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Hugh Dinsmore Miser (18 December 1884 - 1 August 1969) was an American geologist who made many contributions to geology including publishing the first geologic map of post-statehood Oklahoma in 1927, as well as the revised map in 1954, and served as a geologist for the United States Geological Survey (USGS) for nearly his entire career.

Born in Pea Ridge, Arkansas, he attended the nearby University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, Arkansas where he received a Bachelor's degree in geology in 1908, followed by a Master's degree in 1912. While an undergraduate student in 1907, Miser worked as an aide to Professor Albert H. Purdue surveying the geology of parts of Arkansas for the USGS. In 1910, he was appointed as a Junior Geologist with the USGS and married Mary Goddard, a resident of Fayetteville, Arkansas. After obtaining his Master's degree in 1912, he was promoted to Associate Geologist at the USGS, followed by Geologist in 1919. He temporarily left the USGS in 1919 to take the role as Acting State Geologist of Arkansas and to become a geology professor at the University of Arkansas while the college's only geology professor, Noah Fields Drake, was on leave. Following the academic year, Miser returned to his duties with the USGS and soon began making a geologic map of Oklahoma.

In 1926, he took the role of Acting State Geologist of Tennessee.

1926USGS - Chief of the Section of Areal Geology

1928-Jul 1 1947USGS - Chief of the Fuels Branch

1954 OK map

1955 Scientific Staff Assistant to the Office of the Director of the USGS

Honors
Early in his career, Hugh Miser was elected as a Fellow in the Geological Society of America in 1916. In 1949, he was conferred an honorary Doctor of Law from his alma mater, the University of Arkansas. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Award by the United States Department of the Interior in 1955. He was a member of several professional organizations and held honorary memberships in many, including the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, New Mexico Geological Society, Oklahoma City Geological Society, Tulsa Geological Society, The Oklahoma Gem Society, and Sigma Gamma Epsilon.

Tributes
Many geologic discoveries were named in honor of Hugh Miser, including:

Miserite, a mineral previously named natroxonotlite that was discovered in Arkansas.

Calliglypha miseri, an extinct brachiopod. (***circumstantial, Miser mentioned elsewhere***)

Hustedia miseri, an extinct brachiopod. (***circumstantial, Miser mentioned elsewhere***)

Obolella miser, an extinct brachiopod. (***Not named after Hugh D. Miser; named in 1884, Miser born in 1884***)

Rhombopora persimilis var. miseri, an extinct brachiopod. (***no mention of Miser, but Arkansas localities***)

Stenopora miseri, an extinct bryozoan. (***no mention of Miser, but Arkansas localities***)

Tabulipora miseri, an extinct bryozoan. (***no mention of Miser, but Arkansas localities***)

Cravenoceras miseri, an extinct cephalopod later reassigned to Stenoglaphyrites miseri, then Rhadinites miseri , then Euroceras miseri (***circumstantial, Miser mentioned elsewhere, localities in Arkansas***)

Cycloplectoceras miseri, an extinct cephalopod. (***no mention of Miser, but Arkansas localities***)

Cymoceras miseri, an extinct cephalopod. (***Specifically named after Miser***)

Euroceras miseri, an extinct cephalopod.

Panderodus miseri, an extinct conodont. (***circumstantial, Miser mentioned elsewhere, localities in Arkansas***)

Dendrograptus miseri, an extinct graptolite. (***Specifically named after Miser***)

Conocephalites miser, an extinct trilobite, later reassigned to Ptychoparia miser, then Labradoria miseri. (***Not named after Hugh D. Miser; named in 1861***)

Calamites miseri, an extinct plant. (***circumstantial, Miser mentioned elsewhere***)