Ray R. Collins

Biologist, Geologist,

Interplanetary Explorer

&

CELSS* Adventurer

* for those of you who don't know: CELSS means Closed Ecological Life Support System. See ISECCo for more details!

Welcome to my world wide web site. I first wrote this over the summer of 1995, and am still (forever--last major update in 2003) working on it. So please pardon any gaps you may find.

This web site is written primarily for my own entertainment. But if you have comments you think would improve it please let me know!

Emergencies: what to do if I go missing; gear comments, etc	Writing:Poetry,Diaries & auto-biography
Sailing: I'm nuts about sailing	My Library (incomplete)
Traveling: I love to travel	My Schooling: I'm keen on education
Resumes	Growing up in the bush
Hobbies: many, many, too many!	Places
Logbooks: Flying,Acrux sail boat, Scuba diving	Flying: I am crazy about flying. My Super Cub;310. Mom's 140.
Ray's Rentals: my rental business.	ISECCo: The International Space Exploration and Colonization Company--"my" space group.

Links to a Few Friends & Places I like and/or visit often

A good friend, Scott
My twin sisters (they don't really have a page, just a little stuff I wrote for them here.)
My Wife, Frankie
Matt, {his company's web site}
Debi, Co-director of ISECCo and longtime friend has her own company Cygnus

Because I access the web from a large number of different machines (Mom's computer, my laptop, the office computer (TANSTAAFL), UAF library computers, UAA library computers, Geology lab computers, Mike's computer (when in Anchorage), Scott's computer, Valdez library computer,,, is that enough? I can list a few more if you like!) I keep a listing of links I like to visit on here, so I'll always have access to them. You might call this a 'Favorites' page. Because I don't review this very often, you will find obsolete links.

This web page first created in May, 1995. Major upgrade done over the summer, and activated in September 1995. In the fall of 1997 the machine this was on was dismantled, so this web site resided on my home computer with no links to the web. In the summer of 1998 I rebuilt/verified all the files and by early June had it back on the web. A partial review was done in the spring of 1999, with re-writes to this page and the schooling page primarily. A more complete review was done in January-August 2003, where every page was re-read and many updated. Also my web pages has been spread across 3 different web sites, because the size was exceeding that allowed on several machines. In the spring of 2007 it was brought back under a single web page that resides on a friend's computer (thanks, Matt!)