Robert Tipping ’81 appointed Minnesota State Geologist and Director of Minnesota Geological Survey
Tipping majored in history at Carleton.
Robert “Bob” Tipping ’81 has been appointed the new Minnesota State Geologist and Director of the Minnesota Geological Survey (MGS). He is the tenth director since the MGS started in 1872 and the second Carleton alum to take the role — David Southwick ’58 was the eighth director.