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David H. Scott
David Holcomb Scott was an American geologist who worked for the United States Geological Survey, U.S. Geological Survey's Center of Astrogeology in Flagstaff, Arizona. Scott was involved in the Apollo Program, and served as project chief for the Mars geologic mapping program, which was funded by NASA's Planetology Program Office. He served as Discipline Scientist for the NASA Planetary geology, Planetary Geology and Geophysics Program, and founded the Lunar Geosciences Working Group, which resulted in publication of ''Status and Future of Lunar Geoscience''. He continued to publish scientific articles on Mars through the 1990s. He authored more formal lunar and planetary geologic maps than anyone else in the Branch of Astrogeology. According to Don Wilhelms in his 1993 book ''To a Rocky Moon'': A Geologist's History of Lunar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Geological Survey
The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an agency of the U.S. Department of the Interior whose work spans the disciplines of biology, geography, geology, and hydrology. The agency was founded on March 3, 1879, to study the landscape of the United States, its natural resources, and the natural hazards that threaten it. The agency also makes maps of planets and moons, based on data from U.S. space probes. The sole scientific agency of the U.S. Department of the Interior, USGS is a fact-finding research organization with no regulatory responsibility. It is headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with major offices near Lakewood, Colorado; at the Denver Federal Center; and in NASA Research Park in California. In 2009, it employed about 8,670 people. The current motto of the USGS, in use since August 1997, is "science for a changing world". The agency's previous slogan, adopted on its hundredth anniversary, was "Earth Science in the Pub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
