Dr. Steve Austin
Talk
1: Mount St. Helens
Talk 2: The Grand Canyon
Date: May 14th, 7:00pm
Dr. Steve Austin, Senior Research Scientist at ICR will be speaking at our May RMCF membership meeting, and will lead an RMCF Safari (Field Trip) to the Garden of the Gods for our members on Saturday, May 15.
Dr. Austin's research interests include The Grand Canyon, Grand Canyon dating project, Nautiloid mass kill in the Redwall Limestone, earthquakes in the Middle East in the Biblical Record, and his Flume project to demonstrate how fast-flowing water can deposit stratified layers. Dr. Austin is likely to share with us general information about Creationist Geology as well as valuable information from his many research projects.
Dr. Austin is a field research geologist with a Ph.D. from Penn State University in sedimentary geology. He is "Senior Research Scientist" with Institute for Creation Research in Dallas, Texas. Dr. Austin has performed geologic research on six of the seven continents of the world. His research adventures have taken him by helicopter into the crater of Mount St. Helens volcano, by bush plane onto glaciers in the high mountains of Alaska, by raft through the entire Grand Canyon, on horseback into the high Sierra, by elevator into the world's deepest coal mines, by SCUBA onto the Great Barrier Reef of Australia, by rail into the backcountry of Korea, by foot onto barren plateaus of southern Argentina, and by four-wheel drive into remote desert areas of Israel, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
He is the author of three books, three videos, one computer software package, and more than thirty technical geology papers. Dr. Austin's field research within Grand Canyon includes over 400 nights camped out below the Canyon's rim. He has launched 22 raft trips within Grand Canyon. He has explored very remote areas of Grand Canyon by mule, helicopter and ATV. His book "Grand Canyon: Monument to Catastrophe" and his DVD "Grand Canyon: Monument to the Flood" summarize his investigations. Dr. Austin has over ten technical papers on Grand Canyon. Subjects of his technical publications on Grand Canyon include lava dams, breached dams, fossils, limestones, sandstones, basalts, diabase sills and radioisotope dating. He is widely known for his discovery of the regionally extensive mass-kill and burial bed within the Redwall Limestone about 2000 feet below the Canyon's rim.
To learn more about Dr. Austin and his work, please visit http://www.creationwiki.org/Steve_Austin.