Below you will find a list with activities which also more or less serves as a CV.
More importantly, I've found that that list enables
some people to reconnect with me if they've met me at a workshop or symposium and remember me but don't recall my name.
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Occasionally
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Business-oriented teleclasses in the U.S. and webinars on various topics (the latter usually science-related)
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As of summer 2010
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Devising a large local international event which will require major sponsoring and has nothing to do with science.
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July, 2010
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Volunteer at Pcan's Green Fair, Portsmouth
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April, 2010
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Attended webinar (sponsored by Perkin Elmer) by Hakan Gürleyük of
Applied Speciation and Consulting, LLC
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February, 2010
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Started preparations for the organization and moderation of a series of science meetings
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Winter and Spring, 2010
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Attended Portsmouth Café Scientifique several times and looked into setting up a series of my own
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October - December, 2009
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Member of Sambatida Southsea
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August - September 2009
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Signed up for and participated in Andy Sheppard's Saxophone Massive in Bristol
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March, 2009
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Became member of
Portsmouth Environmental Forum
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October, 2008
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AABC reception at American consulate in Amsterdam.
Registered and booked flights but was unable to attend as a result of illness
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July, 2008
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Dezineforce Seminar: The Future of Design
(i.e., engineering design, computing, optimization)
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April, 2008
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Oxford Trust event (doors to the building were locked and there were no doorbells or phone number)
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March, 2008
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Workshop Successful Selling, eHampshire (I used it to brainstorm with myself)
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January, 2008
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Workshop eCommerce, eHampshire
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October-November, 2007
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Registered and unregistered for "Building a Business", Said Business School, Oxford University
(registration still turned out to mean: first come first served; traveling to Oxford and back takes
up too much time for that)
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October, 2007
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Attended Distinguished Public Lecture Michaelmas Term 2007 James Martin 21st Century School
"Genomics – From humans to the environment" by J. Craig Venter in Oxford
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Contacted three local organizations for events or information
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Two did not respond (dismantled?) and the third one had not gotten off the ground
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August, 2006
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Attended LTL Special Summer Networking Event in Oxford
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May, 2006
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Participated in tax workshop on limited companies, organized by Inland Revenue Business Support Team
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May-June, 2006
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G8 Online 2002 course, University of Toronto
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January, 2006
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Participated in exhibitor training workshop, Business 2 Business Shows
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December, 2005
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Participated in seminar on e-marketing organized by Business Link Wessex
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Fall, 2005
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Certificate
Radiation Protection Course for working with isotopes, Southampton
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October, 2005
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Participated in another tax workshop organized by Inland Revenue Business Support Team
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September, 2005
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Participated in two workshops (Training women to win) organized by
University of Surrey
and one
tax workshop organized by Inland Revenue Business Support Team
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Aug-Dec 2005
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Member of Anglo-Netherlands Society
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May, 2005
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Became member of SHEA Business Club in Southampton (dissolved shortly thereafter)
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After that:
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(more... (UK))
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June, 2004
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Participant information session
Priority 6.3 ("global change and ecosystems") FP6 (SenterNovem)
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May, 2004
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Participant workshop "Zapping through cultures" (Berenschot)
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May, 2004
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Participant "Basistraining KP6" (FP6) (SenterNovem/EG-Liaison)
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March, 2004
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Participant "Samen bouwen aan innovatie" (Innovatiesubsidie Samenwerkingsprojecten) (Senter)
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July 03-Fall 05
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Ph.D. researcher marine (biogeo)chemistry, U.K.
Initial research area: bioavailability of atmospheric iron (dissolution of particles etc.)
Later changed to: iron and other metal uptake mechanisms of marine cyanobacteria
(including use of genetic information).
