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THE CLASS AND ITS FATE - Class Member, Career Path, Contributions & Honors
Warren J. Nockleberg (AB ‘61)
wnokleberg@usgs.gov
Bruin Band . . . UCLA NROTC . . . completed PhD at UCSB (‘70, Mineral deposits,
Metallogenesis, bedrock geology, and tectonics of the central Sierra Nevada,
California, Stillwater igneous complex, Montana, eastern Alaska, the Russian Far
East, and Northeast Asia) . . . Line Officer, US Navy (1961-1965) . . . Associate
Professor of Geology at California State University, Fresno (1970-1976) . . .
Research Geologist, USGS since 1970 . . . field studies have slowly migrated
from the central Sierra Nevada to Alaska to the Russian Far East, and farther
west . . . leader: Mineral Resources and Metallogenesis of Northeast Asia . . .
currently Regional Coordinator for Northeast Eurasia for the Global Mineral
Resource Assessment Project.
- Fellow, Geological Society of America
- Fellow, Society of Economic Geologists
- Member, American Geophysical Union
- More than 260 scientific papers published
- Registered Geologist in California
(Image: Warren Nokleberg at the helm of a yacht in the
Vladivostok Harbor with Elena Koltunova, Associate Director for International
Relations, Far East Geological Institute (FEGI), Russian Academy of
Sciences(RAS), Vladivostok, and Alexander Khanchuk, FEGI Director. This
photo was taken on a “day off” on a tourist racing yacht chartered by the RAS
during a September 2004 NE Asia Project meeting. The yacht captain, after
learning of Warren’s four years at sea as a USN Line Officer (and having also
owned a racing sailboat) had him man the helm.)
Larry Patzkowski (AB ‘61)
Worked for the Pacific Gas and Electric Company . . . believed never to have
practiced as a geologist.
Gordon Pine (AB ‘61)
Went on for his PhD in geology at the University of Arizona . . . spent about
20 years working for several companies in metals exploration . . . most
recently a geologist for the Bureau of Land Management and National Park
Service.
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