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Dan BEHNKE
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Dan Behnke is retired and lives with his wife, Esther, in Northbrook, Illinois. He has been collecting and photographing microminerals for over 30 years. His collection numbers over 14,000 specimens representing in excess of 750 species from localities throughout the world. The photographs in his collection are used to illustrated lectures on microminerals to a variety of groups throughout the United States and Canada.
His photographs are also used to illustrate articles appearing in periodicals such as the Mineralogical Record, Rocks and Minerals, as well as Mineralien Welt and Lapis (both in German). A number of his photos also appeared in the second edition (1990) of “The Encyclopedia of Minerals” published by Van Nostrand Reinhold; in “The Handbook of Microminerals” published in 1993 by the Mineralogical Record; in the third edition of “The Mineralogy of Arizona” published by the University of Arizona Press; and in the 1997 edition of “The Minerals of Colorado” published by the Colorado Chapter of the Friends of Mineralogy.
Dan is the author of “Copper Country Microminerals”, an illustrated article on the minerals of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan which appeared in the July, 1983 issue of the Mineralogical Record. He also authored “Photomacrography of Microminerals” which appeared in the November, 1991 issue of the same periodical.
Dan is an Associate Photographer of both the Mineralogical Record and Rock and Minerals magazines. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Friends of Mineralogy from 1990 to 1993. He served as the Micromount chairman of the Midwest Federation of Mineralogical Societies from 1981 to 1988 and has served several terms as chairman of the micromount study group the Earth Science Club of Northern Illinois (ESCONI).
He has been a guest lecturer on photomacrography at Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois and has contributed over 3,000 images to a forthcoming DVD on minerals to be published by the Los Angeles (CA) County Museum.
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Dan and Esther BEHNKE
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