John Wesley Powell

John Wesley Powell

male, deceased (1902)
from Boone County, Illinois, green river, smithsonian institution, unitedstatesgeologicalsurvey, colorado river, American
John Wesley Powell (March 24, 1834 - September 23, 1902) was a U.S. soldier, geologist, and explorer of the American West. He is famous for the...
Clarence King

Clarence King

male, deceased (1901)
Henry Adams, Yale University alumni, death by tuberculosis, Sierra Nevada, unitedstatesgeologicalsurvey, mountaineer…Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel, California Geological Survey
Clarence King (January 6,1842 - December 24,1901) was an American geologist and mountaineer. He was the first director of the United States...

Mark Myers

male
Geologist, ConocoPhillips, University of Wisconsin at Madison, us geological survey, arco, university of alaska…unitedstatesgeologicalsurvey
Mark Myers is an American geologist. Myers became the fourteenth Director of the US Geological Survey (USGS) on 26 September 2006 after...

David White

male, deceased (1935)
Cornell University, Cornell University alumni, Geologist, Curator, smithsonian institution, unitedstatesgeologicalsurvey
David White (1862 - 1935) was an American geologist, born at Palmyra, New York. He graduated from Cornell University in 1886, and in 1889 became a...
Charles Doolittle Walcott

Charles Doolittle Walcott

male, deceased (1927)
Paleontologist, smithsonian institution, fossil, unitedstatesgeologicalsurvey, American, invertebrate
Charles Doolittle Walcott (March 31, 1850 - February 9, 1927) was an eminent American invertebrate paleontologist. He has become well-known for his...
David A. Johnston

David A. Johnston

male, deceased (1980)
University of Washington, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign alumni, Mount Augustine, unitedstatesgeologicalsurvey, volcano, University Of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign
David Alexander Johnston (December 18, 1949 - May 18, 1980) was a volcanologist with the United States Geological Survey (USGS). Johnston was...

Susan Hough

female
Biographer, Earthshaking Science, Susan Elizabeth Hough, Charles Richter, University of California, Berkeley alumni, University of California, Berkeley…unitedstatesgeologicalsurvey
Susan Elizabeth Hough (born 1961) is a seismologist at the United States Geological Survey in Pasadena, California, and scientist in change of the...
Erasmus Haworth

Erasmus Haworth

male, deceased (1932)
Newton, University of Kansas, Johns Hopkins University, Geologist, wichita, union pacific railroad…unitedstatesgeologicalsurvey, Geological Survey of America, Missouri Geological Survey, Kansas Geological Survey
Erasmus Haworth was an American geologist. Born on a farm near Indianola, Iowa, he graduated from the University of Kansas with a bachelor of...
William Henry Holmes

William Henry Holmes

male, deceased (1933)
Geologist, Archaeologist, Anthropologist, geological survey, Native American, u.s. geological survey…unitedstatesgeologicalsurvey
William Henry Holmes (December 1, 1846 - April 20, 1933) was an American anthropologist, archaeologist, geologist and museum director. Born in...
Florence Bascom

Florence Bascom

female, deceased (1945)
Bryn Mawr College, geomorphology, schist, gneiss, Basque American, piedmont…unitedstatesgeologicalsurvey, Geological Society of Washington, geological society of america
Florence Bascom (1862 in Williamstown, Massachusetts; died 1945) was the first woman hired by the United States Geological Survey. She was of...