Geological Sciences Department Highlights

Geological Sciences Alumni night at Florentine's Grill

Alumni signing in at the event

             Geological Sciences Alumni and guests signing up at the registration table. 
 
 

Gentleman announcing the raffle winner

                                                                                                                                                                                              Raffle time during Alumni Night! 

 

 

Geology Field Camp at Owens Valley

Students from Geology class pose for class photo during field camp                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                              Geology students from Geology 481A at Owens Valley for Summer Field Camp. 
 
Geology students cooking at field camp
                                                                                                                                                                         
                          Geology students cooking at field camp.

 

 

presentations

Two graduate students presented their work at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Meetings in Albuquerque, New Mexico (Oct 17th-21st):

  • Katrina Awalt gave a poster presentation about a bizarre and extinct group of marine mammals from Orange County entitled, "Desmostylians from the "Topanga” Formation of Orange County, California, with comments on tooth ontogeny of paleoparadoxiids"
  • Jacob Biewer gave an oral presentation about fossil walruses entitled "A reassessment of variation in dental and mandibular characters of basal odobenids"

 

publications

Photo of Titanotaria swimming with fish

  • Dr. James Parham, Isaac Magallanes (a n undergraduate student), and Gabe Santos ( a graduate student) published a study on a fossil walrus from Orange County, and named it "Titanotaria orangensis". The name "Titanotaria" honors the Cal State Fullerton Titans. Read the news article here: "Extinct Tuskless Walrus Fossil Discovered in Orange County"