Albert B DickasBorn in Ohio, ALBERT B. DICKAS earned bachelor�s and master�s degrees from Miami University (Oxford, OH). After serving in the US Navy, he earned a PhD at Michigan State University and then worked in the petroleum industry, where knowin your fossils helps identify important stratigraphic layers. He then joined the faculty of the University of Wisconsin�Superior, where he taught for thirty-one years and founded an environmental research center. Today he lives in southwest Virginia, where he continues to engage in research and plan travel excursions in his quest for new and interesting geo-sites on all seven continents. He is the author of the companion volume 101 American Geo-Sites You�ve Gotta See, as well as Ohio Rocks! A Guide to Geologic Sites in the Buckeye State, also published by Mountain Press. Read More Read Less