About the Author

Mr. Hunt is a naturalist and scientist who has earned four degrees in the biological, geological and engineering sciences and has worked in such divers fields as materials engineering and endangered species work.* He has lived and worked in Oregon and northern California and is a native of Oregon.

Mr. Hunt’s interested in everything with an extraordinary memory for details. He reads everything from archaeology to history to zoology and has studied four languages. He writes non-fiction and fiction. He mastered basic relativity as a preteen, calculated and drew up star maps in high school, went into engineering and eventually natural resources when the economy contracted in the mid 1990s.

Mr. Hunt has had an overwhelming passion for fact, something more and more frequently ignored in the media and popular culture as the years have progressed.

He was born again at 11, is a practicing Christian, and writes Christian fiction as well as science fiction and non-fiction.

He has for the most part conquered problems that plagued him during his earlier life that stem from congenital Primary Immunodeficiency, severe asthma, severe allergies, a dead thyroid, and other autoimmune problems. For example, Mr. Hunt runs six times per week, weightlifts and has done so for years. Discipline over the body plus the miracles of modern medicine has resulted in Mr. Hunt remaining an avid outdoorsman.

He's one of the few left that could actually live off the land in this modern era, knowing which plants, animals and minerals are useful and how much of nature works in the western United States.

When he’s had time, he has painted, drawn and illustrated. His hobbies are day trips, hiking, photography, and writing. He does a lot of volunteer work. Prior to the mid 1990s, he read science fiction before the genre became formula books with interchangeable characters and plots. He listens to many types of music but his favorite groups over ther years are ELO and APP. His favorite actress is Jewell Staite and his favorite model is Monika Duricova.

To give a better idea of his qualifications to write a book such as Global Warming, Challenged, using U.S. Office of Personnel guidelines, he is rated as qualified to professional in 20 science and engineering specialties. 

*M.S. Environmental Education (Conservation Biology), Southern Oregon U, 1999

  B.S. Geology, Southern Oregon University, 1998

  B.S. Civil Engineering Technology, Oregon Institute of Technology, 1992

  A.S. General Engineering Technology, COCC, 1990

  National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration- National Marine Fisheries Service

  U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

  U.S. Forest Service

  etc.

Hunt at right with parents, brotherand brother's family (and cold niece who didn't

wear a jacket) at Rainier National Park.

When life gives you lemons, pull the seeds out of 'em and grow an orchard.