GEOPHYSICS, including the subtopics:

• Exploration geophysics
• Solid-earth geophysics
• Physical properties of rocks

• Environmental geophysics and geology, exploration methods for petroleum and mineral resources, earthquake prediction and seismic risk, interpretation of Earth's crustal structure and properties, engineering geophysics.

• 12:180 -- Environmental Geophysics - Earth's physical nature, and consequences for its geological development.  Internal structure, earthquakes and seismology, gravity, geomagnetism, radioactivity and age dating, monitoring our terrestrial environment.
• 12:181 -- Exploration Geophysics - Methods of prospecting for oil and gas, mineral deposits, groundwater, and subsurface structure.
• 12:280 -- Geophysics Seminar.
• 12:281 -- Gravity and Magnetic Exploration.
• 12:282 -- Seismic Exploration.
• 12:288 -- Rock Magnetism and Paleomagnetism.
• 12:103 -- Earth Revealed (telecourse).

• Since 1977 -- Professor, The University of Iowa - with leaves to serves as geology instructor on Semester-at-Sea circumglobal voyage, visiting professor at Meiji University (Tokyo) and Tokyo Institute of Technology, Fulbright Summer Geology program in Iceland.
• Formerly -- Research Geophysicist at Shell Exploration Research Center, Houston, Texas.

• "Achievement Award" from NASA, for MAGSAT satellite work and investigation of Earth's crust.

• 1968 -- Post-doctoral Research Fellowship, Osaka University (Japan).
• 1967 -- Ph.D., Earth & Planetary Science, University of Pittsburgh.
• 1964 -- M.S., Earth & Planetary Science, University of Pittsburgh.
• 1963 -- B.A.Sc., Engineering/Geophysics, University of Toronto.

• Notable Natural Disasters, 3 vols. (1050 pp.), as co-editor and contributing author, Salem Press, Pasadena Calif. (2007)
• Natural Disasters, 3 vols. (985 pp.), as co-editor and contributing author, Salem Press, Pasadena Calif. (2001)
• Seismic Observatories, in book Survey of Science: Earth Science, Salem Press (Dec. 2000).
• Articles on Three Gorges Dam China, Trans-Alaska pipeline, and the Minamata mercury poisoning, in Encyclopedia of Environmental Issues, Salem Press (publ. Feb. 2000).
• Use of satellite magnetic surveys to interpret deep crustal structure, cratonic paleomargins, and associated metallogenic province in the central U.S., Global Tecton. & Metall., v. 5, p. 31 (1995).
• Rocks and minerals section (17,000 words) in Encyclopaedia Britannica, Macropaedia (1995).
• Reconnaissance crustal assessment of metallogenic occurrence in the central U.S.: geotectonic application of satellite magnetic anomaly data, Global Tecton. & Metall., v. 4, p. 97 (1993).
• Prediction of and hazard assessment for earthquakes and tsunamis in the Japan region, Proc. 29th Internat. Geological Congress, Kyoto (1992).
• Physical Properties of Rocks and Minerals, 741 pp., CRC Press Inc. (1989).