Geotripper

News and views from the geologic realm

Showing posts with label geologic education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label geologic education. Show all posts
Friday, October 5, 2018

Seeing Volcanoes from the Inside Out: A Visit to Castle Crags State Park in California

›
We recently completed a rather awesome trip to study the volcanoes of California, most particularly those that are found in the northern p...
Saturday, February 27, 2016

Cartoons Come to Life: The Value of Field Studies at Red Rock Canyon

›
I spend a lot of time in classrooms drawing cartoons. Lots of them, diagrammatically representing folds, faults and stratigraphy, trying ...
1 comment:
Thursday, February 12, 2015

Why it's Nice to Teach in California: It's Field Season All Year!

›
I'm not sure when or why being in California became a "negative" thing. Sure, we have our urban areas and horrible traffic a...
2 comments:
Thursday, December 11, 2014

The Holidays Come Early at the Great Valley Museum: A Big Toothy Predator Arrives

›
So, I got a call the other day from Receiving..."You've got a giant crate that's been delivered. Where do you want it? And I ...
1 comment:
Thursday, February 20, 2014

Out of the Valley of Death: Home from the road

›
Dantes View at Death Valley National Park It's geology in the starkest terms. Death Valley is a place where the crust has been torn ...
1 comment:
›
Home
View web version

About Me

My photo
Garry Hayes
I am a teacher of geology at Modesto Junior College and former president of the National Association of Geoscience Teachers, Far Western Section. I have led field trips all over the western United States, and a few excursions overseas, but my homebase is the Sierra Nevada, the Great Valley, and the Coast Ranges of California.
View my complete profile
Powered by Blogger.