Norman M. Meader

Norm supports the geophysics group principally with word processing and some computer illustration work. He diligently tries to keep all of the department's geophysicists connected with the world. Norm received his M.S. in geology (soft rock) from the University of Arizona in 1977, where he studied sedimentary environments and paleoecology of Devonian rocks. He subsequently worked for four years for Cities Service Oil Company (now Occidental Petroleum), which trained him to interpret seismic reflection data. After quitting Cities Service, he was hired by Marathon Oil Company to work in its research laboratory in Littleton, Colorado, where he spent three years in an international studies group doing seismic reflection studies in such diverse areas at the Navarin Basin in the Bering Sea, Andean basins in South America, Cretaceous/Jurassic rift basins in Sudan and Kenya, and the western arm of the East African Rift.

Norm left the oil industry in 1985 and returned to Tucson where he was hired by Mountain States Mineral Enterprises as a word processor. In 1987 he was hired by the Department of Geosciences at the University of Arizona as part of its start-up package in reflection seismology, begun by Roy Johnson. Norm has continued his education at the University of Arizona, specializing in tectonics.