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name: Carey Cossaboom
about: Carey Cossaboom began his life in Rye, New York. His father worked in the textile business in New York City; his mother practiced law in Rye after becoming one of the earliest female graduates of the NYU Law School. In 1966, just before Carey became a teenager, his family moved to rural South Carolina and a community named Johnsonville, allowing his father to further his textile career away from the rat race of NYC. After several years in the Johnsonville school system, Carey spent his final three years of high school at the Christchurch School, an all-male boarding school on the Rappahannock River in Virginia. After high school, Carey went on to college at the Florida State University in Tallahassee, where he graduated with a bachelor’s de Carey Cossaboom began his life in Rye, New York. His father worked in the textile business in New York City; his mother practiced law in Rye after becoming one of the earliest female graduates of the NYU Law School. In 1966, just before Carey became a teenager, his family moved to rural South Carolina and a community named Johnsonville, allowing his father to further his textile career away from the rat race of NYC. After several years in the Johnsonville school system, Carey spent his final three years of high school at the Christchurch School, an all-male boarding school on the Rappahannock River in Virginia. After high school, Carey went on to college at the Florida State University in Tallahassee, where he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in geology. It was at FSU that Carey became convinced in the teachings of Christianity.Looking for landscapes with more rocks, Carey packed up all his belongings in his Chevy van (Bozo) and moved out west. He eventually landed in South Dakota for a year, working on a drill crew for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He met his wife-to-be, Peggy, at the Oahe Dam near Pierre, South Dakota. Wanting to be further west, he moved on to graduate school at the University of Montana in Missoula, graduating with a masters degree in economic geology in 1981. Upon receiving his MS, Carey went further west, and north, to Alaska. He was hired by Cominco Alaska to assist in the evaluation of the Red Dog prospect in the southwest Brooks Range. It was during the summer of 1981 that Cominco discovered the real potential of that huge ore deposit, now the Red Dog Mine. After several years with Cominco, Carey worked for a number of other mineral exploration/mining companies, to include Placer Dome, Alaska Earth Sciences, Westgold, and the Hecla Mining Company. His exploration work was primarily in Alaska, save for a short stint in Nevada. He worked a number of years, with several different companies, on the Donlin Creek prospect - a major lode gold deposit in southwest Alaska. During a particularly slow period in mineral exploration, Carey explored a career shift as a financial representative for New York Life in Anchorage. Another exploration slow down and the onset of children with his wife, Peggy, prompted Carey to alter his geologic focus to environmental geoscience. After some additional schooling at the Oklahoma State University, Carey began work with TERRASAT geological consultants in Anchorage, and finished the final 12 years of his geologic career back with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, this time at Elmendorf Air Force Base/JBER in Alaska. For the Corps, Carey managed environmental cleanups at former military sites (FUDS Program) throughout Alaska. Carey is now retired and living on the hillside in Anchorage with his wife Peggy, also retired after a long career with the U.S. Forest Service. He enjoys all sorts of outdoor activities to include skiing, snowmachineing, catarafting, and mountain biking. Indoors, as a practicing Christian, he enjoys heady theological discussion. Carey and Peggy have two children, Jared and Kayla, going to college out of state. ...more