Category: Locations of Interest

Gallin, Will

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Will Gallin is the carbon sequestration project lead at the Washington Geological Survey’s (WGS) Dept of Natural Resources (DRN). He has worked for the Dept. of Ecology in Lacey, the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge in Socorro, New Mexico, and the Hess Corporation—an oil and gas exploration and production company in Texas. He graduated in 2005 from Carleton College in Minnesota, and got his MSc in 2010 from the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. His other DRN job is as a mapper for the landslide hazards program.  His favorite geological disciplines are sedimentology, stratigraphy, paleontology, and salt tectonics.

Will presented on “Geologic carbon sequestration in Washington State” in Dec. 2020.

Wallace, Terry

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Terry C. Wallace Jr. was raised in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and graduated from Los Alamos High School in 1974. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in geophysics and mathematics from New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, followed by a Master of Science and PhD in geophysics from the California Institute of Technology.

From 1983 to 2003, he was a professor at the University of Arizona. In 2006 Terry heard the call home and moved back to Los Alamos to become LANL’s Principal Associate Director for Science, Technology, and Engineering, then Principal Associate Director for Global Security. He served as the 11th Director of Los Alamos National Laboratory until his retirement in 2018.

In his off time, Terry is a marathon-style wilderness runner and avid hiker.  He is a mineral collector, a hobby fostered by his father from an early age. Terry has visited mining communities and mineral localities across the Americas, and has written extensively on various aspects of mineralogy for amateurs. He is the author of the popular mineral book Collecting Arizona. As you can suspect, Gold is one of his favorite minerals.

In Oct. 2020, Terry made an invaluable presentation on “Gold—A Journey from the Big Bang to the Amazon.”  (Updated Oct. 2021)

Ward, Peter

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Dr. Peter Ward is a paleontologist and astrobiologist at the University of Washington and a world-renowned authority on mass extinctions, climate change, evolution, and astrobiology.  His research examines the history of life on Earth over billions of years, focusing in particular on mass extinction events.  That work gives him unique ‘deep time’ perspectives on the future of life on this planet, as well as the possibility of life elsewhere in the universe.  Dr. Ward has appeared on NOVA and Ted Talks and written over a dozen popular science books including “Rivers in Time: the Search for Clues to Earth’s Mass Extinctions” and “The Flooded Earth: Our Future In a World Without Ice Caps.”   In Dec. 2019, Peter presented on “The (Coming) Great Simplification.”  (Updated Oct. 2021)