ABOUT ME

My Name is Jason Perry. I am 17 years old and I am a junior at Leavenworth High School in Leavenworth, KS. I enjoy keeping snakes, playing soccer, running track, watching TV, and playing games on the computer. During my freshmen and sophmore years, I ran junior varsity Cross country winning one medal. I am not running Cross country this year but I hope to run my senior year. I ran track last year for my H.S.

I own three tarantulas, Hi'iaka, Rosanna, and Maria, as well as an evil little parakeet named Tweety.

My other interests include space, "Survivor," "Whose Line is it anyway?" and the Jacksonville Jaguars.

This summer, I will be working at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. I will be working on image analysis of Galileo and Cassini images of Io. I will looking into what makes volcanoes on Io "tick" or as my Drama II teacher Mr. Elliott would say, "What motivates them? What makes them get out of bed in the morning?" Short answer: corn chips. But seriously, I will looking for physical signs that confirm or disprove some of the formation models that have been presented for the volcanoes on Io and the mountains on Io.

In the picture to the left, I am the skinny runner behind the big guy with the clip board. This was taken at a race at Olathe South. I won a medal at this race. The big guy with the clip board is my coach.

I promised my friends that I would post their names here: Thomas B., Katy K., Stephanie, Larry C., Marc H., Jed S., and finally my girlfriend, Janine Richardson. These are the people hang out with, except for Jed, he's a dork :)

I am currently a member of the American Geophysical Union

Here is a picture of me at my brother's wedding reception which took place on June 2, 2001.

This is my school pic from this school year. Its a bad pic I know since I scanned it from my badge but its the most recent pic I have.

Here is a list of papers I have done for school that I have placed here for no particular reason at all.

My News

October, 2000 - Will probably go to Arizona for the summer next year to help out with the PIRL people at the University of Arizona. There, I will more than likely help out on image analysis of Io images taken by Galileo.

November 2000 - Took the ACT and SAT. I got a 31 on the ACT, which is very good, and a 1250 on the SAT, which is good but not great. Got "The Encyclopedia of the Solar System" for my birthday which was on November 8. Also got a Lenny Kravitz CD from my girlfriend Jenna for my birthday.

December 2000 - Wrote two major papers this month, one 19-page paper on National Missile Defense for Research Paper class and another on dog psychology [which I will post here soon] for Psychology class. Also had some major finals in AP Calculus, Research Paper, and AP Chemistry.

April 2001 - I had to write a paper on Malaria for AP Chemistry.

May 2001 - Junior year finishes up. I gave a presentation in AP Chemistry on the outer solar system. I also had tons of finals, most of which I got A's on. I went on a field trip to IBEX Climbing Gym. That was tons of fun and I made it to the top quite a few times.

June 2001 - My brother got married to his girlfriend of what seems like 100 yrs. He threw up at the reception. No James, I am not going to let you live it down.