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Nel Ruffin

Instructor

Office: Hilbun Hall Room 101A
Phone: (662) 325-7459
Fax: (662) 325-9423
ruffin@geosci.msstate.edu

 

Most Shameful Secret: A long and arguably checquered career in broadcast radio, beginning with a 1st Class FCC broadcast engineering license in Pensacola, Florida in 1971, running the gamut from sales through writing and commercial production to disk jockeying, and wrapping up with half a dozen years as news director and morning anchor for a couple of Alabama radio stations.

Second Most Shameful Secret: Paying for undergraduate education by working summers and the occasional regular semester as a field archaeologist.

Education

BS in Geography, 1991, Jacksonville State University
MS in Geography, 1996, The University of Alabama

Experience

1999-Present Mississippi State University, Instructor
1997-99 University of Kentucky Water Resources Research Institute, Geographic Information Specialist and Kentucky River Basin Coordinator
1996-97 University of Kentucky Agricultural Communications Department, science writer
1993-94 National Geographic Society, Washington DC - consultant to the Geography Education Program

Professional Affiliations

Association of American Geographers, Southeastern Division; Geology and
Geography Section of the National Speleology Society