Stephen Lindberg

Steve Lindberg

Johnstown, Pennsylvania

Candidate for NAGT Eastern Section President

2025-2027

I am an adjunct professor of geology in the Department of Geosciences and the Environment at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, Pennsylvania. I began teaching at Pitt-Johnstown in 1997; my college courses there include Prehistoric Life, Earthquakes and Volcanoes, Meteorology, and Geologic Field Methods. After retiring from public education in 2012, I was able to increase my course load at Pitt-Johnstown and spend more time pursuing interests in geology and geoscience eduction; especially paleontology and the regional geology of western Pennsylvania. I have been a member of the National Association of Geoscience Teachers since 1992, and currently serve as president of the eastern section for 2023-2025. I have been eastern section president two previous times. In 1992 I was awarded the eastern section’s Outstanding Earth Science Teacher for Pennsylvania (OEST) by the National Association of Geoscience Teachers. I have organized and hosted four eastern section spring conferences including two here at Pitt-Johnstown. Most recently I organized and hosted the 2023 conference which was held at the Museum Of The Earth in Ithaca, New York. And our eastern section May, 2024 conference held In Berkeley Springs, West Virginia. I am also the current Archivist for the eastern section and a regular contributor of articles to our eastern section newsletter, The Bulletin.  I am a member of the Geological Society of America and attend the northeastern section meetings with our Pitt-Johnstown geology students on a regular basis. As a regular participant in the annual Field Conference of Pennsylvania Geologists I served as a field trip leader during recent conference field trips; and most recently organized a fall 2024 field trip across the Gettysburg, Pennsylvania battlefield.  As a geologist and geoscience educator; I maintain a strong commitment to bring the geoscience experience to others and routinely arrange field trips for college classes, as well as rock and mineral clubs from across Pennsylvania and the region. As part of this commitment I work with a private land owner to establish The New Paris Limestone Quarry, in Bedford County, Pennsylvania as a geoscience educational site to help accomplish these goals. Over the past 3 years we have hosted no fewer than 10 rock and mineral clubs along with other interested groups at the quarry for a day of geoscience education. Some of my more recent geologic excursions include assisting on a March 2016 Pitt-Johnstown geology club spring break trip to Iceland, a 2018 trip to Scotland, and a March 2022 trip to Hawaii, and a recent March 2024 trip to Portugal.

As president of the eastern section I will continue my commitment to bring geoscience education to all members of our community.