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Geoffrey Notkin

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A two-time Emmy Award winner, Geoffrey Notkin hosted the hit television "Meteorite Men" for Science Channel, and "STEM Journals" for Cox Media. He has also appeared in programs for Disney, Discovery, TLC, A&E, National Geographic Channel, History Channel, Travel Channel, NASA, PBS, and the BBC. Notkin is a science writer, memoirist, columnist, television and film producer, photographer, world traveler, TEDx speaker, and adventurer.

An award-winning author, Notkin has written four books and hundreds of published articles on science, adventure travel, history, and the arts, with his work appearing in USA Today, Wired, Forbes, Robb Report, Smithsonian, Scientific American, Reader’s Digest, Astronomy, Sky & Telescope, The Village Voice, Rock & G A two-time Emmy Award winner, Geoffrey Notkin hosted the hit television "Meteorite Men" for Science Channel, and "STEM Journals" for Cox Media. He has also appeared in programs for Disney, Discovery, TLC, A&E, National Geographic Channel, History Channel, Travel Channel, NASA, PBS, and the BBC. Notkin is a science writer, memoirist, columnist, television and film producer, photographer, world traveler, TEDx speaker, and adventurer.

An award-winning author, Notkin has written four books and hundreds of published articles on science, adventure travel, history, and the arts, with his work appearing in USA Today, Wired, Forbes, Robb Report, Smithsonian, Scientific American, Reader’s Digest, Astronomy, Sky & Telescope, The Village Voice, Rock & Gem, Geotimes and many other national and international publications. He is the author of two science columns: "Meteorwritings" for Geology.com and "Throwing Pebbles at the Sky" for the National Space Society.

Notkin has worked with many of the world’s important science institutions including The American Museum of Natural History, New York; The Natural History Museum, London; The Vienna Museum of Natural History, Austria; The Center for Meteorite Studies at ASU, Tempe; the Institute of Meteoritics at UNM Albuquerque; and the Oscar E. Monnig Meteorite Collection in Fort Worth, Texas. He is a long-time member of the Explorers Club and the Association of Applied Paleontological Sciences. Notkin sits on the Board of Directors of the Astrosociology Research Institute, the Board of Governors of the National Space Society (NSS), and is President Emeritus of the NSS.

Adventuring has taken Notkin to over sixty countries and some of our planet’s most remote areas including Siberia, Chile’s Atacama Desert, the Sahara, and the Australian Outback and he has three times crossed the Arctic Circle. He was born in New York City and raised in London, England, studied literature, writing, design, geology, astronomy, and photography London, Boston and New York and graduated with honors from New York City's prestigious School of Visual Arts.

The asteroid 132904, discovered at Mount Palomar Observatory, was officially named "Notkin" by the Minor Planet Center at Harvard in recognition of his contributions to science, education, and the arts. ...more

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Un-American: The Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II by Richard Cahan

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An exquisite work about a dismal period in American history. Authors Cahan and Michaels sift through 7,000 black and white photographs in the National Archives that document the incarceration of Japanese-Americans during World War II, then set out to identify and interview survivors. Read more of this blog post »

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	Rock Star: Adventures of a Meteorite Man by Geoffrey Notkin (Goodreads Author), Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 4.91 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Meteorite Hunting: How to Find Treasure from Space by Geoffrey Notkin (Goodreads Author), Chris Cokinos (Introduction), Larry Lebofsky (Editor) 4.51 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Incredibly Strange and Amazing Real-Life Adventures in the World of Comic Books 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The World Came to Tucson by Katherine Rambo, Suzanne Morrison (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Norma Morrison (Editor) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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