Houston Chronicle, October 3, 2014
…After high school, he found work with the oil field services firm Halliburton, according to his résumé. He earned a geology degree at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin, then enrolled in a master’s program at SMU, where he became a favored student of a scientist named Brian Stump.
“He’s curious; he was hands-on,” Stump recalled. “He was not somebody that closes his mind to things.”
At SMU, Pearson studied seismic imagery. After earning a doctorate, he followed Stump to the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. Their research focused on coal mining explosions that could be mistaken by foreign governments for nuclear weapons testing. The work took Pearson around the world, contributing to documents with names like “Shallow Velocity Structure at the Shagan Test Site in Kazakhstan.” READ MORE