Instructor: Allen C. Myers

Mail: P.O. Box 284, Deer Isle, Maine 04627

Telephone: 348-6602

email: amyers@bts.edu  OR  acmyers65@yahoo.com

Short Biography --

Allen Myers has a BA in Geology from Princeton University (1965), a PhD in Oceanography from the University of Rhode Island (1974), and an MDiv from Bangor Theological Seminary (2004). His scientific research interests focused on the interactions between living organisms and the sea floor. He considers himself heir to the tradition of 19th century natural historians, using the more modern tools science has developed since then. Myers has worked for the US-EPA and as an environmental consultant for two Maine cities. His other major life interest has been in education, and he has taught at every level from pre-school through graduate school, including almost eight years at home with his two sons, the Sheepscot Valley Children's House, East Hill Farm and School, The Tatnic Hill School for Environmental Studies, the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, the University of Maine centers at Augusta, Thomaston, and Ellsworth, College of the Atlantic, Bangor Theological Seminary, and elderhostels. In addition, he has worked in the domestic violence movement, and as director of a child care resource and development agency, in which capacity he led the Hancock County delegation to the national Stand For Children in Washington DC in 1996. Myers worked for three years as a mussel aquaculturist on the Damariscotta River, and found time to sail to Ireland on a 43-foot ketch in 1994. He is currently Spiritual Advisor ["chaplain"] to the Hancock County HomeCare Medicare Hospice Program.  As time permits, he revives [=restores to playability] reed organs ("parlor organs", "pump organs").  His academic interests at seminary (and continued) revolve around the transmission of the concept of hesed from the Hebrew Scriptures to early Christianity.

Teaching and Research Work Experience Summary

2004 -current Spiritual Advisor, Hancock County HomeCare Medicare Hospice Program.

2002-2003: Minister (licensed), Sandy Point Congregational Church, Sandy Point Maine

1994-current: Instructor in Physical Geology and Introduction to Marine Science, University of Maine at Augusta -- Thomaston and Ellsworth Centers (part-time faculty). Designed and taught these courses for non-traditional college students, including a lab component emphasizing field observations. Student projects draw on a wide variety of student interests and abilities, including the arts and creative writing as well as the more typical scientific literature search. Spring 1997: Introduction to Physical Geology, College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor: an introductory course built around the geology of Mt. Desert Island. Spring 1998, Fall 1999, 2001, 2003: Instructor in Geology, Bangor Theological Seminary; 2004 Instructor in Philosphy (Science and Religion), BTS.

1992 - June, 1995: Director, Sheepscot Valley Children's House, Wiscasset, Maine -- a private non-profit preschool/day care and K-4 elementary school. Manage finances (bookkeeping, payroll, budget); articulate school mission, philosophy, and policies; interview prospective families and staff; supervise and evaluate staff; coordinate parent volunteers and fund-raising; liaison with Maine Departments of Human Services and Education; counsel parents; consult with staff for placement of children; draft parent handbook, write and edit newsletter.

1992: Director of Special Programs, Sheepscot Valley Children's House. Design and implement initial Early Elementary program in consultation with staff, prospective parents, architect; hire teacher. Write grant proposal for science and math education in preschools for the Beacon Schools Program/Maine Department of Education/National Science Foundation, coordinating efforts of six mid-Maine preschools, Head Start programs, and day-care centers.

1991-1992: Assistant teacher, Sheepscot Valley Children's House -- work with special needs child.

1990-1993: Conduct one-day field trips for University of Maine-Augusta Community Outreach Program: "A Naturalist Looks at the Seashore." -- Spring, Summer, Fall.

1988-1990: President and operator, Abandoned Farm, Inc.: production of and research on cultured mussels and other species; bookkeeping, payroll, financial management; write business expansion plan and shepherd the proposal through Federal and Maine state regulatory agencies (Corps of Engineers, EPA, DEP, etc.); write proposal and obtain grant funding for research on culture of surf clams, conduct research and write final reports.

1980-1988: Primary caregiver for my two children, born 1978 and 1983. Home educator. Coordinate Vassalboro (Maine) Public Library summer reading program for preschool children. Conducted Oceanography/Marine Biology sections of the "Science Sampler" series for elementary-aged children, University of Maine - Augusta, Community Outreach Programs. Various part-time positions as phlebotomist and EKG technician at Alice Peck Day and Mary Hitchcock Hospitals, Lebanon and Hanover, NH; scientific consultant to Earth Surface Research, Inc. (dredging problems in Maine; causes of turbidity in the Eastern River, Dresden), and to the City of Bath, ME (trace metal pollution in the Kennebec River). Instructor in Scientific German Translation, Graduate Department of Chemistry-- Dartmouth College.

1981-1982: Residential counselling staff, Upper Valley Group Home, Hanover, New Hampshire: work with six mentally retarded adults. Teach life skills, coordinate participation in Special Olympics, accompany residents on community outings.

1979-1980: Headmaster, Tatnic Hill School for Environmental Studies, Wells, Maine -- a secondary co-ed private day school. Teach science, math, and German courses; administer all aspects of program: licensing, bookkeeping, public relations, parent volunteers.

1975-1979: Research Scientist, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Narragansett, RI; with project support continuing at University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) Curriculum in Marine Sciences.

