Faculty experts from the Earth and Environmental Sciences Department at California State University Fresno are available to discuss today’s events:
Dr. Stephen D. Lewis
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1982
Subjects taught include Global Tectonics, Geology of New Zealand, and Field Methods in New Zealand and Australia. His research has focused on the structural and tectonic development of continental margins, mostly in the circum-Pacific region. He has led oceanographic research expeditions to the Philippines, the South China margin, Taiwan, Alaska, southern Chile and to offshore California. He has served as Chief Scientist on a cruise of the International Ocean Drilling Program vessel JOIDES RESOLUTION to Southern Chile. He has served on science advisory committees for the MARGINS Program, the Ocean Drilling Program.
Dr. Lewis class from 11 a.m. to noon today, Oceans, Atmospheres and Climate Change (Geology 167 — upper division course), will discuss today’s tsunami warning and earthquake. He indicated media interested in capturing this discussion are welcome. Please contact Tom Uribes to arrange a time window and for location/parking. 559.246.1717.
B10: http://www.csufresno.edu/geology/Faculty&Staff/Lewis/Dr_Lewis.html
Dr. John Wakabayashi
Ph.D., University of California, Davis, 1989
Dr. Wakabayashi’s research spans many subdisciplines in geology including tectonic geomorphology, active tectonics/seismic hazards, structural geology, basement tectonics, and the relationship between metamorphism and tectonics.
BIO: http://www.csufresno.edu/geology/Faculty&Staff/Wakabayashi/John°/020Wakabayashi.html
Earth and Environmental Sciences Department: http://www.csufresno.edu/geology/
