Lee C. Gerhard, geologist, Senior Scientist Emeritus, University of Kansas

Lee C. Gerhard has extensive leadership experience in academia, government, and industry giving him a unique perspective on national and international issues. He is currently a practicing independent geologist, having retired as Getty Professor of Geological Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines and as State Geologist and Director, Kansas Geological Survey. He is a Senior Scientist Emeritus at the University of Kansas.

Among the many awards and honors he has received for his work is membership in the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, US Section, and honorary membership in several of his professional societies. He has more than 200 publications, including both technical and layperson communications.

Educated as a geologist at Syracuse University and obtaining his doctorate at the University of Kansas after a period of military service, he early acquired a background in meteorology leading to his interest in climate change . He has been actively studying climate change with more than twenty publications in that field during the last fifteen years. He was lead editor and author of Geological Perspectives of Global Climate Change, now in its second printing.

Raised on a dairy farm and a life-long outdoorsman, he has always studied the natural world. His parents taught him to question all dogma, to test theories with data and promulgate alternatives. He continues to do so defending the integrity of rational science.

Lee C Gerhard, geologist in the field