Profile: Michael F. Diggles

Personal background
Michael F. Diggles is a Geologist and CD-ROM Publications Developer at U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park, California. He was the lead geologist on the Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project team and was senior author on the section on geology and minerals issues. Mike received his bachelor's degree from Humboldt State University and his Masters from San Jose State University, both in Geology. He has been with the USGS since 1977 and has produced 91 publications and 12 abstracts. His geologic and mineral-resource mapping as well as his potassium-argon geochronology studies have taken him to Alaska, the Great Basin, and the Sierra Nevada. He has made Congressional briefings on mineral issues and in 1993 received the Department of Interior's Superior Service Award for accomplishments in the USGS Wilderness Program.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I met Frank Drake about ten years ago and heard him speak at The Explorers Club (he's a Fellow of that group). After pondering the Drake Equation (N = R* * fp * ne * fl 5; fi * fc * L) and it became difficult for me not to believe there is extraterrestrial life.
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