Evolution from Medical Geology to GeoHealth and future development prospects
a China University of Mining and Technology, Beijing 100006, China
b University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75241, USA
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Professor Robert B. Finkelman, retired in 2005 after 32 years with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). He is currently a Research Professor in the Dept. of Geosciences at the University of Texas at Dallas, a Distinguished Professor at the China University of Mining and Technology and an Adjunct Professor at the China University of Geosciences, Beijing. He is an internationally recognized scientist widely known for his work on coal chemistry and as a leader of the emerging field of Medical Geology. Dr. Finkelman is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America and has served as Chairman of the Geological Society of America's Coal Geology Division; President of the Society for Organic Petrology; member of the American Registry of Pathology Board of Scientific Directors and is Past-Chair of the GSA's Geology and Health Division. Currently he is a Board Member of the U.S. Section of the Society for Environmental Geochemistry and Health and is on the Advisory Board of the GeoHealth Section of the American Geophysical Union.
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