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Geoffrey Notkin is a professional meteorite hunter, science writer, and photographer. He was born in New York's East Village, grew up in London, England, and now makes his home in the Sonoran Desert in southern Arizona. He studied geology, photography, and design in London, Boston and New York and is the owner of Aerolite Meteorites of Tucson—a featured exhibitor at the annual Tucson gem and mineral shows. Geoffrey has authored more than sixty published articles on meteoritics, paleontology, adventure travel, history, and the arts, and his work has appeared in Sky & Telescope, Wired, Reader's Digest, The Village Voice, Seed, Rock & Gem, Geotimes, Meteorite magazine, The Field Guide to Meteors and Meteorites, Meteoryt (Poland), Mushroom (Germany), New York Press, The New York Sun, The Arizona Star, Tucson Weekly and many other national and international publications. He has worked extensively with most of the world's major meteorite institutions including The Natural History Museum, London; The Institute of Meteoritics at UNM, Albuquerque; and the Oscar E. Monnig Meteorite Gallery at TCU, Fort Worth. He is on the advisory board of Meteorite magazine and a member of the International Meteorite Collectors' Association, the Association of Applied Paleontological Sciences, and the Society of Southwestern Authors. He is currently at work on a memoir about his life as a meteorite hunter. He has traveled to over forty countries and some of the world's most remote locations in search of elusive and valuable space rocks, including Chile's Atacama Desert, Iceland, England, Mexico, the Middle East and crossed the Arctic Circle in northern Siberia onboard an ex-military Russian helicopter. Geoffrey appears regularly on television and has made documentaries for National Geographic, Discovery, PBS, the BBC, The History Channel, A&E, and The Travel Channel. Alongside his long-time expedition partner, world famous meteorite hunter Steve Arnold, he guest starred in The Best Places to Find Cash & Treasures with Becky Worley and Wired Science with Adam Rogers. Geoffrey Notkin is available for speaking engagements, lectures and slide show presentations, television appearances and freelance writing assignments. For media requests please Caroline Palmer or call (520) 591-2110 |
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