The Ruaux.net site has been basically rebuilt from the ground up, with a new CMS backend .
The CMS I am using is an open source product called Joomla, and I have integrated Menalto Gallery2 for image display.

Clicking on the links in the menu to the left, or up at the top of the page, will take you to the content on the site.

I have copied over some of my older trip-report material to this version of the site, this may be found by clicking on the link in the bottom left menu titled "Archival Material".

Somewhat of a stranger in a strange land, I was born in New Zealand, grew up in Australia, and lived in the USA since late 1999, first in College Station, TX and then in Corvallis, OR. At the end of 2016 I returned to New Zealand, after only 47 years away...

I am a veterinarian, professionally I am board certified in Small Animal Internal Medicine by the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine. I work at the Massey University Veterinary School, where I am an Associate Professor in Small Animal Medicine.

I have research interests in gastrointestinal and pancreatic disease, biological variation in clinical testing, transfusion medicine and methods for assessment of teaching and communication competence in preclinical veterinary students. You can PubMed me HERE if you like.

In my "spare" time I enjoy landscape and nature photography (particularly underwater, whenever possible), growing exotic plants, and futzing around with open source hardware/software.