He is the author of a book on monitor lizards and of many papers and articles on wild and captive reptiles. National park Drive. For University credit course, click here . Through an extended field trip in Joshua Tree National Park, students focus on the major geologic features that define the landscape while illustrating broader geological phenomena. Topics include erosion, weathering, igneous activity, metamorphism, and the place of the Joshua Tree region within the context of the large-scale geologic framework of Southern California.
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He has extensive field research experience in Alaska and California and served as adjunct faculty for several years at University of Southern California, where he taught field ecology. He is one of several geologists appearing in the PBS telecourse series The Earth Revealed. He has been active in the National Association of Geoscience Teachers for 30 years, serving as chair for the Far Western Section and an officer at the national level. He is a recipient of the Association's Robert Wallace Webb Award. National park Drive.