1969-1975: Teacher in residence at East Hill Farm and School, Andover, Vermont: teach courses and tutor individuals in math, English language, natural sciences, agriculture, basic carpentry, at preschool, elementary, and secondary levels; teach basic life skills, music, and dancing to secondary students; organize and captain summer research cruises along Maine coast on 42' schooner, Marietta.

Personal Information
Date of Birth: 4 November 1943
Health: reasonable
Married, three mostly grown children

Education and Other Experience
2004 MDiv Bangor Theological Seminary (Prolegomena to a study of the reception of the Hebrew concept of hesed in the New Testament).                                 1974 Ph.D. (Oceanography) University of Rhode Island (Sediment reworking, tube building, and burrowing in a shallow subtidal marine bottom community: rates and effects.)
1965 B.A. (Geology) Princeton University (The Damariscotta [Maine] oyster shell heaps: some further considerations.)

Sailor and rower; repairer/restorer of boats, cottage organs, pipe organs; student of classical organ music.
Certified SCUBA diver (PADI), with over 100 hours of underwater scientific        diving.
Travel: to Germany (formerly East and West); England, Scotland; Canada; southwestern US; crew/cook on 43-foot ketch Tammy Norie from Maine to Ireland, summer 1994.

1986-1995: Member of the Committee on Ministry and Counsel, New England Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quaker); 1986-1992 -- Pastoral Care Working Party, Subcommittee drafting section on "Human Sexuality" for the NEYM publication Living with Oneself and Others.
Former member of Hanover (NH), Vassalboro, Midcoast, Pond Town, and Eggemoggin Reach (ME) Monthly Meetings. Former Clerk of Vassalboro (Maine) Quarterly Meeting and of its Ministry and Counsel Committee, and, former Clerk and Recording Clerk of Eggemoggin Reach Monthly Meeting. Currently member of First Congregational Church of Deer Isle and Sunset Congregational Church (UCC); member of Christian Education Committee, and choir.

Publications

Maren, T.H., J. Rawls, W. Burger, and A.C. Myers, l963, The alkaline (Marshall's) gland of the skate. Comp. Biochem. and Physiol. 10: 1-16.

Myers, A.C., 1970, Some palaeoichnological observations on the tube of Diopatra cupraea (Bosc) Polychaeta: Onuphidae. in Crimes and Harper, eds., Trace Fossils, Geological Journal Spec. Issue No. 3: 331-334.

Myers, A.C., 1972, Tube-worm-sediment relationships of Diopatra cupraea (Bosc) Polychaeta: Onuphidae. Mar. Bio. 17: 350-356. Myers, A.C., 1974, Tillers of the shallow sea bottom. Maritimes (University of Rhode Island) 18(3): 14-16.

Myers, A.C., 1977, Measurement of the effects of burrowing organisms on the mechanical properties of sediments using a rotational viscometer. Abstract: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 9(2): 171-172.

Myers, A.C., 1977, Sediment processing in a marine subtidal sandy bottom community: I. Physical aspects. J. Mar. Res.35: 609-632.

Myers, A. C., 1977, Sediment processing in a marine subtidal sandy bottom community: II. Biological consequences. J. Mar. Res. 35: 633-647.

Myers, A.C., l979, Summer and winter burrows of a mantis shrimp, Squilla empusa, in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island. Est. and Coastal Mar. Sci. 8: 87-98.

McCaffrey, R.J., A.C. Myers, E. Davey, G. Morrison, M. Bender, N. Luedtke, D. Cullen, P. Froehlich, and G. Klinkhammer, 1980, The relation between pore water chemistry and benthic fluxes of nutrients and manganese in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island. Limnol. Oceanog. 25(1): 31-44.

Myers, A.C., 1981, Shell hash in the gravel beaches of the central Maine coast. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 13(3): 167.

Myers, A.C., 1982, Shell hash in the gravel beaches on islands of the central Maine coast. Maine Geology, Bull. No. 2: 45-57.

Reports

Myers, A.C., 1978, Effects of burrowing animals on the compaction of sediments. Paper presented at the East Coast Benthic Assemblage, College Park, Maryland.

Myers, A.C., and D.K. Phelps, 1978, A transect study of subtidal benthic environments in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, from stressed to unstressed areas: a proposal of criteria for describing the health of benthic systems. US Environmental Protection Agency Research Report.

Myers, A.C., and R.J. McCaffrey, 1978, The effects of animal processing of sediments on the release (or uptake) of trace metals and nutrients from polluted and unpolluted sediments of Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island. US Environmental Protection Agency Research Report.

Myers, A.C., 1979, Distribution of trace metals (Cu,Ni, Pb) in sediments of the Long Reach (Kennebec River), Bath, Maine: a preliminary survey and interpretations. Report to the City Planning Department, Bath, Maine.

Myers, A.C., 1982, Biological causes of turbidity in the Eastern River, Lincoln County, Maine. Pp 24-46 in "The turbidity problem in the Eastern River, Dresden, Maine," prepared for the Dresden Planning Board by Earth Surface Research, Inc.

Myers, A.C., 1982, Ecological evaluation of dredging and spoiling management in the State of Maine: part of a report on dredging activity and management for the Maine Department of Environmental Protection, prepared by the Mahoosuc Corp.

Myers, A.C., and S. Chapman, 1990, A preliminary investigation of the aquaculture of surf clams (Spisula solidissima ) in the Damariscotta River. Final Report on Grant UM-S128 from the Maine Aquaculture Innovation Center/ University of Maine. 23 pp.