Steve Austin

B.S. (Geology), M.S. (Geology), Ph.D. (Geology)

Field and Sedimentary Geologist, Senior Research Associate

Dr. Steve Austin is a field research geologist with a Ph.D. from Penn State University in sedimentary geology. His research adventures have taken him by helicopter into the crater of Mount St. Helens volcano, by bush plane onto glaciers in the high mountains of Alaska, by raft through the entire Grand Canyon, on horseback into the high Sierra, by elevator into the world’s deepest coal mines, by SCUBA onto the Great Barrier Reef of Australia, by rail into the backcountry of Korea, by foot onto barren plateaus of southern Argentina, and by four-wheel drive into remote desert areas of Israel, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. He is the author of three books, three videos, one computer software package, and more than thirty technical geology papers.