Language of the Earth

Frank H.T. Rhodes is President Emeritus of CornellUniversity. Winner of the Geological Society's Bigsby Medaland the Ian Campbell Medal from the Geological Society of America,Rhodes has served as Chairman of the National Science Board,President of the American Philosophical Society, and Chairman ofthe American Council on Education and also the American Associationof Universities. His other books include The Evolution ofLife, Geology, Evolution, Fossils, andThe Creation of the Future, as well as many articles ongeology, higher education, and the history of science.
Richard O. Stone (1920-78) was Chairman of theDepartment of Geological Sciences, UCLA. A past member of severalhonorary societies, Dr Stone wrote many technical articles forGeological Society of America, Journal of Sedimentary Petrology,and American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers.
Bruce D. Malamud is a Reader in Natural and EnvironmentalHazards at King's College, London. A past Peace Corpsvolunteer in Niger and Fulbright Fellow in Argentina, he currentlyserves as Chief Editor of Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics andPresident of the Natural Hazards Division of the EuropeanGeosciences Union. He has over forty publications in theinternational scientific literature, including Science, Proceedingsof the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of GeophysicalResearch, and Earth & Planetary Science Letters.