David McFarlane
David McFarlane
NSS: 31696
Phone: (517) 339-9421 (Home) (517) 353-0799 (Campus)
I'm a native Michigander, born in Detroit, so it wasn't easy to start
caving. I got my first wild cave experience while living in Urbana,
Illinois, with trips to the caves of southern Indiana. I took the
speleology course at Mammoth Cave before I left Illinois, and linked up
with DUG when I returned to Michigan. Now a trip to the FRCS area has
become an annual fall pilgrimage for me, about all I can spare from my
other life.
I have a B.S. in Biophsyical Sciences from the University of
Michigan-Dearborn, and a M.S. in Biophysics and Theoretical Biology from
the University of Chicago. I work half time as Systems Designer for the
Dept. of Psychology at Michigan State University, writing software,
building circuits, and generally making sure research gets done. The
second half of my time I do consulting, building custom data acquistion and
control applications for scientific research. The third half of my time I
volunteer with the Alliance for the Mentally Ill of Greater Lansing (my
sister has schizophrenia). And the fourth half I spend dancing and
remodeling with my wife, Charlene Vanacker. Not necessarily in that order.