1. San Bernardino Alliance
Geoscience Careers
Strategy 2: Support students across the transitions between educational institutions and between education and career
Alumni
Local Professional Societies Ge
University of California
Riverside
California State University
San Bernardino
Chaffey Community College
For these joint activities, we are focusing on high school students who have already expressed an interest in the geoscience, such as those who participate in the Earth Science or CERT clubs at Etiwanda high school.
Bernadette
Vargas (EHS)
Daniel Keck (EHS)
CERT Club
(Community Emergency Response Team)
Sally McGill
Earth Science Club
Etiwanda High School
Anna Foutz (CCC)

2. Multiage Field Trips Joint Field Trip to San Andreas Fault
Saturday, March 25, 2017, 8 am – 2 pm
25 high school students and their teachers
5 community college students and their professor
1 CSUSB master’s student
1 professional geology (CSUSB alumnus)
½ mile hike to fault from CSUSB
Drone demonstration
Lunch-time speakers on graduate school and on careers in geology
Discussion of local geoscience issues relevant to our communities
Tour of seismically retrofitted buildings at CSUSB
Photo taken by drone
Our first joint activity took place on a Saturday in March 2017.
A group of 25 students from Etiwanda High school and 5 students from Chaffey College came to CSUSB with their geoscience faculty mentors.
We took these students on a hike to the San Andreas fault and demonstrated the use of a drone for collecting aerial photography of faults and other geologic features. A CSUSB master’s student and a CSUSB alumnus who is now professional geologist were present and interacted with the students on one-on-one basis throughout the day. They each gave short talk over lunch, about graduate school and about careers in the geology.

3. Multi-levelResearch Teams Garlock fault paleoseismic trench
March 2018 (Spring break)
NSF-funded research project
M.S. thesis field work for Kyle Peña
Nine other CSUSB students hired as field assistants
three other M.S. students
six undergraduate geology majors
70% are from under-represented ethnic groups
Two Ph.D. students from USC
Three faculty collaborators (CSUSB, USC, University of Sheffield)
Development of relationships between undergraduate, M.S. and Ph.D. students, as well as faculty through shared work and meals
Social support and broadening of horizons for
2 new undergraduate transfer students
2 new M.S. students
Extended opportunities for all students to interact with peers who are farther along in their career preparation path and to ask questions about careers and career preparation
Opportunities for students to interact with professional geologists who visited the trench to review our findings

4. Service Learning
CSUSB undergraduate geology majors can earn service learning credit for leading or participating in geoscience outreach events for K-12 students
Hikes from CSUSB to the San Andreas fault
Presentations in classrooms
CSUSB students attending field trips led by high school teachers as “resident experts”
CSUSB undergraduate geology major Katie VonSydow (pictured here) has led several hikes to the San Andreas fault for K-12 groups this year and has given two presentations at a middle school.

5. Other Ideas Under Consideration
Joint visits to dinner meetings of local professional organizations
Joint service learning projects focused on local geoscience issues
Formation of an inter-institutional Faculty Learning Community (“Map Your Hazards” at Etiwanda High School (EHS), Chaffey Community College and CSUSB.
CSUSB Geology club up a booth at Etiwanda H.S. to provide information on geology programs and geoscience careers to EHS students
CSUSB M.S. student presentations onpaleoseismic research to the Etiwanda H.S. Geology club and Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) club
So far these have not happened yet, but we’ve been talking about them …