Ronald Corey earned degrees at Eastern Michigan and the University of Michigan. His field work for an advanced degree was done in the Sangre de Christo Mountains of Colorado. He also worked as a geologist in Minnesota for the Oliver Mining Division of the U.S. Steel Corporation and taught mineralogy at the University of Michigan. Professor Corey began his teaching career at Baldwin-Wallace College in 1961. During the period of 1970 to 1982 he spent summers teaching geology for Baldwin-Wallace College in the Rocky Mountain Field Studies Program in Wyoming and Montana. He has visited and studied the geology of a number of national parks in the coterminous United States, as well as Alaska and Hawaii. His teaching interests are in physical geology, mineralogy, petrology, geology of national parks, and planetary geology.
