John W. Attig is a transplanted New Englander who misses the ocean and mountains. He pursued his interest in glacial and Quaternary geology while a graduate student at the University of Maine at Orono (M.S., 1974) and the University of Wisconsin (Ph.D., 1984). Since 1981 he has been affiliated with the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey and is presently a professor at the University of Wisconsin.