Surprise Valley
Common Ground Symposium

Graham Fogg

received a B.S. in Hydrology from the University of New Hampshire, an M.S. in Hydrology and Water Resources from the University of Arizona, and a Ph.D. in Geology from The University of Texas at Austin, where he also worked at the Bureau of Economic Geology during 1978-1989. In 1989 Graham relocated to University of California, Davis. He has more than 30 yrs experience researching and teaching about subsurface water flow and pollutant transport processes, modeling of heterogeneous subsurface systems, and groundwater analysis related to water contamination (MTBE, perchlorate, pesticides, nitrate), ecosystem function, water resource sustainability, and high-level nuclear waste isolation. Graham’s research interests include transport processes in heterogeneous systems, characterization of aquifer complexity, hydrogeologic processes affecting ecosystem function, natural attenuation of contaminants, remediation, long-term analysis of non-point-source groundwater contamination, regional hydrogeology, and heat transport in groundwater. He teaches courses at UC Davis in groundwater hydrology, groundwater modeling, applied geostatistics, and water resources. He served as Chair of the Hydrologic Sciences Graduate Group from 1993 to 1998 and 2006-present, and Chair of the Hydrology Program from 1998 to 2001. He was the 2002 Geological Society of America Birdsall-Dreiss Distinguished Lecturer. Dr. Fogg is a Fellow in the Geological Society of America.

Malcolm Margolin

is a legend in publishing in California, based in Berkeley. He is also a Native American expert and publishes "News From Native California." For the past two decades this publication has recorded and shared stories of Native People -"dances have been plucked from extinction, languages long silent were brought back to life." The Los Angeles Times has said "News From Native California has probably the widest literacy range of any periodical in the Western Hemisphere."  He is publisher of Heyday Books which he founded in 1974.

Eldridge M. Moores

holds a Ph.D. from Princeton and is a UC of Davis Distinguished Professor Emeritus. President of the Geological Society of America, 1996. Tectonics, structural geology and petrology; ophiolites of western U.S. and Tethyan belt, geology of Greece, Cyprus, and Pakistan; tectonic development of Sierra Nevada and Alpine--Himalayan systems. Recent projects include geology and tectonics of the northern Sierra Nevada; processes of ophiolite emplacement; tectonics of spreading centers; late Precambrian correlations between Antarctica and North America; and late Precambrian environmental change. Co-author of “Bedrock, Writers on the Wonders of Geology,” (Trinity University Press, 2006) “Structural Geology,” (W.H. Freeman, 2006) and “Tectonics,” (W.H. Freeman, 1995)