USGS Geology Scientist Emeritus Program

Scientists Emeriti At Work

Photo: Emeriti Harry Cook leading the 2006 Annual Great Basin Field Trip

I just returned last month from leading the 2006 Annual Great Basin Field Trip which focused on studying the carbonate sequence stratigraphy of the 15,000 foot-thick Paleozoic passive margin carbonate platform.

Participants included 30 oil and gold focused geoscientists as well as professors and students from South America and the western United States. Also attending was Jonathan Price the State Geologist and Director Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology.

Harry E. Cook, Ph.D.
08/03/2006

Photo: Emeriti Jim Moore entering the Japanese deep diving submersible "Shinkai 6500" Photograph of Jim Moore entering the Japanese deep diving submersible "Shinkai 6500" aboard the research vessel "Yokosuka" for dive number 700 which dove to a depth of 4512 meters north of the Hawaiian Island of Oahu, August 2, 2002.

Eight samples and continuous photographs were taken on the flank of a large block from a giant landslide from the volcano. This was part of a cooperative program of the U. S. Geological Survey and the Japan Marine Science and Technology Center (JAMSTEC) to study the submarine flanks of the Hawaiian Volcanoes.

This cruise was in 2002, 7 years after I retired in 1995. One Japanese scientist remarked that I was the tallest and oldest person that had ever dove in the submersible.