Dr. Anne E. Egger Professor Geological Sciences and Science and Mathematics Education phone: 509-963-2870 office: Discovery Hall Room 337 Anne.Egger@cwu.edu Executive Director National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT) Senior Editor Visionlearning My work Download CV (PDF) ResearchGate profile Google Scholar profile SERC profile page Amazon page

Research

Geoscience education

My work in geoscience education research includes developing and testing new curricular materials for use in undergraduate teaching, analysis of national trends in faculty teaching practices through surveys and syllabi, the use of analogies, and alignment of standards with assessments. See:

• Teaching with Investigation and Design in Science (TIDeS)
• InTeGrate
• National Geoscience Faculty Survey
• Visionlearning

Active tectonics

I am interested in combining field observations with geochronological and geophysical data to learn more about active tectonic environments. I use tools such as geologic mapping, lidar (light detection and ranging), radiocarbon geochronology, gravity and magnetic mapping and modeling, and paleoseismic trenching to decipher the faulting history and current structural setting of a region, primarily the Basin and Range.

Current and former MS students

• Elizabeth Curtiss (2020), Documenting the earthquake history of the Thousand Springs fault in Summer Lake basin, Oregon, USA
• Jennifer Hall (2017), Surface Offset and Slip Rates for the Winter Rim Fault System in the Summer Lake Basin, Oregon
• Brian Marion (2016), Correlations between earthquake recurrence and paleolake changes in Surprise Valley, CA
• Brent Ritzinger (2014), Paleomagnetic mapping of late Miocene-Pliocene basalt flows in the northwestern Basin and Range: determining structural and topographic controls on the distribution of volcanic activity
• Diana Strickley (2014), Controls on fault geometry during early stages of extension in the Larkspur Hills, northwest Basin and Range
• Eliya Hogan (2014), Structural deformation across the southwest Mina Deflection, California-Nevada: field studies in the Huntoon Springs region.
• Molly Partridge (2013), Volcano-tectonic history of the northern Warner Range, northeastern California

Teaching

I teach courses in both Geological Sciences (GEOL) and Science Education (SCED).

Current courses

• SCED 102 - Earth Science Inquiry
• SCED 411/511 - Field Experience Communicating Science to the Public
• STP 309 - Research Methods
• GEOL 210 - Introduction to Geological Field Methods (with Breanyn MacInnes)
• GEOL 360 - Structural Geology
• GEOL 596 - ArcGIS for Geoscientists

Public outreach

• Re-envisioning teacher preparation, an op-ed I wrote for the Ellensburg Daily Record, Oct. 3, 2015
• See an article about me in Central Connections, Winter 2013 issue

Blog posts from our 2012 work in Surprise Valley

• Mapping Underground Faults and Fractures in Surprise Valley
• Smoothing out the kinks
• A Valley of Surprises
• Down and dirty in the field
• Paleomagnetism and problem solving

I also gave a public talk sponsored by the Surprise Valley Rotary Club. You can download a PDF of my slides and my geologic map of the valley and surrounding region by clicking the links below:

• Download geologic map (PDF)
• Download slides (PDF)