George W. Moore Vitae

Curriculum Vitae for George W. Moore

Specialty: Tectonics

Education

Yale University, PhD 1960

Stanford University, BS 1950, MS 1951

Palo Alto High School, California

Work history

1987–2005, Courtesy Professor of Geology, Oregon State University

1996–2005, Honorary Scientist Emeritus, U.S. Geological Survey

1987–1995, Geologist (part time), USGS

1951–1987, Research Geologist, USGS

Other activities

1989–2005, Chair, Arctic Panel, Circum–Pacific Map Project; 1979–1989, Deputy General Chair

1991–2005, Chair, Condon Lecture Committee, Oregon State University

1988–2002, Instructor: Physical Geology I, Physical Geology II, Tectonostratigraphic Terranes, Geologic Report Writing, Oregon State University

1989–2001, Lecturer, Da Vinci Days, City of Corvallis

1992, Lecturer, Nanjing University, Hefei Polytechnic University, China Petroleum Institute, China Antarctic Research Center

1989–1990, Member, Convocations and Lectures Committee, Oregon State University

1990, External Reviewer, Department of Geology, Central Washington University

1987, Lecturer, World Explorer Cruises, Alaska

1986, Short course in accretionary tectonics, Indonesian Marine Geology Institute and National Petroleum Company, Bandung

1980, Lecturer, USSR Academy of Sciences

1978–1980, 1995–1997, Editorial board, Glossary of Geology, 2nd ed., 4th ed.

1978, Chair for Earth and Space Sciences awards, International Science Fair, San Diego

1977, Sedimentologist, Deep Sea Drilling Project, Leg 57, Japan

1972–1975, Research Associate, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

1966–1975, Geologist-in-charge, La Jolla Marine Geology Laboratory, U.S. Geological Survey

Society memberships

Geological Society of America (Fellow)

National Speleological Society (President, 1963-1965)

American Association of Petroleum Geologists (Committee Chair, 1977)

Peninsula Geological Society (President, 1986-1987)

American Association for the Advancement of Science (Fellow)

American Geophysical Union

Honors

Honorary Member, National Speleological Society, 1979

Superior Performance Award, U.S. Geological Survey, 1963, 1983

Certificate of Merit, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 1978

Defense of Dissertation Prize, Mineralogy Prize, President of Dana [Geology] Club, Yale University, 1959

Who’s Who in America, 2005