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Andre Potochnik, Ph.D.

Andre is a geologist who has been a Colorado River guide for 30 years, has led backpacking excursions for nearly as long and has been a university instructor and a field instructor for Northern Arizona University, Museum of Northern Arizona, and Grand Canyon Field Institute. Andre has extensively researched the history of the uplifting of the Colorado Plateau and the evolution of the Grand Canyon and he is a contributing author to Colorado River Origin & Evolution, (Grand Canyon Association 2001) and Grand Canyon Geology, (Oxford Press 1990).