User:Gcherman56

Gregory Charles Herman earned a BSc in geology from Ohio University in 1982, eight years after having been raised on a farm and graduating from high school in west-central, rural Ohio. After earning a MSc in structural geology from the Univ. of Connecticut in 1984, I was hired by the NJ Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) to help regulate industrial facilities that discharged hazardous byproducts into the ground. I soon after transferred to the NJ Geological Survey (NJGS) to map bedrock geology and help define the state’s aquifers. I summarized that first decade of work into a focused, dissertation including various structural analyses of pre-Cretaceous bedrock to earn a PhD in Geology from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ in 1997. Now, after retiring in 2016 from 32 years of civil service, I teach geoscience at local secondary institutions and have been working as a geologist for Trap Rock Industries, Kingston, NJ since 2019. I also continue to research and write about impact tectonics, and maintain www.impacttectonics.org as my web outlet to share my research, class content and Earth-science data designed for use with geographic information systems including Google Earth. Since 2016 I have also been conducting geoarchaeological research centered on the New Jersey region, but with some 'far-field' excursions including the Nazca Line in Peru and the pyramids of Giza, Egypt.