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From left, Alex Jimenez, Francisco Guzman, Dylan Otte and Melissa Guajardo feast their eyes upon the terrifyingly accurate Tyrannosaurus rex on March 10, 2021, at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. Otte is a naturalist at the museum and has been working there since 2018, and was giving her friends a private tour around the exhibit while relaying plenty of information and anecdotes throughout.

Dinosaurs make a roaring return to the Museum of Natural History

Alexandra Rubalcaba Ruther, Staff Writer
March 12, 2021
Courtesy image from Stephanie Mendes

Rock and role-playing: new virtual game engages geology students

Alvaro Abrego Trancozo, Staff Writer
September 14, 2020
Eiko Kitao, City Colleges geology department’s lab technician dusts off a mastodon scapula in the Core of the Earth and Biological Sciences Building on Feb. 27, at City College in Santa Barbara, Calif. The Pelvis bone was found up the coast in Point Sal near the City of Guadalupe, Calif.

Lab technician finds direction, becomes ‘mother’ of SBCC geology

Kai Zheng, Opinion Editor
March 2, 2020
Jenna Rolle stands with fossil casts in EBS 115 where she teaches ERTH-122, also known as “Dinosaurs” on Wednesday, Feb. 12, at City College in Santa Barbara, Calif. Rolle has traveled to China and across the United States studying fossils.

SBCC geology instructor follows her passion of science everyday

Kai Zheng, Opinion Editor
February 14, 2020
Geologist and administrative assistant Elizabeth O’Black Gans outside the Earth & Biological Sciences building Thursday, Oct. 19, at City College. “I got interested in Geology because I took an introductory Geology class and just loved understanding more about the world that I live in and the earth science that surrounds us.”

SBCC’s Elizabeth Gans receives award for best guidebook

GILLIAN BALDWIN, Associate Editor
October 20, 2017
Stephanie Mendes, new full-time earth and planetary sciences instructor, stands next to rock samples Tuesday, Sept. 19 at the Earth and Biological Sciences Building in City College. Mendes received her doctorate in Marine Biology and Geochemistry at UCSB in 2014 and now teaches oceanography and historical geology.

SBCC’s hired new full-time earth and planetary sciences instructor

MAXTON SCHULTE, Channels Staff
September 29, 2017
The ‘Woolly’ gets loaded for its weeklong City College trip to Death Valley on Tuesday, April 12, outside the Biology and Earth Science Building, where it is normally parked, at Santa Barbara City College. The ‘Woolly’ is a one of a kind truck that is equipped with an oven, a large walk in freezer and generators to be able to take students on long trips and supply them with everything they might need.

‘Woolly Mammoth’ provides essentials for geology students

TAYLOR WILLIAMS, Features Editor
April 22, 2016
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