• Geology
• Oceanography
• Environmental Geology

• World Geology Colloquium
• Hawaii Geology Colloquium
• Geology Independent Studies

• August 18, 2000 to January 16, 2001
• Development and creation of course materials, presentations and demonstrations
  • Creation, development and maintenance of a Geology Web Site
  • Author of 5 course outline, instruction and review student notebooks
  • Development and presentation of high quality, college-level courses in Geology, Oceanography, and Environmental Geology.
  • Development and implementation of proper, high-quality, college level materials and laboratories for Physical Geology.
  • Oceanography Laboratory curricula, experiments and exercises
  • Field Trips
    • Hayward Fault Field Trip
    • Sunol Park Franciscan Geology Field Trip
    • Mount Diablo Field Trip
    • Marin Headlands/Point Reyes Field Trip
    • Sunol Park Geology Majors Field Trip
• Work for the College; the LPC Geology Program, Collegial Activities, etc.
  (note: of the many things that I have learned about the college environment is that there is no lower or middle management - such as one normally finds in a large business.  As a result, the professors, instructors, and teachers must deal with and handle much administration and management.)
  • Management, development and oversight of the LPC Geology Program
    • Introduction of new geology courses for LPC: Environmental Geology, Historical Geology 1B,  World Geology and Hawaii Geology.
    • Mentor
    • Supervise technicians, student assistants and volunteers
    • Manage and interface with adjunct part-time geology faculty
    • Manage and oversee the geology budget and the purchase of the proper materials and supplies for the geology program.
    • Hiring and evaluation of geology adjunct faculty, lab technicians and student assistants.
    • Oversight and creation of LPC Geology Collection and Displays
  • Committees and Other College Activities
• Continuing Education
  • Scuba courses and experience
  • Computer and other Pedagogical Technologies
  • Field Trips
  • World Geology Research

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• Management, development and oversight of the LPC Geology Program. 
  • Establishment and introduction of Environmental Geology for LPC
  • Introduction of Historical Geology into the active LPC Geology Program.
  • Introduction and presentation of World Geology, Hawaiian Geology and General Geology Colloquiums for LPC.
  • Mentoring students interested in pursuing careers in (either or both) Geology, Oceanography, Geosciences, Natural, Physical or Earth Sciences and/or Teaching and Education.
  • Establishment and implementation of reference materials, instructions and write-ups for Geology Laboratories -- for the use and reference of full-time and adjunct geology faculty.
  • Interfacing with adjunct Geology Faculty.  
  • Supervision of Geology technician, both geology and computer student assistants, and student volunteers.
  • Hiring and evaluation of geology adjunct faculty, lab technicians and student assistants.  Participate in all committees for hiring of these employees for the geology program.  Submit formal evaluations; periodically for the geology lab technician, and as needed for the adjunct faculty and the student assistants.
  • Manage and oversee the geology budget and the purchase of the proper materials and supplies for the geology program.
  • Oversight and creation of the LPC Geology Collection and Displays
    Over the years, rock and mineral collections and specimens have been donated to the college - with the  construction of the Science Building, I established display cases for these materials.  Development, labeling of samples, etc. is an on-going project that has used the help of full-time faculty, adjunct faculty, lab technicians and several student volunteers.

