Geoffrey Notkin

Height: 180 cm

Geoffrey Notkin is a television host, professional meteorite hunter, science writer, and photographer. He was born in New York's East Village, grew up in London, England, and now makes his home i ...Show More

Geoffrey Notkin is a television host, professional meteorite hunter, science writer, and photographer. He was born in New York's East Village, grew up in London, England, and now makes his home in the Sonoran Desert in southern Arizona. He studied geology, photography, writing, and design in London, Boston and New York and is the owner of Aerolite Meteorites LLC of Tucson, a featured exhibitor at the annual Tucson gem and mineral shows.Geoffrey has written more than one hundred published articles on meteoritics, paleontology, adventure travel, history, and the arts, and his work has appeared in "Astronomy," "Sky & Telescope," "Wired," "Reader's Digest," "The Village Voice," "Seed," "Rock & Gem," "Geotimes," "Meteorite" magazine, "The Field Guide to Meteors and Meteorites," "Meteorite Hunting and Collecting Magazine," "Meteoryt" (Poland), "Mushroom" (Germany), "New York Press," "The New York Sun," "The Arizona Star," "Tucson Weekly" and many other national and international publications. He is also the author of the book "Meteorite Hunting: How To Find Treasure From Space." He writes a science and arts blog, "The Logical Lizard," for TucsonCitizen.com and his column "The Adventurist" is published by IndieReader.comGeoffrey has worked extensively with most of the world's major meteorite institutions including The Natural History Museum, London; The Institute of Meteoritics at UNM, Albuquerque; The American Museum of Natural History in New York City; The Center for Meteorite Studies at ASU, Tempe; and the Oscar E. Monnig Meteorite Gallery at TCU, Fort Worth. He is a member of the Explorers Club, the International Dark-Sky Association, the International Meteorite Collectors' Association, the Association of Applied Paleontological Sciences, and the Society of Southwestern Authors. He has traveled to over forty countries and some of the world's most remote locations in search of elusive and valuable space rocks, including Chile's Atacama Desert, the Australian Outback, Iceland, England, Canada, Mexico, the Middle East and had crossed the Arctic Circle three times.Geoffrey appears regularly on television, notably as host of "Meteorite Men" for Science. The third season of"Meteorite Men" premiered in the winter of 2010 and has won two Telly Awards. Geoffrey has also made documentaries for National Geographic, Discovery, PBS, the BBC, The History Channel, A&E, and The Travel Channel. Hide