EditorialBrian Fowler, center, a geologist ?who helps run the Old Man of the Mountain Legacy Fund, hosts a remembrance event in Franconia Notch, N.H., May 3, 2023. (John Tully/The New York Times)
EditorialBrian Fowler, center, a geologist ?who helps run the Old Man of the Mountain Legacy Fund, hosts a remembrance event in Franconia Notch, N.H., May 3, 2023. (John Tully/The New York Times)
EditorialBrian Fowler, center, a geologist ?who helps run the Old Man of the Mountain Legacy Fund, hosts a remembrance event in Franconia Notch, N.H., May 3, 2023. (John Tully/The New York Times)
EditorialEmma McConville, who was laid off from a job as a geologist for Exxon Mobil during the pandemic, prompting her to re-evaluate her career and transition from oil and gas to geothermal energy, on a job site in Winnemucca, Nev. on Feb. 22, 2023. (Emily Najera/The New York Times)
EditorialAmy Gilligan, a geologist, at home with her Raspberry Shake — a small, inexpensive seismograph — in Aberdeen, Scotland, Nov. 17, 2022. (Peter Fisher/The New York Times)
EditorialWilliam Menke, a geologist at Columbia University, with a 1865 map of Morningside Heights in Manhattan on Dec. 15, 2022. (George Etheredge/The New York Times)
EditorialFrank Granshaw, a retired glacial geologist who sees a psychologist who is well versed on the climate, in Portland, Ore., Jan. 13, 2022. (Mason Trinca/The New York Times)
EditorialView from Powell's Plateau, Grand Canyon, Colorado, Thomas Moran, American, b. Britain, 18371926, Recto: Brush and watercolor, white gouache, graphite on tan wove paper Verso: Graphite on paper, Recto: View of the Grand Canyon from the rim of Powell's ...