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Devon’s Grandpa

October 25th, 2006at 10:30pm Posted by ::matthew

Ken died Tuesday night after a sometimes tough battle with Parkinson’s disease.

I’ll remember Ken as an absent-minded professor type who was always happy and jovial and could always be counted on to know the latest sports scores…especially golf! He had a long career as a geologist and professor at FSU in which he devised and improved upon dating of water through the examination of naturally occurring radio isotopes and tortured many students in the finer points of crystallography and mineralogy. The last few years he had been working on a theory which if true would show how the prevailing interpretation of the U-series disequilibria in mid-ocean ridge basalts (MORB) had violated mass balance principles.

Ken (or grandpa doggies, as Devon referred to him as) spent the last several years as assistant dog wrangler for Julie’s Big Dog Rescue operation. He always seemed willing to accept another foster dog into the home to be nurtured and rehabilitated and could be counted on to send the dogs away with a well developed skill set of ball and Frisbee retrieval.

Below are a few pictures of Ken taken over the last few years: