The man behind the Tusk
About George Howard
George Howard is an environmental entrepreneur, independent researcher, and founder of the Cosmic Tusk. His fascination with Carolina bays in the 1990s led to decades of investigating cosmic catastrophes and their possible influence on the human past.
His 1997 Carolina bay essay brought him into contact with researchers Richard Firestone and William Topping. George later coauthored the foundational 2007 PNAS paper proposing evidence for the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis. He co-founded the Comet Research Group in 2015 and remains an outspoken advocate for investigating the evidence.
Following college at UNC and six years as a legislative aide in the United States Senate, George founded Restoration Systems in 1998. The Raleigh-based environmental mitigation company restored wetlands and streams before its sale in 2022. His professional work and prehistoric interests often met on the same landscape.
George launched the Cosmic Tusk in 2010 and founded Cosmic Tusk Productions in 2022. Through Cosmic Summit, the podcast, The Bib, and resources such as Michael Davias’s LiDAR atlas, he brings researchers and curious humans into the same conversation.
He is, by his own admission, nerdy, overly enthusiastic, and opinionated—with a persistent interest in things we may have overlooked.
George is available for podcasts, video interviews, documentaries, livestreams, speaking engagements, and other creators’ content. He welcomes good questions and informed disagreement.