<p>
	<img alt="" src="{filedir_5}RAFE_1.png" style="width: 250px; height: 189px; float: right;" />Rafe Payne would be the first to admit that, in his career in biology, he started small, studying parasites of waterfowl in western Nebraska and fish in the Pacific Ocean. But Rafe moved on in life to bigger things, now studying marine mammals, especially seals, dolphins, and whales, and delighting students with his knowledge, vivacious teaching style and integration of faith and science in Au Sable&rsquo;s <em>Marine Mammals</em> course, taught each year at Au Sable&rsquo;s Whidbey Island campus in Washington. Rafe&rsquo;s college education began in California (where he now resides), receiving a B.A. in Biology from Westmont College. From there Rafe took up graduate studies at the University of Nebraska (a long way from either coast) where he earned an M.S. and Ph.D., first studying parasites of ducks (M.S.), and then gill parasites of marine fishes (Ph.D.).&nbsp;</p>
