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Ivo Lucchitta

Ivo’s love affair with the geology of the Colorado River and its Grand Canyon began in 1963 while working on his PhD thesis, and has continued unabated ever since. He has been a college professor and a research geologist for the U.S. Geological Survey; he has worked on the Quaternary Geology of the Grand Canyon and was part of the Apollo team for manned lunar exploration. Ivo is now dedicated to teaching non-geologists the fascinating stories that Earth has to tell and so has appeared in NOVA documentaries, contributed articles to such publications as Plateau Journal, Boatman’s Quarterly Review, and Grand Canyon Nature Notes, and has authored Hiking Arizona’s Geology, (The Mountaineers Books 2001). Ivo has led river trips and hikes through Grand Canyon for over 20 years for professional geological societies such as the Geological Society of America, for river guides training seminars and for private groups interested in learning about the Grand Canyon.