Geology and Minerals

Eleanora Robbins

Eleanora Iberall Robbins (née Eleanora Roberta Iberall; born 1942), known as Norrie Robbins, is an American geologist. She worked as a research geologist for the United States Geological Survey (USGS) from 1967 to 2001 and was an adjunct faculty member at San Diego State University from 2001 to 2015. Robbins specialised in palynology, the study of fossil pollen and spores, and applied it to the analysis of ore and petroleum deposits. Her later work concerned geomicrobiology, particularly the role of microbes in iron and manganese oxidation and in acid mine drainage. She holds a United States patent, with Motoaki Sato, for an ozonation method of recovering metals from waste water. Robbins served in the Peace Corps in Tanzania from 1964 to 1966, where she was the first female field geologist with the Geological Survey of Tanzania. After retiring she taught outdoor science to children on reservations in San Diego County, work for which the Climate Science Alliance gave her its 2023 Climate Adaptation Leadership Award.

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• ▸Germanium
• ▸Glenugie
• ▸Geological history of Point Lobos

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