A quick Google on "Dr. Morris Charles NASA" found that there is
a Dr. Morris E.K. Charles who has some publications with NASA, but they are all on things like "Technologies for the National Aero-Space Plane", not geology.
There is also a Charles S. Morris that has written
some stuff on comets. There also is a Charles S. Morris who has
published a paper on "Evaluation of the TOPEX/POSEIDON altimeter system over the Great Lakes" (something about measuring water levels).
The only other links I can find are from websites like
abovetopsecret.com on this silly statue (rehashing of the same story linked to by the OP).