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John L. Berry

Biography

BA, 1963. MS Geology/Oceanography, 1966. John worked on Ice Station T-3 between college
and graduate school began his career on the Zambian Copperbelt in 1966. On emigrating to the
USA in 1973 he taught at a community college in the Great Smoky Mountains for two years and
then joined Earth Satellite Corporation, a remote sensing consulting company in Washington,
DC. There he worked on exploration projects in Chile, Brazil, Namibia, Australia, western China
and the Middle East. In 1982, he joined Shell Mining to do gold exploration in the western USA,
and when that folded he was transferred to the Shell Research Lab in Houston to establish a
Remote Sensing group.  There he did frontier exploration in fold belts and developed methods
to assess the presence of oil charge deep ocean basins worldwide.

After leaving Shell, John did consulting work for mining companies in Canada, Latin America,
and Australia and for oil companies in South Korea, India and Australia. In retirement, he has
developed interests in our local geology and in touring areas of geological interest on a bicycle,
as well as in sculpting stone and in choral singing. He is also interested in the question of
whether the availability of geological resources will place limits on the future and direction of our
civilization.