| rdfs:comment | - Upon graduation, Skinner took a job at his alma mater as an assistant chemist, and enrolled in graduate school at Columbian University (now the George Washington University) in 1896. He graduated with an M.S. from Columbian in 1898. In 1899, Skinner married Georgia née Mitchell, with whom he later had a daughter. From 1899 to 1901, he served in an assistant chemist post at the University of Arizona. While there, he also studied geology and coached the football team in 1900 and 1901. He guided Arizona to 3–1 and 4–1 records, respectively.
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| abstract | - Upon graduation, Skinner took a job at his alma mater as an assistant chemist, and enrolled in graduate school at Columbian University (now the George Washington University) in 1896. He graduated with an M.S. from Columbian in 1898. In 1899, Skinner married Georgia née Mitchell, with whom he later had a daughter. From 1899 to 1901, he served in an assistant chemist post at the University of Arizona. While there, he also studied geology and coached the football team in 1900 and 1901. He guided Arizona to 3–1 and 4–1 records, respectively. In 1904, Skinner studied botany and physical chemistry at the University of California. That summer, he worked as a chemist at the University of Arizona School of Mines. Following that, he took a job as a food inspection chemist with the Bureau of Chemistry of the United States Department of Agriculture, where he worked until 1908. Skinner then became the chief of the bureau's Water Laboratory. In 1911, the Maryland Agriculture College awarded him an honorary M.S. degree. As of 1914, Skinner was living in Kensington, Maryland and continuing his work as the chief of the Water Laboratory. The Baltimore Sun described Skinner as "a nationally prominent agricultural chemist and one of the nation's foremost conservationists, who was one of the first researchers to study pollution in the Chesapeake Bay." Skinner served on the Board of Regents at the University of Maryland from 1916 to 1941, including as its chairman from 1935 onward.
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