There was a culture of excellence at SBCC that continues to this day. Students emerge from the program with skills equivalent to 3rd and even 4th year baccalaureate scholars, including excellent field mapping and research skills. As far as I'm concerned, it's one of the flagship programs among community colleges in the American west.
With that background in mind, check out this job opening in the department. It's an incredible place to teach. We had a beach processes lab at the base of the hill, a fault scarp running through part of the campus, and some marvelous field exposures in the hills above campus. The facilities on campus are excellent. They run multi-day field studies courses in Death Valley and the Eastern Sierra Nevada, and summer courses across the western United States. They also have an extended field methods class that is conducted in the Mt. Pinos area and the Cuyama Badlands.
Although I haven't worked there in years, I know the department has continued their tradition of excellence. Information at https://jobs.sbcc.edu/postings/1785. The application deadline is February 6, 2017.
3 comments:
I got my start as a botanist at SBCC!--field botany with Al Flink, great memories. Also took historical geology which wasn't so memorable unfortunately. That was mid 70s.
I too had a class or two with Al Flink. Feild botany if I remember. WE all had our Munz, loupe, and drive to find something cool. Trips out to the flower fields of California and beyond. I was young, a sponge, and learned alot, super bitchen.
made my herberarium contribution with a few grasses, because nobody wanted to key them. New items, found recently, and added to the collection.
I was an SBCC student in 1987/1988, 1988/1989. I had Al for plant biology lab and absolutely loved the man. I hav ea deep appreciation for the skills I developed while studying in the streams of Rattlesnake and Mission Canyons, looking for the "king of the pond," belostomatids. What great memories. Mike Powers
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