Tom Foster:
CLASS OF 1967
Cabrillo High SchoolClass of 1967
Lompoc, CA
University of CaliforniaClass of 1971
Santa barbara, CA
Tom's Story
Life
Hello everyone- its been a long time since 67.... After that I went to UCSB as a chemistry major and wound up with a bachelor's in Geology and Geochemistry. I then went to Baltimore where I earned my Master's and Ph. D. at Johns Hopkins in metamorphic petrology (Geologists always invent fancy terms for what could be expressed in plain English - I study chemical reactions that occur in the deep parts of mountain belts like the base of the Himalayas. Most people with gemstones on their finger have a metamorphic...Expand for more
mineral - diamond, ruby, emerald, sapphire etc.- with an incredible tale to tell about what it has been through.) I then taught at UCLA for a couple of years in '75 and then moved to the University of Iowa in '78, where I've been a professor ever since. My work has taken me to a lot of interesting places like the Colorado Rockies, Idaho, Northern Maine, northern Canada, the Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan (very nice people), east central Brazil (Oro Preto) , Jamaica, Northern Greenland and the Swiss Alps.
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