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Jim Colbert
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For Jim Colbert, it was streams. In different times, doing what his children would not be allowed to do, Colbert and an elementary-school friend wandered along the Prairie Creek, a mile or two from his Cedar Rapids home.
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The first day, Senior PGA pro Jim Colbert tooled around the course handing out free shots (the type with the golf club, not a shot glass) to improve everyone’s final score. On several different holes, a selection of breakfast items were served, from custom-made omelets to Belgian waffles and Bloody Marys. The emphasis wasn’t on the quality of golf, but the fun.
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Each fall, Jim Colbert leads students, faculty, staff, alumni and other volunteers on a tour of the Skunk River. This is no leisurely excursion. Last year alone, the Skunk River Navy removed nearly 10,000 pounds of garbage from the Ames waterway. For their efforts, the Navy and Professor Colbert received the 2005 Governor’s Iowa Environmental Excellence Award.
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Surely, somewhere, Jim Colbert has been featured in the classic headline, "Kansas Boy Makes Good" - even though he was born in New Jersey. Transported to Kansas on a football scholarship, Colbert graduated from K-State with one of those degrees (political science) about which his parents probably anxiously asked, "So what are you going to do with that anyway?" He never had to answer that burning question after he earned his PGA playing card in 1965: he's played golf.
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In 1973, Jim Colbert boarded a cross-country Greyhound bus to Denver, embarking upon his idea of a fun and interesting summer spent camping in the wilderness. Little did he realize that it would ultimately lead him to where he is today – an Associate Professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology at Iowa State University and Admiral of the “Skunk River Navy.”
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The Navy was formed in 1998 as a community service activity for the Freshmen Biology Learning Community - BEST, by Jim Colbert, associate professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology. As a regular user of the rivers and streams of central Iowa, he became concerned by the increasing problems facing those waters. BEST students, needing a community service project were the perfect group to tackle some of the issues. Not only was it a community service opportunity but ... an educational activity, as the students and volunteers learned about and experienced the issues like water quality, organismal diversity and land stewardship.
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