U.S. Geological Survey
| Name | Area | Department | Start Year | Stop Year | Advisor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edson Sunderland Bastin | economic geology | 1903 | 1905 | Frederick Leslie Ransome (research assistant), Waldemar Lindgren (research assistant) | |
| Philip Martin Bethke | Mineralogy | ||||
| Irving A Breger | fossil fuels | ||||
| James Douglas Byerlee | Earthquake Research | ||||
| Preston Ercelle Cloud | biogeology, paleontology, historical geology | ||||
| Allan Verne Cox | plate tectonics | 1951 | Clyde Adolph Wahrhaftig (research assistant) | ||
| Charles W. Cross | |||||
| Arthur Louis Day | geophysics, volcanology | ||||
| Daniel Hatim Doctor | |||||
| Richard Philip Fischer | |||||
| James Gilluly | geology | ||||
| Louis Caryl Graton | mining geology | 1903 | 1909 | Waldemar Lindgren (research scientist) | |
| Thomas Seward Lovering | Geology | ||||
| David Dale Owen | Geology | ||||
| Sidney Paige | Engineering Geology | ||||
| Frederick Leslie Ransome | economic geology | ||||
| James Morton Schopf | Paleobotany, palynology, coal geology | ||||
| Lillian Grace Smith | GIS, karst, geology, mapping, geoscience, hydrogeology, hydrology | 2022 | 2023 | Daniel Hatim Doctor (research assistant) | |
| William Taylor Thom | geologic investigations of coal, oil, and gas | ||||
| Earl Michael Thurman | organic geochemistry and environmental chemistry | ||||
| Clyde Adolph Wahrhaftig | Geophysics | ||||
| Jack Albert Wolfe | Paleobotany |