Harvey Thorleifson

Harvey Thorleifson has been Director of the Minnesota Geological Survey, State Geologist of Minnesota, and Professor in the Department of Geology and Geophysics at the University of Minnesota since 2003. He is originally from western Manitoba, he did his undergraduate work at University of Winnipeg, and he completed a Masters thesis in geology on Lake Agassiz history at University of Manitoba in 1983.

His 1989 geology Ph.D. at University of Colorado in Boulder dealt with Hudson Bay Lowland Quaternary stratigraphy. His early career research on Lake Agassiz, the Great Lakes, Hudson Bay, and North American glacial history evolved to work on indicator mineral methods in mineral exploration, geological and geochemical mapping, regional groundwater investigations, shoreline erosion, and flooding while at the Geological Survey of Canada from 1986 until 2003.

Harvey is active with the Association of American State Geologists, he is registered as a Professional Geoscientist in Ontario, he was the 2004-2006 President of the Canadian Geoscience Council, now renamed the Canadian Federation of Earth Sciences, he was the 2003-2004 President of the Geological Association of Canada, he is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Great Lakes Research, and he was a founding member of the OneGeology organizing committee, a project to accelerate geologic map web accessibility worldwide.

Harvey Thorleifson Ph.D., P.Geo.,

State Geologist of Minnesota;

Director, Minnesota Geological Survey;

Professor, Department of Geology and Geophysics; University of Minnesota;

2642 University Ave W,

St Paul, MN 55114-1057 USA;

Telephone 612-627-4780 ext 224;

Fax 612-627-4778;

thorleif@umn.edu

gsaf@geosociety.org (800) 472-1988 x 1054GSAF - P.O. Box 9140 - Boulder, CO 80301