Geological Sciences Department Highlights
Geological Sciences Alumni night at Florentine's Grill
Geological Sciences Alumni and guests signing up at the registration table.
Raffle time during Alumni Night!
Geology Field Camp at Owens Valley
Geology students from Geology 481A at Owens Valley for Summer 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
- 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"