Legendary People

One faces the future with one's past. - Pearl S. Buck

AEG is proud to present biographical information on some of the legendary professionals in our field. We encourage you to share this resource with others and promote the accomplishments made on behalf of environmental and engineering geology.

If you would like to submit a biography, please contact AEG headquarters.

• Marcel Arnould (1927-2011)
• Charles Alexander Baskerville (1928-2009)
• Frederic Bell (1938-2014)
• Joseph H. Birman (1924-2015)
• Glenn Alvin Brown (1924-2015)
• Scott Burns (1947- )
• John P. Buwalda (1886-1954)
• Howard Coombs (1906-1990)
• Martin G. Culshaw - 2006 Burwell Award
• William Davies (1917-1990)
  
• Joe de Beer (1938-2022)
• Thomas Wilson Dibblee, Jr. (1911-2004)
• Ernest Dobrovolny (1912-1996)
• Rollin Eckis (1905-1999)
• Edwin B. Eckel (1906-1989)
• Harry F. Ferguson (1921-1989)
• John D. Fett (1933-2009)
• Thomas W. Fluhr (1898-1987)
• Richard W. Galster (1930-2011)
• Mason Lowell Hill (1904-1993)
• Jasper L. Holland (1919-2011)
• Seena Hoose (1941-2008)
• Charles Butler Hunt (1906-1993)
• Richard H. Jahns (1915-1983) 
• Fred Oscar Jones (1912-1983)
• R.W. Karpinski (1906-1982)
• Clifford Alan Kaye (1916-1985)
• Charles R. Kolb (1920-1982)
• George Kiersch (1918-2001)
• Willard C. Lacy (1916-2013) 
  
• F. Beach Leighton (1924-2012)
• Stanley W. Lohman (1907-1992)
• John F. Mann, Jr. (1921-1998)
• Burton H. Marliave (1917-1991)
• John T. McGill (1921-1987)
• Richard L. Moberly (1944-2011)
• Berlen C. Moneymaker (1904-1982)
• John E. Moylan (1936-2015)
  
• Allen H. Nicol (1907-1986)
• Robert H. Nesbitt (1906-1990)
• Frank W. Osterwald (1922-1989)
• Daniel Allen Penick Jr. (1932-2011)
• Vladimir P. Pentegoff (1899-1982)
• Shailer S. Philbrick (1908-1994) 
• Gordon W. Prescott (1912-2006)
• F. Leslie Ransome (1868-1935)
• Charles Richter (1900-1985)
• George D. Roberts (1910-1980)
• Lewis I. Rosenberg (1962-2013)   AEG News Memoriam   GSA Nomination
• Damon R. Runyan (1939-2011)
• Martin N. Sara (1946-2006)
• C. Michael Scullin (1932-1995)
• David 'Burt' Slemmons (1922-2017)
• James Edward Slosson (1923-2007)
• George Ter-Stephanian (1907-2006)
• Dorothy LaLonde Stout (1941-2001)
• Martin Lindy Stout (1934-1994)
• William Harold Stuart (1910-1987)
• Jasper L. Stuckey (1891-1979)
• Robert E. Tepel (1937- )
• Ruth D. Terzaghi (1903-1992)
• Eugene B. Waggoner (1913-1991)
• Susan Steele Weir
• Charles W. Welby (1926-2020)