Earth Knowledge

The Earth Knowledge Network is a diverse group of scientists and other professionals who provide reliable information about the Earth and the issues we face. Please check back soon to see a growing list of our Network members.

The Earth Knowledge Network is a diverse group of scientists and other professionals who provide reliable information about the Earth and the issues we face. If you are interested in becoming a Knowledge Provider, please email your CV to frank@earthknowledge.net

Network Members:

		Frank A. D'Agnese	User Profile
		Frank A. D'Agnese, Ph.D. is an expert in the integration of earth and environmental science knowledge to address issues of resource sustainability. He is the president of Earth Knowledge, Inc. and serves as Director of Coordination for the expanding Earth Knowledge Network.	User Contributions
		Location: Tucson, Arizona
		Research Interests: Knowledge Management for the Earth and Environmental Sciences, Geospatial Technologies, Geology, Engineering, Ecology

		Gary Dixon	User Profile
		After 33 years with the U. S. Geological Survey, geologist Gary Dixon started his own company, Southwest Geology, in Blackfoot, Idaho. Dixon specializes in geologic framework studies, ground-water resources, geologic mapping and other geophysical investigations. Dixon excels at collaborating with other experts in the geosciences to solve the kind of problems facing many urban communities today. He has also led geologic efforts on many extensive and high-profile projects with the Southern Nevada Water Authority, water supplier for the perpetually parched city of Las Vegas.	User Contributions
		Location: Pocatello, Idaho

		Peter Rowley	User Profile
		Pete Rowley is a field geologist and hydrogeologist who lives with his wife Dawna on a 6-acre mini-ranch in rural SW Utah, with views to the east of the Hurricane fault and the NW part of Zion National Park. A field geologist is a generalist who does his best thinking in the field, preferably during day-long traverses in remote mountains doing geologic mapping, but also using research methods to solve practical problems on any geologic topic. Pete has spent a wonderful career doing such research, primarily in the western United States. After getting a doctorate, he spent two years teaching college in the Midwest, then was hired as a geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Denver to map geology in the last unexplored mountains in Antarctica. In the year 2000, Pete retired from the USGS after 30 years, taught college for a year, and then started his own geologic consulting business,Geologic Mapping, Inc.	User Contributions
		Location: New Harmony, Utah

		Pete Townsend	User Profile
		Mr. Townsend has eighteen years experience as a consulting hydrogeologist and engineer. Mr. Townsend received his Bachelor of Science in geological engineering in 1987 and began his career as a geotechnical engineer with Golder Associates. In 1991, Mr. Townsend received a Master of Engineering degree from the Colorado School of Mines. Following a two-month geotechnical engineering project in Indonesia, Mr. Townsend joined the ground-water modeling group at Dames & Moore. This internationally recognized modeling team developed and maintained ground-water modeling software and provided practical modeling solutions on projects throughout the world. In 1999, Mr. Townsend took a position with an Internet technology firm, developing web-enabled devices. Mr. Townsend's responsibilities included management of software and hardware development teams and coordination of co-development partnerships with corporations that include Motorola, AT&T, Sun Microsystems, and IBM. Mr. Townsend returned to the field of hydrogeology, joining NewFields in 2001 and becoming partner in 2003.	User Contributions
		Location: Denver, Colorado

		Bill Wingle	User Profile
		Bill Wingle's career started at the Colorado School of Mines as a Research Professor. He concentrated on geostatistics and simulation, and developed open source software (UNCERT) combining these tools with groundwater models (MODFLOW and MT3D) and visualization. He took a break from groundwater for a few years and developed commercial software to control home and office automation hardware. He is back now mixing his technical strengths consulting in hydrogeology, geostatistics, modeling, and software development.	User Contributions
		Location: Denver, Colorado

		Keith Turner	User Profile
		Keith joined the Colorado School of Mines faculty in 1972 and currently is Emeritus Professor of Geological Engineering. Prior to joining Mines, taught at the University of Toronto, and worked as an Engineering Geologist for the Ontario and Canadian Federal governments. For three years (1999-2002), he served as Professor of Engineering Geology at Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands, and divided his time between Mines and Delft. This position coincided with a period of renewal and expansion of infrastructure in The Netherlands, demanding novel geological and geotechnical engineering approaches for assessing soft ground conditions, coastal protection works, and use of underground space. This resulted in consultations with several European Geological Surveys concerning their responses to challenges in spatial data management, visualization, and analysis.	User Contributions
		Location: Golden, Colorado
		Research Interests: How computers and spatial information technologies can impact geological, engineering, hydrogeological, and environmental studies, and how such applications can influence society at large - especially the creation and use of 3-Dimensional geological models.