Stephen M. Richard

Dr. Richard graduated in electrical engineering from MIT and holds an MSc in Geosciences from The University of Arizona.

Stephen Miller Richard obtained undergraduate degrees in Earth and Planetary Science and in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1978. After a year of working as an electrical engineer at Lawrence Livermore Lab, he returned to graduate school, obtaining a Master's degree in from the University of Arizona, and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), both in Geology. Steve's graduate and post-doctoral work were focused on geologic mapping, structure and tectonics, and thermochronology, in complexly deformed terranes in the Arizona and California Basin and Range and the Fosdick Mountains in West Antarctica. In 1992 Steve was selected to fill a research geologist position at the Arizona Geological Survey (AZGS), and over the next 17 years working on a series of geologic mapping projects in the Arizona Basin and Range. As chief of the geoinformatics section at the AZGS, Steve was engaged in geologic data management, development of GeoSciML, an XML markup language for geoscience information interchange, and development of the US Geoscience Information Network and National Geothermal Data System (NGDS) to deploy web services for geoscience information exchange, the XML implementation of the updated international standard for geospatial metadata (ISO 19115-1), chaired the CGI Geoscience Terminology Working Group and worked on projects developing a proposed architecture design and resource catalog system for the NSF EarthCube initiative. In 2016 he retired from the AZGS to work as a technical director with the Interdisciplinary Earth Data Alliance at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) until January 2018. Steve continues working on various geoinformatics projects including a resource registry for EarthCube and knowledge representation models for 3-D geology.