Each summer geologist Jeff Mount and fisheries biologist Peter Moyle take UC Davis students into the Alaskan wilderness to study watersheds in the natural environment. Download video clip 1:45 minutes (view with RealOne Player plug-in. Look in the upper right corner of the site to link to the free software.) Summer Session 2004: GEL 138 Introduction to Volcanology in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park with UCD Geology's Peter Schiffman and Rob Zierenberg. Study: Dinos Didn't Butt Heads - Mark Goodwin (UCD Geology/UC Berkeley Museum of Paleontology) and John Horner (Museum of the Rockies). More information. UC Study Sheds New Light on Climate-Change Processes - Authors: Matthew Schmidt, Howie Spero (UCD Geology) and David Lea (UCSB) Geerat Vermeij receives the 2004 Faculty Research Lecturer Award by the UC Davis Academic Senate. This award honors excellence in research. W.M Keck Center for Active Visualization in the Earth Sciences: UCD Geology receives $1 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation. Jeff Mount (Geology) and Peter Moyle's (Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology) undergraduate course proposal has been awarded the Presidential Chair. National Academies' National Research Council releases report on Threatened and Endangered Fishes in the Klamath Basin. Jeff Mount, NRC committee member. "A Conversation with John McPhee" - Pulitzer-prize winning writer, John McPhee, and UCD geologist and plate tectonicist, Eldridge Moores, discuss their collaboration on the award-winning book Assembling California. UCTV broadcast 2/9/04 at 12 pm; 2/12 at 7&10 pm; 2/13 at 11 am. See calendar for local channels. News article: "McPhee, Moores talk rocks". Download video 1:18 hours (view with RealOne Player plug-in. Look in the upper right corner of the site to link to the free software.) Dawn Sumner is selected as a 2003-2004 Chancellor's Fellow. This award is designed to honor the achievements of outstanding faculty members early in their careers. Five new faculty join the UC Davis Geology department. Jim McClain is awarded the 2003 Distinguished Teaching Award. Eldridge Moores receives the UC Davis Distinguished Scholarly Public Service Award for 2003. Isabel Montañez and Howie Spero are elected GSA Fellows. Don Turcotte is the 2003 recipient of the American Geophysical Union's William Bowie Award.
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