Category: Pacific Northwest geology

Goldfarb, Ben

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Ben Goldfarb is the author of Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter, winner of the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award and named a best book of 2018 by the Washington Post. His environmental journalism has also appeared in the Atlantic, Science, The New York Times, Outside Magazine, High Country News, and many other publications. His next book, on the science of road ecology, will be published in 2022 by W.W. Norton & Company. Ben lives in Spokane, Washington, with his wife, Elise, and his dog, Kit — which is, of course, what you call a baby beaver.

Ben spoke about his beloved beavers in Feb. 2021. (Updated Oct. 2021)

 

Schasse, Hank

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In June 2015, Hank Schasse presented an overview of the geology of the upper Quimper Peninsula, and illustrate many of these relations during his talk. This talk is based on his 2004-05 mapping of the Port Townsend and Port Hadlock areas.The following day, Hank led a field trip to see some of his mapping. He spent much of his career mapping the geology of Washington.  Hank is now retired but still loves to share his knowledge of the area of Port Townsend.

Cox, Steve

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Steve Cox graduated from University of Puget Sound in 1978 with a degree in Environmental Science, then went to work at Brown & Haley for two years.  He was then hired as a temporary employee by the USGS to help on the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, and contoured on at the Cascades Volcano Observatory for two years. During this time, he attended the UW as a Post-Bachelors non-matriculating student in Geology; he strengthened his geology expertise by taking all their Geology classes except Paleontology. In 1983, he joined the groundwater water quality section of the USGS’s Washington water science center in Tacoma.

In Feb. 2019, Steve discussed methods and results of “Dating groundwater in Puget Sound.”  (Updated Oct. 2021)