Early Career
Born in Chicago, he trained in geology at the University of Chicago, obtaining a bachelor's degree and 1939 and a master's degree there in 1942.
Early in his career, he combined his academic training as a geologist with his hobby as a photographer,and became expert in interpreting details of pictures and distinguishing natural features from manmade construction. He developed his new skills during World War II while serving in the Navy, studying aerial photographs of targets in Japan and the Aleutian and Kurile islands.
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