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May, 2003
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Attended Millipore seminar
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April, 2003 - July, 2004
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Member of Toastmasters of The Hague
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Spring, 2003
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Became member of Amsterdam American Business Club
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April, 2003
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Attended symposium
"Bèta Boeiend in Beeld", held at the
University of Groningen
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March, 2003
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Attended SOLAS workshop, held at KNAW in Amsterdam
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November, 2002
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Panel member at symposium for women scientists in The Netherlands
(Netwerk van Informaticae, Mathematicae en Fysicae)
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September, 2002
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Participant postdoc course "Speciation and Bioavailability", SENSE research school,
Wageningen University and Research Centre, The Netherlands
"The course concerns the analytical and physical chemistry of metal ions in complexing environments
and the ensuing bioavailabilities of the various species. Some attention is also paid to speciation of organics.
Modern analytical speciation techniques such as DGT/DET, PLM, Donnan techniques, voltammetries, ligand
exchange methods, etc., are discussed in methodological detail. The theoretical background of metal ion
binding by simple ligands, macromolecular complexing agents and particles is given ample attention.
Known equilibrium speciation codes are tested in interactive exercises. Dynamic features of complex systems
and ensuing lability characteristics are discussed on the basis of the underlying reaction kinetics and
transport conditions. Molecular mechanisms for biouptake processes, as well as resulting uptake rate
equations, are evaluated with emphasis on the physicochemical principles. Some illustrative case studies
of metal uptake by animals and plants are included."
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June, 2002
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Attended
Ironages Meeting at KNAW in Amsterdam
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January, 2002
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Participated in workshop "Belastingen en Administratie", featuring Brenda Pals and
organized by successful Dutch entrepreneur Teatske de Jong for female
entrepreneurs within Women on the Web (formerly Webgrrls Nederland) of which I became a member
in 1998 or thereabouts.
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January, 2002 - Fall, 2004
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Editor of newsletter and yearbook
of the Environmental Chemistry Section of the Royal
Netherlands Chemical Society. The
Environmental Chemistry Section later joined
forces with the Environmental Toxicology Section of the
Netherlands Society for Toxicology.
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December, 2001
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Installed as board member of
Environmental Chemistry Section
of Royal Netherlands Chemical Society
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Fall, 2001
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Contributed to Ben Vroom's "Checklist voor goede websites"
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Summer, 2001
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Participant short course
"The Mineral-Water Interface - Macroscopic and Spectroscopic Approaches" -
taught by Dr. Laurent Charlet of Grenoble University at
Utrecht University
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Volunteer at Artis Zoo in Amsterdam. Spring and summer
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2000
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Attended Goldschmidt 2000 in Oxford
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Spring, 2001
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Nominated board member Environmental Chemistry Section of the Royal Netherlands Chemical Society - formally
installed in December 2001.
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Fall, 1999
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Participant meeting
"Progress in Chemical Oceanography-III" (PICO-III), U.K. (presentation)
(link refers to meeting report on page 17)
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Summer, 1999
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Participant course "Hoorcollege geven"
(Teaching large groups of graduate students), Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
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Summer, 1999
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Invited speaker "7th International Marine and Freshwater Mycology Symposium",
Hong Kong (sent abstract but was unable to attend).
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Dec., 1998 - present
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Associate Editor for The Geochemical News, newsletter of The
Geochemical Society in the U.S. (and later EAG in Europe as well).
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Fall, 1998
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Attended
SCOR iron meeting in Amsterdam
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Fall, 1998
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Part-time information specialist and project manager, Vrije Universiteit,
Amsterdam. Mathematics, Earth Science, and Computer Science - some teaching included
(substitute for geologist on one-year sabbatical - followed by four-month project)
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May, 1998
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Convenor of Session on yeasts and fungi in the marine environment,
AGU Spring Meeting, Boston, United States - in association with Geobiochemistry
Group of Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands (while temping more than fulltime elsewhere to support myself). I also
visited WHOI and met with Drs Moffett,
Sholkovitz, Hannigan and others.
(Funding from Stichting Fonds Doctor Catharine van Tussenbroek)
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October, 1997
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Established my business, part-time
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1996
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Started working as an independent scientist and managed to get a little article in review at Science.
