David Tucker (geologist)
David Tucker is a geologist in Washington state. He is a research associate at Western Washington University, and was an instructor at North Cascades Institute, and the director of the now defunct Mount Baker Volcano Research Center. He operates the blog "Northwest Geology Field Trips", a "must-read" blog for laypeople interested in geology. In 2015, he published a popular book on Washington geology, Geology Underfoot in Western Washington. He resides in Bellingham, Washington.
Tucker is a 1974 and 2004 Western Washington University graduate.
In 2012, Tucker and two collaborators published a paper that described a new species of Gastornis, a flightless bird, Rivavipes giganteus. The description followed discovery of the largest known fossil bird footprint, found in the Chuckanut Formation, and which Tucker helped organize a volunteer team to helilift out of a landslide.
