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Geoffrey Notkin
Age: 48
Height: 5' 11"
Birth Place: New York City, New York, USA
Born: Feb. 1st, 1961
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BIOGRAPHY: Geoffrey Notkin is a television host, professional meteorite hunter, science writer, and photographer. He was born in New York's East Village, grew up in London, England, and now makes his home in the Sonoran Desert in southern Arizona. He studied geology, photography, and design in London, Boston and New York and is the owner of Aerolite Meteorites of Tucson-a featured exhibitor at the annual Tucson gem and mineral shows.
Geoffrey has authored more than sixty published articles on meteoritics, paleontology, adventure travel, history, and the arts, and his work has appeared in Sky & Telescope, Wired, Reader's Digest, The Village Voice, Seed, Rock & Gem, Geotimes, Meteorite magazine, The Field Guide to Meteors and Meteorites, Meteoryt (Poland), Mushroom (Germany), New York Press, The New York Sun, The Arizona Star, Tucson Weekly and many other national and international publications. He has worked extensively with most of the world's major meteorite institutions including The Natural History Museum, London; The Institute of Meteoritics at UNM, Albuquerque; and the Oscar E. Monnig Meteorite Gallery at TCU, Fort Worth. He is on the advisory board of Meteorite magazine and a member of the International Meteorite Collectors' Association, the Association of Applied Paleontological Sciences, and the Society of Southwestern Authors.
He has traveled to over forty countries and some of the world's most remote locations in search of elusive and valuable space rocks, including Chile's Atacama Desert, Iceland, England, Canada, Mexico, the Middle East and crossed the Arctic Circle in northern Siberia on-board an ex-military Russian helicopter.
Geoffrey appears regularly on television, notably as co-star of Meteorite Men for the Science Channel, and has made documentaries for National Geographic, Discovery, PBS, the BBC, The History Channel, A&E, and The Travel Channel. Alongside his long-time expedition partner, world famous meteorite hunter Steve Arnold, he guest starred in The Best Places to Find Cash & Treasures with Becky Worley and Wired Science with Adam Rogers.
TRIVIA:
- As a teenager, Geoffrey Notkin performed regularly as a drummer in the original punk rock movement in London. His first band, Chaos, was co-founded by Geoff and his childhood best friend, famed author and screenwriter Neil Gaiman.
- During the 1980s and '90s Geoff played professionally in a New York City rock band fronted by singer/songwriter Lach. Lach founded New York's Anti-Folk movement which spawned such artists as Beck, Moldy Peaches, and Langhorne Slim.
- Geoff's company, Aerolite Meteorites of Tucson, supplied a genuine iron meteorite for use in Hugh Jackman's "X-Men" prequel, the film "Wolverine." Unfortunately, footage of the meteorite did not make it into the final cut. Aerolite Meteorites also supplied an 88-lb iron iron meteorite as a birthday present for former Police front man, rock musician Sting.
- Geoff attended art school in New York City, where he studied cartooning, photography and illustration. He befriended and worked for legendary cartoonist Harvey Kurtzman, founder of "Mad" magazine. Geoff's first job after college was working for Art Spiegelman and his wife Francoise Mouly-Spiegelman. Art went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for his book "Maus," on which Geoff worked as a production assistant.
- "Deaf Geoff," one of the bubblegum cards from the satirical "Garbage Pail Kids" series popular during the 1980s, was based on Geoffrey Notkin.
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