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Summer, 1995
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VG Plasmaquad Basic Training Course - Theory and Operation. Taught by Dr. Glen Gilchrist of Fisons, United States.
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Spring, 1995
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Scanning Electron Microscopy course, United States.
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Fall, 1994 and Winter, 1995
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ICP-MS purchase, site prep specs, and other matters related to setting up new marine-chemistry lab, design experiments and so on, United States.
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Spring, 1994
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Radiation Protection Course for Working with Isotopes, Bayfront Center Hospital, U.S.
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Spring, 1994
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Became volunteer at bird hospital (now called Save Our Seabirds, Inc.), United States.
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Jan 94-Dec 96
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Ph.D. researcher marine chemistry (graduate assistant), U.S.
Topic: oxidation of cerium in seawater. Scientifically speaking and otherwise, I learned a great deal
here.
The plan had been to do one or two postdocs elsewhere and then establish my own research group. I could see myself doing
that at this university. I already knew I liked the science and I discovered that I enjoyed coaching graduate students and
felt very much at home with the American work ethos. Circumstances led to a drastic change in course with very
profound effects on the remainder of my life.
(My GRE scores - obtained with hardly any prep and after a night in a noisy hotel,
which didn't bother me - were V 610 - Q 690 - A 640.)
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May, 1993
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Extra graduate diploma in Chemical Oceanography, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.
- "Rare Earth Element Distributions in the Southern Ocean: Weddell and Scotia Seas"
This involved ID-TIMS, ion chromatography, class-100 clean-lab work
 
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May, 1993
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Master's in Earth Science (geology), Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, with distinction.
- "The Loftahammar-Västervik area in SE Sweden: Proterozoic deformation and the Filipstad-Västervik shear zone"
- "The Loftahammar-Västervik area in SE Sweden: geochemistry"
- "Scanning tunneling microscopy and its descendants"
- "A statistical comparison of several geothermobarometers"
- various reports for smaller fieldworks and a study of a topic in sociobiology
Geological sample preparation for XRF and INAA, mineral separation, sampling and
fieldwork techniques, several types of microscopy. Familiar with EPMA. Department: Ore Geology,
Petrology and Mineralogy (later called Petrology and Isotope Geology).
Served on Studium Generale Committee of science departments.
IT skills (such as UNIX and TurboPascal) were also part of the program.
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Spring, 1993
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Short course "Freelance journalistiek" (journalism), The Netherlands.
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Spring, 1993
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Short course "Omgaan met de media" (Public Relations),
The Netherlands.
Also started on NGPR-A course (PR), but then emigrated.
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May, 1991
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Participated in EPOS Symposium at AWI, Germany (poster).
Funding: full conference grant from European Science Foundation.
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1991-1993
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Fall, 1988
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Became active in the then largest organization of women scientists in The Netherlands
(Netwerk van Informaticae,
Mathematicae en Fysicae). Served on the board, two symposium committees
(organization and contacts with media),
and several other committees.
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General
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Letters, small articles etc. published in De Volkskrant and other publications.
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Winter, 1981
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Start of employment Crest Hotel Amsterdam: front office supervision etc.
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1980
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Employed at Tourist Office Amsterdam. Taught myself some Spanish.
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1978
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One semester of German language and literature, University of Leiden.
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1979
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Diploma "Machineschrijven" (typing).
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1978
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Diploma atheneum-B (high school, with emphasis on the sciences).
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1970
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Courses French language, with certificate.
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General
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Developed a wide range of skills in a variety of organizations during my studies (mostly
part-time employment, mainly in The Netherlands) at all sorts of companies (such as KBB, Crest Hotel,
Clifford Chance, Ideta, Unisys, Verity, Moret Ernst & Young, Vrije Universiteit).
Often been involved in organizing all sorts of events and public actions.
Started translating for others in 1992 (partly as Top-Notch Text Productions).
Started publishing in the early 1970s. Advanced family responsibilities throughout the 1970s.
Already developed an active interest in the
earth and marine sciences in the 1960s.
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