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

Alvaro Abrego Trancozo, Staff Writer
September 14, 2020
Lydia Kaestner brushes at the mass of fossils found by City College alumni, staff and students Christopher Ryan, Anna Hilliard, Melissa Mauas, Lydia Kaestner, Riley Vance-Gydesen, and Eiko Kitao on Saturday Feb.29, 2020, at Vandenberg Air Force Base in Santa Barbara County, Calif. Kaestner is one of the five people who were on-site when it was found.

City College breaks ground with monumental fossil discoveries

Kai Zheng, Opinion Editor
March 9, 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
Aquivo Lowen-Diaz, geology and other sciences tutor, holds a thin slate of rock up to a polarized light to reveal the colors associated with the rock minerals on Wednesday, Nov. 9, in the rock shop at City College. Lowen-Diaz is a former City College geology student and is now a tutor and teacher’s assistant for the department.

Former pianist becomes rockstar of SBCC geology department

SEBASTIAN HERICS, Channels Staff
November 11, 2016
Lanterns light up the camping area for dinner as students look up at the stars on Friday, Sept. 30, in the Cuyama Badlands, north of Ojai. Geology club members and instructors spent one night exploring the badlands to collect rock samples and fossils.

SBCC students spend a night studying history at the Badlands

SEBASTIAN HERICS, Channels Staff
October 8, 2016
Faculty members (from left) Kevin McNichol, Robert Gray, Jeff Meyer, Bill Dinklage and Eiko Kitao stand with the award bestowed upon the City College Geology department.

SBCC geology field course earns $10,000 ExxonMobil award

SEBASTIAN HERICS, Channels Staff
September 16, 2016
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

SBCC boat trip gives students chance to explore local oil seeps

TAYLOR WILLIAMS and MICHAEL BUESCH
April 11, 2016

SBCC to host 3-day workshop-filled geoscience conference

LORENZO MORAN , Channels Staff
March 26, 2016
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