Dickas, Albert B.

Born in Ohio, Albert Binkley Dickas earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Miami University

(Oxford, OH). After serving in the US Navy, he earned a PhD at Michigan State University and then worked in the petroleum industry. He then joined the faculty of the University of Wisconsin Superior, where he taught for thirty-one years and founded an environmental research center. During this time he led numerous field conferences, authored and coauthored more than thirty papers, and delivered presentations from Nova Scotia to Siberia all on the subject of Precambrian oil and Precambrian riftin...