Richard Blaney:  

Check out more photos on MySpace GalicenosOfSuwannee My Life so far I attended Florida State University right after High School and graduated with a B.S. in Biological Science in 1965. I then attended Graduate School at Louisiana State University and received a Doctorate (Ph. D.) in 1971. I am an educator and consider myself to have been in the "helping business," helping people to learn. I have been teaching since January 1966 at LSU, Mississippi, West Virginia and have been at Brevard Community College (Cocoa, FL) since 1980 where I was Chairman of the Science Department until I retired in June 2006. My research has been primarily dealing with vertebrate adaptations and comparative vertebrate anatomy and physiology. I have published more than 40 scientific research papers, two laboratory manuals and three review guides. I have taught graduate and undergraduate courses in General Biology, General Zoology, Marine Biology, Environmental Sciences, Vertebrate Zoology, Herpetology, Parasitology, Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy, and Human Anatomy and Physiology. I was responsible for creating distance learning science courses through television and online delivery in the very beginning of the development of online college courses. I met my wife, Pat, while we were in Graduate School at LSU. She is also a biologist so our common interests made for a natural match. She also has spent her life as an educator both in Museum work and in the classroom. She h...Expand for more