• Development of presentations, quizzes and exams that incorporate PowerPoint, CD-ROMs, experiment demonstrations, slide shows, and in-class,on-line Internet, etc.  Development and creation of new course materials and presentations is done every week.
• Author of 5 course outline books that include lecture outlines, exam review questions and/or laboratory instructions.  Continual revision and updating of these materials occurs at least monthly.
• Became a certified scuba diver for the express purposes of classroom incorporation of diving physics into the Oceanography course.  Certifications now include Divemaster, Research Diver and Underwater Naturalist.  Places visited and explored now include the Blue Hole, Belize, the Cenotes of the Yucatan Peninsula and the islands of Palau in the western Pacific.  The geology of these features has been incorporated into my course materials and I have created web pages for my students for the geology of these sites.  
• Creation, development and implementation of college-level laboratory curricula for Introductory Oceanography. This is a tremendously challenging project - there are only 2 possible lab manuals available -- and neither are enough to support an Introductory Oceanography course.  Most introductory Oceanography labs require that the students have a working, applicable knowledge of algebra, chemistry and some physics.... however, none of these are prerequisites for this course and the students who take the course are primarily non-science majors who are hoping to bypass the above subjects during their college careers.... therefore, the development of appropriate labs that are still college-level and that cover the necessary subjects is a tremendously challenging on-going project.  Especially as this is a course which had no materials or equipment and no supply budget when I was hired 9 years ago.  Since that time, I have ordered Oceanography materials from within the Geology supply budget (I have requested additional funds each year... makes me very popular :)
• Development of in-class demonstrations (e.g.,  for Geo- and Electro- Magnetism, Crystal Growth, Refraction, etc.)
• Creation, development and maintenance of a Geology Web Site with over 100 inter-linked geology web pages.   This web site includes on-line practice quizzes created by the Prof.  Hanna for the use of her students.  To create and develop these web pages, Prof. Hanna learned and applied Adobe PageMill, MS FrontPage, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Adobe PhotoShop, Adobe PhotoDeluxe, scanning software, etc.  Of particular note, highlights of Prof. Hanna's web site include:
  • Course web pages, including course syllabi, review questions and practice quizzes, for Physical Geology, Oceanography, Environmental Geology, Physical Geology Laboratory, Oceanography Laboratory, World Geology Colloquium, Hawaiian Geology Colloquium, and Geology Independent Study.
  • Geology Major web pages with information about the Geology major and its requirements - with links to the web pages of 4-year colleges and universities' Geology Major web pages.
  •  Several web pages of hundreds of Geology WWW hyperlinks to geologic web sites.
  • A Geopuzzler Web Site
  • A web site of World Geologic Oddities and Highlights.
  • GeoPhoto Internet Quizzes
  • Marine Life Internet Quizzes
  • Plate Tectonics and Island Geology On-Line Quizzes
• Continuing Education:
  • Scuba Courses for Oceanography - up to and including the Divemaster and Technical Diver 1 Certifications in order to learn and master diving physics.
  • Underwater Marine Ecology - a semester evening course with several weekend field trips
  • Pedagogical Technology: including learning and applying PowerPoint, Excel, FrontPage, PageMill, Dreamweaver, Word, various Geological CD-ROMs and laserdiscs, etc.
  • Personal Field Trips to explore the geology and oceanography of:
    • Crater Lake
    • Mt. St. Helens - including a helicopter flight to the edge of the summit crater and plug
    • Lava Beds National Monument - explored 8 different lava tubes
      • Glass Mountain
    • Lassen Park
      • hike to top of Mt. Lassen (twice)
      • hike to top of cinder cone (twice)
      • hike to Bumpass Hell (twice)
      • explored Subway Cave lava tube (three times)
      • the Sulphur Works, Chaos Jumbles, the Devastated Area, etc.
    • Limestone Caves in California
      • Moaning Caverns - did the 160' rappel!
      • Mercer Caverns
      • California Caverns
    • Glacier National Park
    • Bryce Canyon and Zion National Parks
    • Grand Canyon National Park
      • both the North and South rims
      • been to the bottom and back (in a snowstorm)!
    • Alaska: Anchorage area; helicopter flight over and to a glacier + a glacier viewing cruise
    • Catalina and the Channel Islands of Southern California - scuba diving
    • The Blue Hole, Belize
    • the Islands of Palau
    • The Caribbean Islands of Bonaire and Cozumel
    • Yucatan Penninsula Cenotes: scuba diving in the underground rivers of the Yucatan Karst Limestone.
    • the Hawaiian Islands
      • Oahu: Diamond Head Crater hike + scuba diving.
      • Kauai: Na Pali cliffs hike + scuba diving.
      • Maui: Haleakela crater hike + scuba diving; Molokini
      • The Big Island of Hawaii:
        • Hike across Kilauea crater + Kilauea crater (twice)
        • Hike 2.5 miles across lava to see flowing, hot lava
        • Helicopter flight across Kilauea + lava entering sea
        • scuba diving along western coastline;
          |including a night-manta-ray dive

• World Geology Research:through professional journals and the Internet:
  • The Ikkaite Towers of Greenland
  • The Blue Hole, Belize
  • The Geology of the Islands of Palau
  • The Bungle Bungles of Australia
  • The Moeraki Boulders of Australia
  • Victoria Falls, Africa
  • Tanzania's Lake Natron
  • Oldoinyo Lengai, Tanzania
  • Stromatolites: Shark's Bay + Africa
  • Karst Topography: including the Tower Karst of Gui Lin, China and the Chocolate Hills, Phillipines and the karst topography of Arecibo, Puerto Rico, etc.
  • the geology of the Tepui, South America
  • Almannagja, Iceland
  • Hexagonal columnar basalt around the world
  • Global rift zones
  • the Ice Volcanoes of Lake Superior
  • etc., etc.
    

