December 15, 2014
Down to Earth With: David Montgomery
From the length and breadth of his body of work, you might assume that David Montgomery, a geomorphologist at the University of Washington in …
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December 15, 2014
Down to Earth With: Past American Geosciences Institute Congressional Geoscience Fellows
The American Geosciences Institute’s (AGI) William L. Fisher Congressional Geoscience Fellowship provides an opportunity each year for a …
December 9, 2014
Down to Earth With: Naomi Levin
Stable isotope geochemist Naomi Levin, a native New Yorker, says she could easily imagine alternate career paths that would have been more in …
December 9, 2014
Down to Earth With: Eric Riggs
Eric Riggs says he often tells students the story of how he got into geoscience as a cautionary tale. That may seem ironic given his current …
December 8, 2014
Down to Earth With: Ecologist Chris Field
Last summer, the American Geophysical Union honored Chris Field, founding director of the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology, …
November 3, 2014
Down to Earth With: CEO and Geo-Data miner Nicole Barlow
Miners are the classic geo-entrepreneurs. Nicole Barlow is a new kind of geo-entrepreneur: She also mines — but instead of rocks, she digs into …
October 3, 2014
Down to Earth With: Molecular biologist Sarah L. Anzick
In May 1968, when Sarah L. Anzick was 2 years old, the 12,600-year-old remains of a male toddler were discovered at the base of a bluff on her …
August 29, 2014
Down to Earth With: Kerry Sieh
After more than 30 years as a professor and researcher at Caltech, earthquake geologist Kerry Sieh (pronounced “sea”) surprised his colleagues …
August 28, 2014
Down to Earth With: Tom Malloy
Butte, Mont., is home to one of the nation’s largest Superfund sites — a 300-meter-deep lake of acidic, heavy metal-contaminated water known as …
August 4, 2014
Down to Earth With: Chris Strong
Being a weatherman is sometimes a thankless job, particularly when forecasts don’t pan out as expected. But the two-fold task of meteorologists — …
June 16, 2014
Down to Earth With: Martin Lockley
Shortly after a young Martin Lockley — a British paleontologist specializing in marine fossils — arrived in Denver in 1980 to begin a new job as …
May 15, 2014
Down to Earth With: Steven Stanley
It’s no wonder Steven Stanley says he can’t imagine having pursued any career other than research and teaching in geology and paleontology. After …
May 12, 2014
Down to Earth With: Scott Sampson
During a recent public lecture at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, dinosaur paleontologist and evolutionary biologist Scott Sampson was …
January 29, 2014
Down to Earth With: Sally Jewell
Most people who find their way into public office start locally, perhaps by running for a seat on the school board or city council. Sally …
August 4, 2013
Down to Earth With: Neil Armstrong: First astrogeologist on the moon
One year ago this month, Neil Armstrong died in Cincinnati, Ohio, at the age of 82. Armstrong will be forever remembered for that historic first …
April 15, 2013
Down to Earth With: The Lava Cap Winery
During a long career at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the University of California at Berkeley, paleontologist David Jones, who died in …
November 7, 2012
Down to Earth With: Antarctic meteorite hunters
Dotted with snow dunes and nunatak mountain ranges, Antarctica’s glacial landscapes give the continent an otherworldly feel — but the scenery …
January 5, 2012
Down to Earth With: Nobel Prize winner Adam Riess
Astronomer Adam Riess and his team made a huge splash in 1998 when they announced they had discovered something called dark energy, the major …