I love conducting fieldwork with students....especially when I am able to be outside in beautiful places like this.   So Pretty!

I'm lucky to have such good students that I don't have to do much work.  

More of my students are presenting their thesis research at the College of Science Symposium.

Though, I dont really like the title of the article, it was a nice interview.   Press the picture for a link to the article.  Good times!

I gave a short presentation on the potential environmental impacts from hydraulic fracturing/gas production for a California State Assembly meeting in Los Angeles.

Im speaking at the National Academy of Sciences Distinctive Voices Lecture Series.  So nervous.

Students presenting their research at the Geological Society of America National Meetings.   They did a great job!

Spent the past week or so trying to sample flood waters in the oil/gas areas.   The Flood was quite large (500 year flood may be?) that resulted from lots of rain and mountain fires from earlier in the spring.   Here is a link to a Daily Beast article that I interviewe...

Sampling accessible and safe floodwaters has been challenging, but we got some good samples.

They were doing a story on California's oil/gas industry and wanted to talk to me about environmental concerns.   It was fun.