place in the budding Mectopian democracy as the all powerful ruler of everything that is, was and ever shall be.

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