Kyle Arvin:  

School/work-wise, I graduated Harrison High School and attended Indiana University with dismal results and transferred to Purdue University where I finished my BS in wildlife science in 1992. While at Purdue, I got a job working for the university in the State Seed Lab which eventually turned into full-time employment. I accepted a field assistant position in Venezuela studying birds and lived and worked there for 6 months in 1991, afterwards returning to my job at Purdue. While working for Purdue I opted to start taking coursework on a BA in spanish which I completed in 2000. I left employment at Purdue in 1999 and began trying to obtain work more in line with my wildlife degree. First working for Indiana DNR, then the Purdue entomology department and then again for IDNR and then the Indianapolis Zoo. I was then offered a directorship for the New York State Seed Testing Laboratory at Cornell University and I couldn't say no, so here I am. After a year up here, I began working on an MS in crop science at Cornell. I should have that completed by 2011. Life-wise, I met my spouse, Susanna, in 1978 (8th grade) but we didn't start dating until 1984 and were married in 1986. She grew up in Connersville, IN. We are fond of travel and began our international forays in 1989 to Mexico. Our subsequent big trips included Venezuela (May-Oct 1991), Costa Rica (me only, Mar 1993), Alaska (June 1995), Argentina-Falkland Islands-Antarctic Peninsula (Jan, 1999), Brazil (me only, Sep 1999), Ta...Expand for more