Wendell Duffield

Through a series of unexpected events, my life moved from small-town rural Minnesota, to a fancy New England Prep school, to Carleton College, and then Stanford where I got a PhD in geology. Ever since, I've been chasing volcanoes ... first for the U. S. Geological Survey and now as an Adjunct Professor at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. Being a research scientist and writing technical papers for more than three decades was heady, but at around age sixty I realized that I wanted to communicate with a broader variety of readers than the PhD-toting group. So I started writing popular books and magazine/newspaper essays, some related to volcanoes and some not. All my books are listed at Amazon. You can get the flavor of my other writings by visiting http://oak.ucc.nau.edu/wad3