Bruce Scofield is a PhD candidate in the Geosciences department at the University of Massachusetts. His work is concerned with Gaia theory and solar system influences on climate and life; how minute fluctuations in the cosmic environment are amplified and accomplish profound transformations in the atmosphere and biosphere. Specifically, his thesis examines temperature variations in the northern hemisphere correlated with Saturn-Sun geocentric alignments. For the past five years he has assisted Lynn Margulis in her course Environmental Evolution and has conducted discussion sections for James Walker’s honors course Cosmos to Humanity (Bio 270H) which surveys current scientific knowledge from the Big Bang to the future of life, all in the context of the theory of evolution. In addition to his work at the University of Massachusetts, Scofield teaches the following subjects for Kepler College, an online college with symposia based in Seattle, WA: Astronomy 283, Geocosmic Connections 300C, History of Psychology 310, and Mesoamerican Myths and Ethnoastronomy

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336B. He has served on the education committee of the National Council for Geocosmic Research since 1979 and was that organizations national education director between 1997 and 2002. He holds a BA in history from Rutgers University and an MA in social sciences from Montclair University.

Scofield has authored sixteen books including The Timing of Events, The Circuitry of the Self, and Signs of Time. In addition to these and other serious works on geocosmic studies and ethnoastronomy he is also the author of six recreational guidebooks including 50 Hikes in New Jersey, Hiking the Pioneer Valley and Fodor’s Short Escapes in New England. He has had over 200 papers and articles published in journals, magazines and anthologies. He

maintains a website, OneReed.com dedicated to the investigation and restoration of ancient Mesoamerican ethnoastronomy. Recent academic publications include “Precedents to the Gaia Hypothesis” in Scientists Debate Gaia and “Life Internalizes Geocosmic Cycles” in Chimera and Consciousness: the origin of sensory systems (forthcoming). Scofield has delivered over fifty invited presentations at international conferences on geocosmic studies.

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