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Ian Madin grew up hiking, backpacking, skiing and rafting in the mountains of California. His love of the outdoors led him to geology degrees from UC Berkeley and Oregon State University, where he did field research in the Pakistani Himalaya and the South Island of New Zealand. During his college years he spent ten years as a river guide in Oregon, Idaho and California and three years as a sea kayaking guide in Baja California. After graduation he started a 34-year career with the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries working on earthquakes, landslides, tsunamis, geologic mapping and lidar data collection. Throughout his career, Ian tried to make the science he studied more accessible to the general public through hundreds of presentations and media appearances geared toward technical and non-technical audiences. In retirement, Ian has taken up stone sculpture using naturally shaped and patinaed stone foraged in Oregon. He also teaches field geology for OSU and PSU, is the ride-along geologist for Cycle Oregon, a member of the Advisory Board for the OSU College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, and is President of the Board of the Oregon Origins project which puts on art events based on Oregon indigenous traditions or Oregon’s geology