Furlough Day Calendar and Office Closures
Due to state budget reductions, the Geological Sciences Department office will be closed periodically throughout the semester. Download a calendar of furlough closures. For more information visit the University web site.
Next office closure date is November 20, 2009.
Campus closed November 23, 2009 through November 27, 2009.
New Area Code (657) for campus. The CSUF campus has a new area code (657) specific to the campus. Read more at the California Public Utilities
Fall 2009 Semester Geological Sciences Courses
Dr. Brandon Browne received a $150,000 grant from the U.S. Geological Survey Volcano Hazards Program to investigate the role of magma mixing as a potential trigger for the 2006 eruption of Augustine Volcano, Alaska. The grant will support one M.S. thesis student for two years as well as two weeks of field work on Augustine Volcano during summer 2010 with two B.S. students and potentially a MAT-S student emphasizing in earth science.
Dr. Brandon Browne and colleagues from the Alaska Volcano Observatory, U.S. Geological Survey and Moscow State University (Russia) published a paper in the journal International Geology Review. The title of the publication was "Pre-eruptive storage conditions of the Holocene dacite erupted from Kizimen Volcano, Kamchatka".
Dr. Matt Kirby and Dr. Brady Rhodes were awarded a $20,000 grant from the National Geographic Society. It’s title is: Precursors to the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami: Investigation of a Paleotsunami Stratigraphic Record within Holocene sediments of Pra Thong Island, southern Thailand. The grant will fund about 5-6 weeks of field work in southern Thailand this winter and will include 1-3 CSUF students as participants. This research is a collaboration with scientists from Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok and will study the geologic record of precursors to the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami. The goal of the research is to delineate a history of prehistoric tsunamis because understanding their recurrence will place constraints on the Andaman subduction - the source of the earthquake that generated the 2004 tsunami.
The American Chemical Society-Petroleum Research Fund awarded Dr. Diane Clemens-Knott a 3-year, $65,000 grant for her proposal entitled "Age and Provenance of Clastic Sediments from the Non-marine Goldstein Peak Unit: Stratigraphic Relations to Marine Sediments of the Jurassic(?)-Cretaceous Great Valley Forearc Basin and the Jura-Triassic Kings Sequence, Central California.” The grant will fund on-going field work in the Sierra Nevada foothills, as well as research at the University of Arizona and the California Institute of Technology by C.S.U.F. graduate and undergraduate students. The project will support an environmental reconstruction of the time period when California first emerged as dry land, and provide information regarding the sources of sediments in California’s oil-rich Great Valley.
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Graduate student Arron Steiner was honored with an Outstanding Student Presentation Award for his poster at the 2008 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting entitled “Mafic inputs to the Augustine magma system over the past 2,200 years”. Arron’s poster described results of his ongoing research with his advisor Dr. Brandon Browne that focuses on understanding how magmas that have been erupted from Augustine volcano (Alaska) over the past 2,200 years formed. Read abstract here.
Department Seminar
"Teaching Geology On-Line: Experiences from GEOL310T, Geological Hazards of California"
Dr. Brady Rhodes, C.S.U.F. Geology
December 2, 2009, 4:30 P.M.
McCarthy Hall 341
Seminar Series Contact: Dr. Tara Kneeshaw (657) 278-5660 or E-mail: tkneeshaw@fullerton.edu
Department of Geological Sciences
California State University, Fullerton
P.O. Box 6850
Fullerton, CA 92834-6850
Phone:(657) 278-3882
FAX: (657) 278-7266
Dr. David Bowman, Department Chair
dbowman@fullerton.edu