BOARD02386 - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

I I Now, the last thing that I wanted to mention would be in a little bit greater depth and that is the extent of our program in lakes and reservoirs. A thing we have been trying to start since 1968. To present tbat, I would like to introduce a new member of our organiza- tion who has been with us only the last six months, something like that, John Ficke. John." MR. FICKE: "As Ted said, I have only been here about six months. I moved from Washington, and when I came, we tried to describe a job for me as the federal government always requires. We have to describe a job for civil Service regulations, establish a job description, in order to tell what a man is to do and hopefully to be paid, since he is not a high-powered economist who can make money other ways. When I came out, we had a new computer management problem which had a check form, and Ted and I sat down and we filled this out and we decided that I was certainly an earth scientist, that I was inter- ested in water, that I was going to be looking at lakes and particularly biological factors in lakes, and more particularly small biologic- al factors in lakes, and that I also had an interest in the chemistry of the water. We punched this out and we put it into the computer terminal out at the Federal Center, and the computer matched up these five syl~ lables, geo, for earth scientist, hydro, for the water based scientist, bio, for biological scientist, and micro, for small biological scientist, and chern, for chemistry. We pushed the button 'Go' on the computed and it came out with a job title. This is my job title, 'a hydromicrobiogeochemist.' It came out with a job description for a hydromicrobiogeochemist. It said he studies small underwater flora and their relationships to underlying rock strata by chemical methods. I didn't like that too well, and I alsO wanted to test the computer program so we varied it just very slightly and -37-