Professional Memberships 

Professional Memberships:

• American Geophysical Union

• Society of Exploration Geophysicists

• National Association of Geoscience Teachers

• Society of Mining engineers

• Los Angeles Geographical Society

• Fellow of the Explorers Club

Awards and Recognition:

• U.S. Antarctic Service Medal (U.S. Navy)

• “Dewart Island” Antarctica (U.S. Board of Geographic Names)

• Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers (Compton College Students)

Some Career Highlights:

• First American to reach the South Geomagnetic Pole (Earth’s “pole of cold”)

• First American to participate in Russian Antarctic over-snow traverses and airborne  operations

• First geophysical measurement of the continental extent of Antarctica

• First seismic station installed on a mountain glacier

• First person to explore a sub-glacial cavern system

• First conference on the potential instability of the polar ice sheets (organizer)