Out There

Samples of CWU Geology Field Work, Research and Outreach

In addition to teaching classes, CWU Geology faculty maintain research and outreach programs that include field work, mentoring undergraduate and graduate students, providing training for Washington state K-12 science teachers and various other programs.

Below are some current and recent efforts that have been highlighted on our home page. For more information about the research and outreach of our faculty, you can browse the faculty and staff pages.

• CWU Geological Sciences Hits the Beach in Chile: During spring quarter, 2009 Dr. Lisa Ely and graduate student Caitlin Orem traveled to Chile on a National Geographic Society Research Grant to study the geologic and historic evidence of tsunamis.

• Teachers on the Leading Edge:
  Funded by NSF's EarthScope project and co-directed by CWU's Dr Beth Pratt-Sitaula, this program teaches middle school Earth science teachers about the Pacific Northwest's active tectonics and geologic hazards.

• POLENET in Antarctica:
  The Polar Earth Observing Network is a consortium involving people from 28 nations that aims to dramatically improve the coverage of many different kinds of geophysical data across the polar regions of the Earth. CWU's Drs. Audrey Huerta and Paul Winberry participated in the 2008/2009 field season in Antarctica.

• WATERS in Nepal - Summer 2008:
  In August 2008 seventeen people participated in an interdisciplinary watershed science program in Nepal that is an international extension to CWU's WATERS Program (Watershed Science To Enhance Research in Schools; see also http://www.cwu.edu/~waters).