• Committees and College Activities:
  • College Cabinet
  • Safety Committee (for 4 years)
  • Accreditation Committee and Review Participation 
  • Science Building: creation and continued development (for 9 years)
  • College Calendar Committee
  • SGF (Student Group Feedback) facilitator
  • Earth Science and Environmental Science Scholarship Coordinator and Committee Chair
  • Title III Instructor's Web Core Group
  • LPC High School Senior Night Science Representative
  • Tenure evaluation committees for several instructors
  • Service on hiring committees for tenured instructor positions, adjunct faculty, part-time permanent staff positions, and student assistants.
  • Creations and submission of college grant proposals and rationales for college geology equipment, supplies, materials and support personnel.
  • presentations for
    • MECCA students
    • ROP high school students
    • LLNL Retired Engineers' Association

• Geology with an emphasis in Geophysics: Paleomagnetism. The thesis study was focused on the paleomagnetic record of Holocene lake sediments in the Pacific Northwest.
• Published 3 geophysics journal articles and gave 3 presentations at A.G.U. (American Geophysical Union) and other such conferences (one in Durham, England, one in Vancouver, British Columbia and one in San Francisco, CA).
• Courses taken included
  • the Upper Division Physics-majors, year-long sequence of Electricity and Magnetism,
  • and an Upper Division ECE (Electrical/Computer Engineering) Time-Series-Analysis Mathematics course (ECE 151 Digital Systems)
  • as well as graduate courses in Geomagnetism, Seismology, Environmental Geochemistry, etc.
• Seminar series coordinator, UC Davis, 6/87-6/88. Invited and scheduled speakers for the U.C. Davis Geology Seminar Series.
• Geophysics teaching assistant, UC. Davis, 1/87-4/88. Aided students with geophysics course in gravity and magnetics.

• Paleomagnetic lab technician, U.C. Davis, 6/84-12/85. Use of a Schondstedt spinner magnetometer and specimen demagnetizer, rock saw, drill press and computer.
• Geophysical survey as part of a summer field course, U.C. Davis, 8/85. Conducted gravity and magnetic surveys with a vertical-component Worden gravimeter, a Geometrics portable proton magnetometer and a Micro-Surveying Altimeter

• LD Physical Geology course with 
  3 hours lab/week (semester) 
  [6 hours lab/week (quarter)]
• LD Mineralogy course 
  with 6 hours/lab week
• LD Historical Geology course 
  with 3 hours/lab/week
• Mathematics
  • Engineering Calculus 
    w/Vector Analysis 
    1.5 years (3 semesters)
  • Differential Equations 
  • Linear Algebra 
  • UD Abstract Algebra
  • UD Advanced Calculus 
    for Scientists
• Physics
  • Engineering Physics: 
    1.5 years (3 semesters) w/lab
  • UD: Mathematical Methods for Physicists
• Chemistry 1A and 1B w/lab
• LD: Astronomy
• LD: Man and the Environment

A complete course listing
is included below

• UD Structural Geology with 6 hours/lab/week
• UD Tectonics with 6 hours lab/week
• UD Mineralogy and Petrology- separate courses in: - each with 6 hours/lab/week!
  • Optical Mineralogy
  • Igneous Petrology
  • Sedimentary Petrology
  • Metamorphic Petrology
• UD Sedimentology w/lab
• UD Stratigraphy w/lab
• UD Paleontology w/lab
• UD Spring Field Geology w/lab
• UD Summer Field Geology (10-12 hrs/day, 
  6 days/wk for 6 weeks)
• UD Geophysics: Gravity and Magnetism
• UD Geophysics: Seismology
• UD: Geological Applications for Computers
• UD: Solar System Geology

• Geology lab assistant, Hartnell College, Salinas, CA, 9/81-6/83. Aided students with general geology and rock and mineral identification.
• Tutor, Hartnell College, Salinas, CA, 9/81-1/83. Mathematics, geology, physics and astronomy.
• Courses taken included: chemistry, physics, calculus, geology, and lower division general education requrements. Many of these lower division courses were included in the B.S. course list above for continuity. A complete course listing is included below.

DIVE COURSES,
EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS

• The Pacific Hawaiian Islands:
  • Maui and Molokini
  • Lanai, 
  • Kauai, 
  • Oahu and 
  • the Big Island of Hawaii
    • Manta Ray Night Dive!!!!!
• The Western Pacific:  
  • PALAU!!!
  • FIJI
• The Atlantic Caribbean: the islands of 
  • Bonaire, 
  • Cozumel and 
  • Caicos; and 
  • freshwater cavern diving 
    in the Yucatan Peninsula
• California cold water kelp forests: 
  • Monterey, 
  • Carmel Bay, 
  • Mendocino County, 
  • and the Channel Islands 
    in Southern California

• Divemaster,
• Master Diver 
• RescueDiver 
• Advanced Open Water Diver 
• Open Water Div
• Specialties
  • Nitrox Diver
  • Night Diver
  • Research Diver
  • Underwater Naturalist
  • Dry Suit Diver
  • Dan O2

• Peaks and Summits
• Los Padres National Forest, CA
• Pinnacles National Park
• Magoo Peak
• Sierras
  • Desolation Wilderness: Tahoe
  • Half Dome
  • Other
• Lassen Volcanic Park
• Hawaii
• Colorado
• Canyonlands
• Joshua Trees, CA
• Trinity Alps, CA