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Bob Critchlow
I grew up in South Bend, Indiana, a couple of miles north of the University of Notre Dame campus. The surface in Northern Indiana is covered by Pleistocene glacial till, which contains rocks scraped from the Precambrian Canadian shield. The till contains every type of rock imaginable in a rainbow of colors. I collected the […]
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Lou Lambiotte
I was a Pre-Med student majoring in Chemistry, then Psychology, and finally graduating with a BS in Zoology. I had 148 undergraduate hours towards a 128 hour BS degree when I took Geology I in my final year in college. And I realized I really liked it! But after five years in college, it was […]
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John Worley
I graduated from High School in 1945 just as World War II was winding down. The need for draftees took a dramatic drop, so I went off to college right after school was out. There was never any doubt about where I would go to college. My family was located in eastern Ohio on the […]
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Sara Venable
Growing up I was more interested in catching crawfish in the creek behind our house then in looking at rocks. That was a long time before I ever heard the word Geology and even longer before I knew people don’t just catch crawfish, they eat them too. The setting was the suburbs of Austin, and […]
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Jeanie Timmermann
When I started college in the early seventies, I chose elementary education as my major as many of my friends had also done. Then during my coursework, I took Historical Geology as a science elective and was fascinated with the subject. The professor made the course so interesting that I was totally taken with geology. […]
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Roger Steinberg
I’ve really enjoyed reading the “How I Got into Geology” columns in the CCGS Bulletin each month. Some geologists caught the fever early in life, some at a later date. I did both. I admit it here publicly for the first time—I was a science nerd as a kid (see elementary school photo from the […]
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Brent Hopkins
Why rocks?During my sophomore year of high school at Penn Yan Academy in central New York, I was lucky enough to have Ms. Jepson for Earth Science (I think – the name might be wrong but she was definitely a Ms.). In this class we were introduced to the various concepts of Geology, and from […]
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Dennis Taylor
Life is surrounded by a complex set of beautiful natural patterns both simple and complex. I have been surrounded by them since the day I was born and have constantly been in awe of the wonders of these natural patterns on our fantastic planet. That is the number one reason that I got into Geology […]
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Eric Gardner
Well, this past month it finally happened. Owen came a calling. About 2 weeks ago, I received an email from Owen asking for my story of how I got into the Oil & Gas Industry. In my foolishness, I thought I could brush Owen off with a quick note: Why, almost 25 years ago, did […]
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Mike Bergsma
Like everyone else who has shared their story, how can anyone turn Owen Hopkins down? How did I get into Geophysics? Well, first off, I knew from the time that I was twelve that I wanted to be a scientist. I know, I know that is hopelessly nerdy, but it is a fact. I was […]
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