Ed Stump
Ed Stump was hired at ASU in 1976 on a one-year contract to supervise a class called Geology of Arizona, and retired in 2014 teaching a class called Exploration–The Human Imperative. He served as chair of the then Geology Department at ASU from 1991 to 1995. Throughout his National Science Foundation-funded research career, he logged 13 field seasons in Antarctica, studying the geology of the Transantarctic Mountains, as well as projects in the Alaska Range and the Himalaya.