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About

This page is for those of you who cannot accept a person's worth at face value and must see some 'credentials' or 'proof'. Not your fault, it is the way we have all been trained to be. This page is about my life work, not about my artistic side. See the other sites on owamoosa.com.

Chris Patton: BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Professional Preparation

University of California, Santa Cruz, CA BA 1976 Biological Photography [Graduated Highest Honors]
Chapman University, College of Monterey 1995 Education [4.0 GPA on nine courses]
Completed Safety Training in the following areas:
   Animal Care, Radiation, Ergonomics, Back & Lifting, General Safety, Chemicals, Gases, Biohazard Shipping, Biohazards, CPR & AED, Supervisor Training, Laser Safety, Shipping Hazardous Materials

Appointments

2000-2019 Health & Safety Specialist. Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University
1985-2019 Campus Safety Officer. Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University
1978-2019 Technician. Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University

Volunteer Work

2007-present Point Pinos Lighthouse docent, tech support, webmaster, Fresnel lens cleaner(1yr), Museum Board (2yrs)

Publications

Donald M. Bers, Chris W. Patton and Richard Nuccitelli, 2010, A Practical Guide to the Preparation of Ca2+ Buffers, Methods in Cell Biology: In A practical Guide to the Study of Ca2+ in Living Cells

Thaler, CD, Kuo, R, Patton, C, Preston, C, Yagisawa, H, Epel, D. 2004. Phosphoinositide metabolism at fertilization of sea urchin eggs measured with a GFP probe. Dev Growth Differ

Epel, D, Vacquier VD, Peeler, M, Miller, P, and C Patton. 2004. Sea Urchin Gametes in the Teaching Laboratory: Good Experiments and Good Experiences. In: Development of Invertebrate Deuterostomes: Experimental Approaches (Methods in Cell Biology, Volume 74), editors C Ettensohn, G Wessel and G Wray. Academic Press, San Diego.

Patton C, Thompson S, Epel D. 2004. Some precautions in using chelators to buffer metals in biological solutions. Cell Calcium. 35:427-31.

Kuo, R, Baxter, G, Thompson, SH, Stricker, SA, Patton, C, Bonaventura, J, Epel , D. 2000. NO is a necessary and sufficient requirement of egg activation at fertilization. Nature 406:633-636.

Lauzon, R, Rinkevich, B, Patton, CW, Weissman, I. 2000. A morphological study of non-random senescence in a colonial urochordate. Biol Bull 198:367-378

Kaufman, M, Ikeda, Y, Patton, C, Van Dijkhausen, G, Epel, D. 1998. Bacterial symbionts colonize the accessory nidamental gland of Loligo opalescens via horizontal transmission. Biol Bull 194:36-43.

Epel, D, Kaufman, M, Toomey, B, Ikeda, Y, Patton, C. 1997. Saving the children: the cell and molecular biology of embryo defenses. Jap J Reprod Develop 43:45-47.

Rees, BB, Patton, C, Grainger, JL, Epel, D. 1995. Protein synthesis increases after fertilization of sea urchin eggs in the absence of an increase in intracellular pH. Dev Biol 169:683-698.

Bers, DM, Patton, CW, Nuccitelli, R. 1994. A practical guide to the study of calcium in living cells. Methods in Cell Biology, vol. 40

Epel, D, Patton, C. 1985. Cortical granules of sea urchin eggs do not undergo exocytosis at the site of sperm-egg fusion. Dev Growth Diff 27:361-368.

Patton, C. 1979. Copper Prints by Chris William Patton. Popular Photography’s How-To Guide

Synergistic Activities

Development of MAXCHELATOR program. Open access web-site which provides a set of programs to calculate free metal concentrations in solutions in the presence of chelators. Enables researchers to account for effects of pH, temperature, in the presence of most commonly used buffers and chelators. Worldwide distribution. In addition to the web version, users can download Web, DOS, or Windows versions. Thousands of registered users worldwide. Development required programming skills, software manual writing, web page design, and interaction with end users.

Sea Urchin Embryology Website Development and Maintenance. This web site is devoted to bringing university level science to the high school classroom. I am the primary author and developer of the site. Development required web design, course and class design, lesson plans, animations, and illustrations.

Taught Pinhole Photography through UCSC extension to adults for eight years and one year through Center for Photographic Arts in Carmel. As a co-instructor I was involved in course design, material selection and preparation, and adaptation of methods and styles, to consistently improve the course to reach everyone from the beginner to the advanced professional. This demonstrates my proficiency in making technical information accessible to the non-technically inclined. Wrote and maintain the web site devoted to the course.

