John W. Patoch

 John W. Patoch worked as a research support specialist in the milking  lab from its inception in 1990 until 1997. John is a Jack-of-all-trades with enormous skills in data acquisition, electronics, carpentry, pluming, refrigeration, and undoubtedly many others that we have yet to discover. John literally built the lab as well as most of our experimental apparatus. There was virtually no project that he could not figure out a creative solution for.  John was also a master of executing experiments and collecting large data sets in an efficient and accurate manner.  John's generous and colorful personality have been greatly missed since his departure to other adventures.