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Professor Peter Guth was educated at Deep Springs College, West Point (US Military Academy), and earned a PhD from MIT on a Hertz Fellowship doing geologic mapping in the Sheep Range north of Las Vegas. He served in the military on active duty for 11 years, and the reserves for 17 years. He has taught at West Point, the University of Nevada Las Vegas, and has been on the faculty of the Naval Academy's oceanography department since 1988, teaching a wide range of courses including his research interests of geology and computer mapping. He has served on the promotion and tenure committee, chaired the faculty senate curriculum committee, and is in the second year as president of the faculty senate. In 2018 he was a Fulbright Scholar in Morocco.