{"id":17,"date":"2017-08-02T21:16:25","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T21:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/koloj\/wordpress\/?page_id=17"},"modified":"2023-02-14T18:38:06","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T18:38:06","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/koloj\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"style5\">Education<\/h2>\n<table style=\"height: 257px;\" width=\"838\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"38\"><strong><span class=\"style2\">YEAR<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"57\"><strong><span class=\"style2\">DEGREE<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"100\"><strong><span class=\"style2\">UNIVERSITY&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"385\">\n<div align=\"center\"><strong><span class=\"style2\">MORE INFO<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"style2\">2004<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span class=\"style2\">Ph.D.<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span class=\"style2\">UC Berkeley<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td><span class=\"style2\">Dissertation Topic: <em>The Occurrence and Environmental Fate of Steroid Hormones with Endocrine and Pheromonal Activity in Fish<\/em>.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"style2\">1999<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span class=\"style2\">M.S.<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span class=\"style2\">UC Berkeley<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td><span class=\"style2\">with honors in Environmental Engineering<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"style2\">1998<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span class=\"style2\">B.S.<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span class=\"style2\">Johns Hopkins University<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td><span class=\"style2\">with general honors in Chemical Engineering<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/koloj\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/CV_Kolodziej_Short_0922.docx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Curriculum Vitae&nbsp;<\/a>if you are interested in&nbsp;any details..<\/h2>\n<h3 class=\"style3 style6\">Why Water Quality and Environmental Engineering?<\/h3>\n<p class=\"style2\">Fundamentally, I am a person who is passionate about the outdoors and the amazing environment we live in. We can&#8217;t live without it, it is worth our care and protection, and I see environmental engineering both as necessary step on an inevitable path to societal and ecological sustainablity and a way to mimimize the ecological footprint that our human activities have on our surrounding environment.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"style2\" align=\"left\"><span class=\"style5\">What I do for fun and because I like the stories&#8230; <\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"style2\" align=\"left\"><span class=\"style7 style6\">Rock Climbing<\/span><span class=\"style8\"> keeps me busy on my (rare) free time.&nbsp; Great days with friends outside playing around on the cliffs problem solving things with your body&#8230; what else is there to say?&nbsp; So fun.&nbsp; &nbsp; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-121 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/koloj\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Red-Rocks-Climbing-2-200x300.png\" alt=\"Climbing Red Rocks\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/koloj\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Red-Rocks-Climbing-2-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/koloj\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Red-Rocks-Climbing-2.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-120 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/koloj\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Cochise-Climbing-2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/koloj\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Cochise-Climbing-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/koloj\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Cochise-Climbing-2.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-119 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/koloj\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Yosemite-Climbing-1-225x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/koloj\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Yosemite-Climbing-1-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/koloj\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Yosemite-Climbing-1.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"style2\"><strong>Some favorite climbs and adventures<\/strong>: The Nose, Yosemite; Serenity Crack\/Sons of Yesterday, Yosemite; American Wet Dream, Tuolumne Meadows; OZ, Tuolumne Meadows; Lucky Streaks, Tuolumne Meadows; Ygdrasil, Incredible Hulk; Grand Wall, Stawamus Chief; Fine Jade, The Rectory; Lightning Bolt Cracks, North Six Shooter; Petit Grepon, RMNP; Pingora, Wind Rivers; Direct Exum, Grand Tetons; Picture Peak, Sierras; What&#8217;s My Line, Cochise Stronghold; Absinthe of Mallet, Cochise Stronghold; Black Elk, Wind Rivers; Clean Break, North Cascades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style2\"><span class=\"style7\">Fly Fishing<\/span> on the Truckee during an evening hatch was hard to beat when I lived there..&nbsp; still probably my favorite river to fish.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-118 size-medium alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/koloj\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Truckee-River-Fishing-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/koloj\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Truckee-River-Fishing-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/koloj\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Truckee-River-Fishing-1.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-117 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/koloj\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Truckee-River-Fishing-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/koloj\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Truckee-River-Fishing-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/koloj\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Truckee-River-Fishing-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/koloj\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Truckee-River-Fishing-2.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"style2\"><strong>Favorite Waters<\/strong>: MA 9-11 beaches around Puget Sound, the West End, Truckee&nbsp; and the overused, but still great, Little Truckee; Yuba; McCloud; Smith; Deschutes; Upper Connecticut; Penobscot; and a variety of other special places that need no mention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style2\" align=\"left\"><span class=\"style7\">Surfing<\/span> when I can get to the coast.&nbsp; Haven&#8217;t been much lately,&nbsp;but the salt lives in my blood and there is nothing quite like a glassy morning with a nice solid swell wrapping in.&nbsp;&nbsp;Life can be perfect out in the water on some days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style2\" align=\"left\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-115 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/koloj\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Surfing-3-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/koloj\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Surfing-3-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/koloj\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Surfing-3-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/koloj\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Surfing-3.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-116 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/koloj\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Mexico-Surfing-1-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/koloj\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Mexico-Surfing-1-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/koloj\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Mexico-Surfing-1-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/koloj\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Mexico-Surfing-1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"style2\"><strong>Favorite Surf<\/strong>: Ocean Beach; SF; Waddell Coast, Santa Cruz; Pleasure Point, Santa Cruz; Nexpa, Mexico; Cathedral Rock, AUS; Saltwater Creek, AUS; and the sand point break at Salina Cruz, Oaxaca.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style2\"><span class=\"style7\">Backcountry Skiing<\/span> during the winter is one way to get to some beautiful places.&nbsp; Spent time out on Tamarack Peak, Maggie&#8217;s Peaks, and a few other Tahoe places.&nbsp;&nbsp;Fewer days out in Washington, but those will come too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style2\">&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-114\" src=\"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/koloj\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Tahoe-Backcountry-3-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/koloj\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Tahoe-Backcountry-3.jpg 768w, https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/koloj\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Tahoe-Backcountry-3-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-113\" src=\"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/koloj\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Tahoe-Backcountry-2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/koloj\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Tahoe-Backcountry-2.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/koloj\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Tahoe-Backcountry-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/koloj\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Tahoe-Backcountry-2-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education YEAR DEGREE UNIVERSITY&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; MORE INFO 2004 Ph.D. UC Berkeley Dissertation Topic: The Occurrence and Environmental Fate of Steroid Hormones with Endocrine and Pheromonal Activity in Fish. 1999 M.S. UC Berkeley with honors in Environmental Engineering 1998 B.S. Johns Hopkins University with general honors in Chemical Engineering Curriculum Vitae&nbsp;if you are interested in&nbsp;any details.. 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