Keith Eric Grant

Current

Founder / Senior Research Scientist at Ramblemuse Associates
Columnist at Massage Today
Massage Instructor/Author at McKinnon Institute LLC

see less...

Past

Physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Education

2007 Santa Fe Science Writing Workshop
University of California, Davis
University of California, Davis

San Jose State University

see less...

1 more...

Recommended

2 people have recommended Keith Eric

Connections

117 connections

Industry

Research

Websites

Keith Eric Grant’s Summary

Keith Eric Grant's technical experience includes: atmospheric chemistry and climate modeling, inverse problems, radiation transport modeling, implementation and use of nonlinear solvers on massively parallel computers, data extraction and analysis, information management with XML and netCDF files, programming in C, FORTRAN90/95, MPI, Python, Perl, Javascript, PHP, and web site development.. Keith has done data analysis and presentation, using tools such as IDL, MatLab, Visit, MatPlotLib, and IGOR Pro.

Keith's recent work at LLNL was on inversion methodology to verify fossil fuel emissions from carbon dioxide concentration measurements and on condensation micro-physics and chemical reactions of sulfur trioxide (oleum) following potential hazardous material spills.

Keith writes a column for for the trade newspaper "Massage Today" (http://www.massagetoday.com/mpacms/mt/column.php?c_id=613)

Keith co-chairs the Massage Therapy Foundation's Best Practices Committee, developing methodology for evidence-based guidelines for massage therapy. (www.massagetherapyfoundation.org)

Keith was an invited educational consultant for the 2005 formation of the Federation of State Massage Therapy Boards (www.fsmtb.org).

Keith writes two blogs: The Massage Politics Sheet and Ramblemuse Touch Points (see under websites).

Keith created the Massage Medical Applications Project (MMAP) (www.ramblemuse.com/mmap/)

Keith was lead author on "Status and Trends of Massage Education in California", (www.ramblemuse.com/articles/massage_training_trends.pdf).

Twittering at http://twitter.com/ramblemuse

Keith Eric Grant’s Specialties:

Inverse problem methods
Radiation transport
Aerosol property modeling
Nonlinear Solvers
Science Writing
Massage therapy training and regulation

Keith Eric Grant’s Experience

Founder / Senior Research Scientist

Ramblemuse Associates

(Research industry)

January 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)

Technical consulting on algorithm and model development. Science writing. Consulting on massage therapy training and regulation. Web design.

Implemented XML/PHP/Javascript-based bibliography of personal library and emerging interests. (http://www.ramblemuse.com/generalbib/)

Paper in first issue of International Journal of Massage Therapy & Bodywork ITJMB). http://is.gd/hBpz

Co-authoreded chapter on Myofascial Release in "Modalities" under Elsevier imprint. http://is.gd/hBsz
Columnist

Massage Today

(Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)

January 2001 — Present (8 years 11 months)

Author of a regular trade-publication column on issues of benefits of touch, interfacing massage with other health care professions and facilities, medical applications of massage, and massage regulation. Making results from a wide variety of research more available and accessible, including interrelations between policy and system dynamics (e.g. http://www.massagetoday.com/mpacms/mt/article.php?id=13720).
Massage Instructor/Author

McKinnon Institute LLC

(Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)

June 1992 — Present (17 years 6 months)

Hands-on teaching of sports massage, deep tissue, and structural kinesiology classes. Development of training material and curricula. Keith's training includes numerous classes at Esalen Institute, deep tissue classes from Art Riggs, Tom Hendrickson's methods for orthopedic massage, clinical sports massage with Benny Vaughn, Onsen Method from Rich Phaigh, Thai Massage from Rick Gold, and lymphatic drainage (LDT I & II) from Upledger Institute.
Physicist

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

(Research industry)

June 1972 — May 2008 (36 years )

Keith's scientific experience include Inversion of trace gas emissions for sources, aerosol micro-physics and radiative properties, nonlinear solver methods, atmospheric radiation transport, dispersion modeling, chemical-radiation-transport model development, climate modeling. Keith also had several years of experience as a user consultant for a main LLNL computer system. Keith also contributed as part of LLNL's participation in the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) theory team, including analysis of the effects of the Mt. Pinatubo eruption on stratospheric ozone.

Keith Eric Grant’s Education

2007 Santa Fe Science Writing Workshop

2007 — 2007

Highly regarded Science Writing Workshop organized by Sandra Blakeslee and George Johnson. (http://sciwrite.org/)
University of California, Davis

PhD , Applied Science , 1974 — 1981

Fred Luther at LLNL had interested me in atmospheric radiation transport. After some "wandering around", Joe Knox, then atmospheric division leader, connected me with Kinsell Coulson at UCD. Coulson, in turn, was aware of the near-solar-limb radiance measurements being taken by the high altitude observatory on Mauna Loa using the K-Coronameter. Coulson wondered if any information on atmospheric aerosols could be obtained from inversion of the forward scattered intensity. This lead to my working with Dick Hansen taking measurements on Mauna Loa for a month and returning to LLNL with a foot-locker full of strip charts. Analysis and development of inversion methods for that data became my PhD thesis.
University of California, Davis

M.S. , Applied Science , 1972 — 1974

"Edward Teller’s desire to see practical results from basic science research influenced his leadership of 'Teller Tech,' the Department of Applied Science at Livermore, which was established as part of the College of Engineering at UC Davis in the early 1960s. His founding of Teller Tech was based on the idea of encouraging young applied scientists to take advantage of the latest developments in basic science." <https://www.llnl.gov/str/JanFeb08/libby.html>

The department combined a graduate physics curriculum with a job program embedding students half-time into current research. Teller remained involved, coming to seminars and, during my classes there, stepping in to teach a section on atomic orbitals. John Killeen, founding director of NERSC, taught mathematical and computational methods classes. Chuck Leith, an Applied Science instructor, had started a line of atmospheric simulation at LLNL. His student, Michael MacCracken, in turn motivated me into atmospheric physics.
San Jose State University

B.S. , Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics , 1968 — 1972

This was California's public higher education system in its pre-Proposition-13 heyday. The majority of classes were relatively small and personal. While a physics major, I was adopted by the chemistry department. My freshman chem professor, Ruth Yaffee, was a nuclear chemist. I took both her nuclear chemistry and health physics classes. See also placed her students in summer jobs at LLNL, via a connection with Pete Stevenson in the Nuclear Chemistry division. I spent two summers working under Dave Camp and Lloyd Mann, hand analyzing Yytrium decay spectra and taking spectra with the Li drifted Ge detectors.

While at SJSU, I was doing independent research on a cold temperature, purple Vanadium complex under Richard Gaver in the basement of Duncan Hall. Another fond memory is of my mechanics professor, Leroy Posey, Jr. Dr. Posey was prone to statements like, "If it has that much energy it's going to take off like a bat out of the east side of west Hades".

Additional Information

Keith Eric Grant’s Websites:

Keith Eric Grant’s Interests:

Computational physics, simulation, science writing, massage education, inverse methods, Kalman filters, system dynamics, data assimilation, pattern classification, agent-based modeling. Off-work interests include: running, Scottish Country Dancing, Scandinavian Dancing, playing the recorder, hiking, and backpacking.

Keith Eric Grant’s Groups:

American Geophysical Union (AGU),
Society of Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM),
Northern California Science Writers Association (NCSWA),
National Association of Science Writers (NASW),
American Massage Therapy Association (AMTA)