J. D. Macdougall

J. D. MACDOUGALL is Professor Emeritus of Earth Sciences at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, and the author of more than one hundred articles in professional journals. His recent books include Why Geology Matters, Nature’s Clocks and Frozen Earth.

Macdougall has published in Scientific American and contributed to the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, and conducted research in geochemistry at Scripps for many years.

When not writing, Macdougall has worked as a geoscientist and educator, traveling from Siberia and the Canadian Arctic to the floor of the Pacific Ocean in the submersible Alvin. That firsthand fieldwork across the globe informs his writing on earth sciences.

Doug lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.

J. D. Macdougall’s books are published by Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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