Phil Pearthree is the new State Geologist of Arizona. According
to the Arizona Geology blog, “AZGS has a new director and Arizona a new State
Geologist. University of Arizona Dean of Science, Dr. Joaquin Ruiz, confirmed
that Phil Pearthree, Ph.D., is the new director of the Arizona Geological
Survey. As part of his duties, Dr. Pearthree assumes the role of Arizona State
Geologist. Phil follows former State Geologist Lee Allison who died tragically
in a fall in Aug. 2016. Phil received his B.S. at Oberlin College, and M.S. and
Ph.D. at the University of Arizona. He joined AZGS in 1988 and was chief of the
Environmental Geology section for more than a decade. As an AZGS research
geologist, Phil has authored or co-authored more than 100 geologic reports and
maps over the past 29 years. In 2013, Phil and two co-authors received the prestigious
Kirk Bryan Award from the Geological Society of America’s Quaternary Geology
and Geomorphology Division for their report, 'Stratigraphic evidence for the
role of lake-spillover in the inception of the lower Colorado River in southern
Nevada and western Arizona'.”
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