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The Beginning of Science. The Science of Beginning.
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The Beginning of Science. The Science of Beginning.
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Presenter: Mark H. Armitage, B.S., M.S., Ed.S. (B.S. Education, Liberty University, M.S. Biology/parasitology, ICR Graduate School – Ed.S. Science Education, Liberty University).
Mark Armitage BIO
Lifetime member and former Financial Secretary, Creation Research Society, Former Electron Microscopy lab manager, California State University Northridge (CSUN) and member, Board of Directors of the Southern California Society for Microscopy and Microanalysis since 2000. Mark was the President of the Society for 4 years.
Mark grew up and lived in Venezuela and Puerto Rico for 15 years. He became a Christian when he was a college senior at the University of Florida.
He has had a lengthy career in microscopy with firms such as Olympus Corporation of America, Carl Zeiss and Reichert, Austria across the United States and the Carribbean. In 1984 he founded a microscope company and has been in business for 32 years.
Mark studied parasitology and electron microscopy under Richard Lumsden (Ph.D. Rice and Dean of Tulane University’s graduate program) at the Institute for Creation Research. He was awarded a US patent for an optical inspection device in 1993.
Mark’s teaching career includes positions at The Master’s College, Azusa Pacific University and California State University.
For five years, Mark maintained a working electron microscopy laboratory (SEM and TEM) at the Institute for Creation Research in San Diego. In 2003 he moved his laboratory to the Creation Research Society Van Andel Creation Research Center in AZ. Ten years later, in 2013 Mark moved his lab to a new, undisclosed location to continue his research on dinosaur soft cells.
Mark’s micrographs have appeared on the covers of eleven scientific journals, and he has many technical publications on microscopic phenomena in such journals as American Laboratory, Southern California Academy of Sciences Bulletin, Parasitology Research, Microscopy and Microanalysis, and Microscopy Today among others. He has received national recognition for his micrographs in the Nikon Small World annual competition.
Mark is a member of the Microscopy Society of America, the Southern California Academy of Sciences and the American Society of Parasitologists.
Location: Arizona Christian University 2625 E Cactus Road, Phoenix, 85032
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