The Department of Geological Sciences is strongly committed to excellence in education. Our faculty members are winners of numerous University and national awards for excellence in teaching. Here are some of our award winning teachers!

	Bernstein Distinguished Lectureship, Carleton College, Minnesota, 1995
	Moon Distinguished Lectureship, San Angelo State College, Texas, 1985
	Encourage Award, Assoc. of Women Geoscientists, 1984
	Courses taught
	GS 2 Principles of Geology
	GS 18 Field Studies in Geological Sciences
	GS 157/235 Plate Tectonics

	Crosby Distinguished Lectureship, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993-94

 

	The Faculty Research Lecturer, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2001.
	Distinguished Lecturer, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, 2001
	The 2000 Cesare Emiliani Lecturer: American Geophysical Union.
	Distinguished Lecturer, JOI/USSAC, 1992-93.
	The Distinguished Lecturer in Marine Sciences, University of South Carolina, 1982.
	Undergraduate Courses Taught
	10 Antarctica
	161 Marine Stratigraphy
	162 Marine Micropaleontology
	164C Earth System history
	Graduate Courses Taught
	261 Marine Stratigraphy
	262 Marine Micropaleontology
	270 Paleoceanography Seminar
	276 Geological Oceanography

 

	UCSB Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award in Mathematical, Life & Physical Sciences 1999-2000
	Undergraduate Courses Taught
	GS 4 Introduction to Oceanography
	GS 124 Aqueous Geochemistry
	GS 164B Earth-System Ocean Atmosphere
	GS182/282 Field Studies
	GS 198 Readings in the Geological Sciences
	Graduate Courses Taught
	GS 266 Chemical Oceanography *
	GS 167/267 Climates of the Past
	GS 270 Seminar in Geologic Problems

* This course has an admirable alumni list, including Jess Adkins (Faculty member, Caltech), Ben Flower (Faculty member, USF), Frank Corsetti (Faculty member, USC), Christina de la Rocha (Faculty member, Cambridge University), and Ingrid Hendy (Faculty member, University of Michigan)

 

	Outstanding Faculty Member, 1997-98, Residence Hall Association and Office of Residential Life
	UCSB Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award in Mathematical, Life & Physical Sciences 1996-97
	Presidents Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research Mentoring, University of California, 1994
	AAPG, Pacific Section, Distinguished Teaching Award 1994
	Distinguished Lecturer, 1982-83, American Association of Petroleum Geologists
	Undergraduate Courses Taught
	GS 2 Principles of Geology
	GS 18 Field Studies in Geological Sciences
	GS 103 Fundamentals of Structural Geology
	GS 104A Field Studies in Geological Methods
	GS 104B Field Methods
	GS 109 Geology of California
	GS 118 Summer Field Geology
	GS 188 Field Studies in Neotectonics
	Graduate Courses Taught
	GS 249 Seminar in Structure and Tectonics
	GS 288 Seminar in Neotectonics

 

	UCSB Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award in Mathematical, Life & Physical Sciences 1997-98
	Distinguished Teaching Award, Yale University, 1990
	Undergraduate Courses Taught
	Geol 30 The History of Life
	Geol 111 Principles of Paleontology
	Geol 120 Field Paleobiology
	Geol 141 Plant Paleobiology
	Geol 189 Advanced Studies in Paleobiology
	Graduate Courses Taught
	Geol 210 Paleoecology
	Geol 241 Plant Paleobiology

 

 

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