My name is Andrew Kruegel and I am currently a junior at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ where I plan to major in chemistry and philosophy. I have been fascinated by science since I was a young boy and have been collecting minerals for nearly as long. More recently I have greatly increased my personal collecting efforts. As a New Jersey resident, I have developed a particular interest in my state's fine trap rock minerals and have amassed a rather large collection in that area. However, zeolites and their associates are certainly not my only area of collecting interest and I have recently been attempting to fill out my collection with minerals from other environments and locales.