Jeff Marque had an early interest in education and teaching. While a sophomore at Reed College, he started tutoring high school students. A year after his college graduation, Jeff Marque found a copy of James Wilkerson’s book, Medicine for Mountaineering. Using this book as a basis for a class, Marque created a course in medicine for mountaineers that was offered to hundreds of outdoors persons at the University of California School of Medicine in San Francisco. After doing anesthesia research and teaching part of another wilderness medicine course that he created and managed at UCSF in 1974, Jeff Marque returned to school in 1975. He studied chamber music on a full scholarship at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, while simultaneously enrolled in the physics graduate program at San Francisco State University. After the fall 1975 semester, Jeff Marque focused his studies entirely on physics. He graduated with his Master of Science in 1977 and was accepted into the physics doctoral program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. While composing his dissertation there, Jeff Marque was awarded a grant to perform postdoctoral research in Japan, in the field of protein dynamics. After Jeff Marque returned to the United States, he took a position with Cornell University to conduct additional postdoctoral research in protein dynamics. Following this, he lectured in the physics department at the University of San Francisco, teaching courses in electricity and magnetism in addition to classical mechanics. In 1988, Jeff Marque became an Engineering Staff Physicist at SmithKline Beckman’s Spinco Division in Palo Alto, California. He continued working with Beckman after its spinoff from SmithKline, and he began giving lectures to the engineering and research personnel. Over four consecutive summers starting in 1990, Jeff Marque taught evening classes at the College of San Mateo in the field of physics. He also organized and hosted weekly engineering seminars at Beckman. In 2008, he accepted a position with Northrop Grumman Marine Systems, where he initiated and managed a knowledge continuity project.