DECORATED COMBAT PILOT, GEOLOGIST, LEGISLATORE WANTS TO SAMPLE LIFE AS A SCIENTIST
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****************************************** Congressman Jim Gibbons, center, gets an up-close and personal tour of DRI's Ice Core Lab clean room. Trace Chemist Steve Lambert , left, explains how he analyzes ice cores from Greenland as a cameraman from Reno's NBC-TV affiliate, KRNV, Channel 4, chronicles the event for the evening news. (Photo by Ron Kalb) ****************************************** |
It was Congressman Jim Gibbons' first visit to DRI, but you can bet it won't be his last. “I've been a geologist, a lawyer, an airline pilot, a military pilot, a Nevada legislator and now a congressman in Washington, D.C. But I know what I'm going to be when I come back to Nevada,” Gibbons, R-Nev., told an overflow crowd of faculty and staff at a post-tour reception in the E. W. Stout Conference Center. [more]
