 Wes Ward
Chief, Astrogeology Program
U.S. Geological Survey
Flagstaff, AZ
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 BS, Washington
State University (Geology)
MS, University
of Washington (Geological Sciences)
PhD, University
of Washington (Geological Sciences) |
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Chief, Astrogeology
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Ward:
"There are probably two types of satisfaction that I have had. One is, and
probably it's really the lesser of the two, to sit back out in the field,
maybe in your lawn chair, certainly by the campfire, and lookout at a
geological feature. Perhaps it's a mountain, and say, "I have walked every
part of that mountain. I have mapped it. And I understand it." That is not
anywhere to say, that I am equal to that mountain that I have mastered it,
but it certainly does say that I have given it my best and I know almost
all of its secrets. All that I have asked of it, it has given back to me.
The other thing that I think is more rewarding, is to have made a
difference in people's lives, an again, those people can be some of the
students that we work with, or it could be some of the professionals, or
ordinary citizens that I have met, and perhaps even the most remote sense,
in terms of remote sensing, it may be someone that I have never met."
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