Career Seminar A Career in Geotechnical Consulting & Engineering Geology Monte Murbach Alumni SDSU Geological Sciences Monte Murbach is a Principal Engineering Geologist and co-owner of Murbach Geotech, located in San Diego, CA. He is registered as an Engineering Geologist in California, Oregon and Washington. Mr. Murbach earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Geology from Eastern Washington University in 1982 and a Master’s in Geology (emphasis on earthquakes) from SDSU in 2000....

Career Seminar From the Oil Patch to the Classroom John Turbeville Alumni SDSU Geological Sciences Mr. John Turbeville has been a Professor of Geology and Oceanography at Mira Costa College for the past 16 years, and taught honors courses for 12 years. His undergraduate was completed at SDSU and graduate work at the University of New Orleans. Before working in academia, Mr. Turbeville worked for 14 years as a Petroleum Geologist/Geophysicist in the Rocky Mountains and the Gulf Coast...

Career Seminar Hydrogeology / Consulting Career Overview Greg Cranham Alumni SDSU Geological Sciences Greg Cranham is a California Certified Engineering Geologist with Hargis + Associates, Inc., a hydrogeology and engineering consulting firm based in San Diego. After earning a degree in Geology from SDSU, he has conducted geological work for corporate clients in southern and central California, Arizona and Nevada. He has been with H+A for over 21 years, working on contaminated...

This video shows a 320 mm diameter, 0.5 m long, steel tube being pushed into highly compressed MSW (waste) inside the 2 m diameter Pitsea compression cell in real time. The tube is being pushed by the upper platen of the cell. This formed part of an experiment to investigate the possibility of recovering undisturbed tube samples from MSW.

The 370 Ma Karamea Suite plutonic ‘flare-up’ event in New Zealand: the world’s hottest S-type? Rose Turnbull Associate Lecturer Geological Sciences University of Canterbury -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- High-precision U-Pb ID-TIMS geochronology from the voluminous (≥37,500km3) Devonian Karamea Suite in western New Zealand suggest that the entire suite of ‘S-type’ granites were emplaced within a ~2.1 Ma burst of...

Geologist John Goodge looks for clues about Antarctica's past in the two percent of the continent that is not covered in ice! The University of Minnesota, Duluth professor studies rocks that help provide evidence about how this desolate continent has formed and changed over time. He also hopes to get a better idea of what the Earth looked like long before the seven continents we have now. Goodge and his colleagues are supported by the U.S. Antarctic Program, which is managed by the National...