User:Phillippeterson

Phillip Peterson was born in 1957 in Texas. He is a graduate of the University of Houston with a B.S. in Computer Systems Design. Having travelled as a young person with his parents he continued travelling as an adult both for business and personally. His business travels were with a geophysical company that specialized in measuring gravity. This occupation took him to many U.S. states including Alaska where he twice lived alone in the remote wilderness for periods of about five months each time. One such assignment was on St. Matthews Island in the Bering Sea and the other was east of Cordova on the Bering Glacier. He also worked for the U.S. Department of Commerce and the National Center for Atmospheric Research as a contractor as the site manager for a remote weather and atmospheric research facility in Kapingamarangi. He also worked in the Grand Erg Oriental of the Sahara in Algeria. He is currently a commercial pilot and flight instructor for both airplane and helicopter and is living once again in Texas after living in twelve U.S. states and on four continents. His only son, Nicholas, is a college graduate of Wayland Baptist University in Plainview, Texas.