Via NewYork Times:
Bob Stallard is the geologist on the expedition, and I’m just going to go ahead and say it: He looks an awful lot like Eric Clapton. Like Clapton, Bob has been doing great work for decades and is highly regarded in his field. But where Clapton tends toward songs like “Hellhound on My Trail,” Bob’s songbook runs more along the lines of, say, “Quartz Pebbles Probably Dating to a Miocene Deposition Event on My Trail.” The surface geology of northern Peru is extremely complex, and it’s a lot easier for biologists to interpret what we see on the landscape when we’re accompanied by a whip-smart geologist. Having along a whip-smart geologist who looks like he could have played the Isle of Wight in his younger days makes it all the more fun.
Bob’s approach in the field is a good deal steadier than that of the rest of the team.
