Suneson, Neil: - A family vacation spent touring national parks int he West ignited Neil Suneson's lifelong passion for geology, which he went on to study at Amherst College (BS 1972) Arizona State University (MA 1976), and the University of California at Santa Barbara (PhD 1980). Neil joined the Oklahoma Geological Survey in 1986 and worked there until his retirement in 2017. The Roadside Geology of Oklahoma caps his long career of walking Oklahoma's ridges, streambeds, trails, and roads as a field geologist. Neil and his wife, Judy Reynolds, live in Norman, and have two adult sons and two granddaughters.