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I went to study business management and psychology at the University of Groningen
Worked in a organic grocery store.
Was lucky enough to end up at Selwerd I
where I was fortunate to have met Cara Crisler.
There is only one Cara Crisler, you know.

Groningen.
BRATS, WINGS,
VIP, CLEOPATRA
Milieudefensie. SMOG
YellowSnowishHeaviestMellow
Eventually got a Masters degree in social and cognitive psychology at the Heijmans Institute
Dwelled in research on social norms and HIV/AIDS prevention
I wrote my thesis on Individual differences in the aesthetic evaluation of landscapes
Seemed to have made some fuzz within the world of Dutch landscape psychology (thanks to Agnes van den Berg)

The K-town experience really made me wonder about culture.
religion. communication.
And difference.
About ethnography, as a way of surviving and aculturalization.
The environmentalist experience kept me interested in diversity, and ecology.
The psyhologists in me kept hammering on perception, social forces.
It was at John & Elizabeth's home that I picked up a copy of Emilio Moran's Ecosystem Approach to Anthropology.

The Department of Anthropology at UNC-Chapel Hill was close enough for us to be able to stay in touch with TN.
Chapel Hill seemed pretty cool. Carole Crumley was willing to be my mentor;
I worked on her project on Historical Climatology of Burgundy, France.
while earning some money at the Carolina Population Center's (CPC) spatial analysis unit.
CPC brought me a lot: a predoctoral trainee in Demography; GIS skills;
herd demography of Ngisonyoka Turkana nomadic pastoralists in Kenya;

Community conservation and forestry in Tabora, Tanzania;
Behavioral Dynamics of HIV/AIDS in Uttar Pradesh, India;
and my first floodplain project looking at the impact of Hurricane Floyd in Eastern North Carolina.

Floodplains have remained central to my work.
I have been working as a research associate with several FEMA funded project
through the Center for Urban and Regional Studies. I have been doing a lot of GIS mapping.

I am also finishing my dissertation on the relationship between vulnerability and public memory.
In this ethnohistoric work I explore linkages between temporality and vulnerability.
Early Warning. Ecological Surprise. Disaster Generations.
My fieldwork brought me to several historically flooded neighborhoods in the United States.
These included Lincoln City in the city of Kinston (NC), the town of Grifton (NC), Felton Grove in Felton (CA),
Maplewood neighborhood in Jefferson Parish (LA), and the City of Savannah (GA).
Funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, PERIship, and CPC.

I work as a Monitoring and Evaluation Officer for IntraHealth International's Capacity Project.
Building and supporting health care capacity in poor country, funded by USAID.
I also help support the building of Human Resource Information Systems using GIS and M&E tools.
Just work the world needs more of...

And I have the most beautiful son and daughter in the world.
Nico Anton de Vries (May 2nd 2004) & Ruby Nadine de Vries (October 10 2006)

Doei!