Response to a survey of approximately 250 leading geophysicists worldwide, conducted by the American Institute of Physics (AIP) Center for History of Physics and the Committee on History of Geophysics of the American Geophysical Union in 1997. Recipients were asked to send copies of their curriculum vitae and a list of publications as Part One of the survey and were then asked to discuss their entry into science in general and geophysics specifically as a career; how their scientific achievements came about and major efforts they were involved in which did not achieve the hoped for results; changes from one discipline to another; funding sources; the role of other disciplines in their own research; their work as educators; and their involvement in geophysics-related institutions. Contents include Part One of Questionnaire, curriculum vitae and publications list, and lengthy answers to Part Two of Questionnaire with correspondence. Kisslinger recounts important events in his career, including: meeting emminent geophysicists Rev. James B. Macelwane, S.J. and J. Tuzo Wilson; technical training in the Navy in World War II; his interest in seismology, and faculty position at St. Louis University; and his move to University of Colorado directing the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences. He explains how his research on earthquake predictions originated in monitoring atomic testing for seismic effects during the 1960s and 1970s, and discusses his involvement in activities outside academia.