Dr Warren Nokleberg Emeritus Research Geologist

Warren J. Nokleberg U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, Calif., U.S.A. Dr. Warren J. Nokleberg is a research geologist in the Western Mineral Resources Team of the U.S. Geological Survey, based in Menlo Park, Calif. His current assignment is regional coordinator for Northeast Eurasia for the Global Mineral Resource Assessment Project (Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Mongolia, and China, South Korea, and Japan). His past assignment was leader of a project on the Mineral Resources and Metallogenesis of Northeast Asia (Siberia, Mongolia, northeastern China, South Korea, and Japan). Since starting graduate school in 1965, his major research emphases have been on the mineral deposits, metallogenesis, bedrock geology, and tectonics of the central Sierra Nevada in California, the Stillwater Complex in Montana, eastern Alaska, the Russian Far East, and Northeast Asia. He received a B.A. in geology from the University of California Los Angeles in 1961 and a Ph.D. in geology from the University of California Santa Barbara in 1970. He is a fellow of the Geological Society of America, a fellow of the Society of Economic Geologists, and a member of the American Geophysical Union. He has been employed by the USGS on a part-time or full-time basis since 1966 and recently completed 32 years of full-time U.S. Government service. He was a Regular Line Officer, U.S. Navy for 4 years (1961–65), was an associate professor of geology at California State University, Fresno, for 6 years (1970–76), and is author or coauthor of more than 240 scientific papers.