Publishing Buried Geological Data for the Benefit of Professional Geologists

Abstract

In the early 1970s, the late, great Professor John J.W. Rogers, then Chairman of the Geology Department, arranged a fellowship for me to come to Rice University as a senior graduate student to bring diversity to his geology department. I had just spent 10 years in industry working on mineral exploration and environmental projects and he decided that my presence in directing early EPA projects on groundwater development and other projects involving mineral exploration would expose the graduate students and staff to perspective beyond pure geological research that Rice was well known for in world-wide applications in basic geological to applied geological research, as in that needed in the developing environmental field and in economic geological research. I noticed this lack of transition from academic research to applied (for industrial needs) in my research for the text Water Well Technology, published by McGraw-Hill in early 1973. I emphasized this need in an editorial in the journal Ground Water in late 1973 (here). Second, I soon realized that the geosciences and engineering had compartmentalized over the years and that one specialization within one sub-field did not communicate much with the other.

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