Sustainability Social Hour November

About this event

Dr. Steven Adams is a veteran, first-generation college student, and received his PhD in Geology from the University of Oklahoma School of Geosciences. He studies the formation of dust-sized sediment particles by conducting experiments to replicate natural erosional processes, using devices he designed and built to replicate glacial grinding of rocks into dust and erosion of sand migrating in deserts. He founded Bison Underground where he builds tools and machines that rapidly restore damaged or lost topsoil by leveraging and accelerating the natural processes that build soil. He has additional interests in planetary geology, geoscience education, and the application of geology to advance human efforts in sustainable development. Originally from Evansville, Indiana, after high school he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps. He served in an AV-8B Harrier II squadron maintaining tool accountability and as an Embassy Guard in Paraguay, Australia, and Rwanda, while attending classes online at American Military University. After being honorably discharged he continued school while living abroad in Namibia. Eventually he returned to the United States, where he received a BS in Geology from Indiana University and an MS in Geology from the University of Oklahoma.