“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”

-Benjamin Franklin

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...

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...

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.