TIMOTHY M. KUSKY is a professor at St. Louis University in Missouri, where he teaches courses in geologic hazards, environmental geology, structural geology, remote sensing, tectonics, and Precambrian crustal evolution. He has an active, award-winning research program, including projects in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, the United States, Canada, and Australia. Kusky received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in geological sciences from the State University of New York at Albany, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in earth and planetary sciences from The Johns Hopkins University. He did post-doctoral studies in the De...