Worked with George Somero in preparing and obtaining an exception with the California State Water Board for the seawater system and storm water drainage at Hopkins. Involved helping to prepare numerous reports, including extensive graphics, collecting samples and participating in countless meetings.

Worked with others to bring live real time data access to seawater and weather systems at Hopkins via web sites in graphical and data intensive formats.

Worked with the Heritage Society of Pacific Grove to develop the Point Pinos Lighthouse website and restoration archive.

TASKS just before retirement

Safety: 24/7 Emergency Response

• Daily: record trainings and update web databases. Accept and/or retrieve waste and prepare for storage until pick-up.
• Weekly: inspect waste accumulation area, side yard of shop and motor shed.
• Monthly: record generator use, service, and starts to County of Monterey form. Inspect and record condition of all back flow preventers. Inspect pump house and secluded areas for signs of homeless encampments.
• Quarterly: run and record inspections of labs and shops. Help prepare waste for pick-up, including ewaste. Eyewash/showers, -80
• Yearly: do chemical inventory in select areas, retrieve chemical inventory from labs, compile inventory and upload to on line State of California database. Compile waste pickups and categorize to type, shipping weights, frequency and upload to State of California database. Prepare new Life Safety Box sheets/emergency packet sheets and replace old ones. Safety Update for all.
• Update my own trainings in laser, bio-shipping, waste accumulation, haz mat shipping, etc. as needed.
• Do on-line searches of Stanford safety training database to incorporate into our database.
• ALL radioactive isotopes have been removed, as of 2017. I am trained if isotope work were to return. (admin, surveys, etc.)

Water Board:

• Monthly: inspect/photograph all outfalls. Pick up any trash found. Assist National Marine Sanctuary and City of Pacific Grove in their monthly inspections of the TRCC outfall. Inspect car/boat yard for oil/other spills.
• Quarterly: help George Somero prepare report to Regional Water Board.
• Yearly: collect water samples (with Barbara Compton) from ALL outfalls, including seawater. Analyze findings from water collections and help George Somero prepare yearly report to State Water Board. Prepare proposed best management practices for any analytes failure.
• Attend meetings as called by Central Coast ASBS Regional Monitoring Program, sit on tech committee for same.

Tech support:

• Daily: check servers, specific websites (for hacking), trouble shoot computers, printers, web access. Poster printing as needed. Assist individual to prepare their devices for Stanford online security requirements. Build and prepare any new computers that come in (load OS, software, encrypt, etc.). Tear down old computers and destroy hard drives as needed
• Weekly: check servers, NAS, Drupal and WordPress sites for available updates and do them. Backup if necessary.
• Monthly: work w/ network security to plug any security holes found on our network. Update SST, water, weather on web
• Also: build and maintain new servers and websites as needed. (sysadmin for five servers, eleven backup servers and about sixty plus websites). Assist John Lee with network maintenance, trouble shooting, and emergencies. Maintain/service projectors.

Photography and image processing:

• Record images as needed of events, students, life, landscapes, waste, infrastructure equipment failures, etc.
• Maintain archive of twenty years of digital images (~15,000), plus older images currently being scanned into database. Available on web.
• Supply/prepare images as needed for websites, publications, reports, posters, PowerPoint, construction, etc.

Microscopy:

• Occasionally prepare samples for electron microscopy (embedding, sectioning, staining, sputter coating) and light microscopy (including histology).
• Do first training for new confocal users.
• Help people use microscopes and record digital images. Clean/align/repair microscopes as needed.

Station:

• Daily: check status of seawater system/water quality, a HUGE amount of run around for Judy. Cover for Nik/John when gone.
• Weekly: setup and record seminars, save to DVD (2010) and online video (2014) http://athopkins.stanford.edu/dvd
• Weekly: setup and record seminars, save to DVD (2010) and online video (2014) http://athopkins.stanford.edu/dvdKeep track of who is here and current status in web database, directories and mailing lists (37)

Water Analysis:

• Dissolved inorganic carbon, alkalinity, salinity, pH and nitrates as needed. Maintain equipment used.

TASKS - Selected from the Early Days

• SEM and TEM electron microscopy: maintain scopes w/o maintenance contract, prepare specimens, training, prep for others who are unwilling or don't have time to learn.
• Film Photography: 35mm-8x10, 16mm video, Color, B&W, slides: high contrast, blue bgd, etc., ID photos, advertising, publication, plant/animal documentation.
• Illustrations (by hand): line drawings, charts, publication ready images, etc.
• Macro/Micro Photography: live, prepared, animate and inanimate, time lapse
• Experiments in biochem and development: for Daniel Mazia and David Epel.

All images and text (c) Chris Patton, owamoosa@gmail.com