Get to Know MeDr. G. Kent Colbath,
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Get to Know MeDr. G. Kent Colbath,
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I have retired from Cerritos effective May 20, 2005. I'm going to leave this web site up for a while in case colleagues or former students can use any of this info.
Dr. Alan Jones has posted a couple of programs for studying earthquakes and volcanoes that are a free download from his web page. We will be using Seismic-Waves in class, which should bring to life some of the concepts discussed in chapter 6. Seismic-Eruptions plots earthquakes and volcanoes in a map view, and can be updated with new events. Click on the link below to take you to his home page:
Follow this link to UCSB Department of Geosciences Freeware Page, then click on the link to Plate Animation Movies Preview Page, then click on the tab labeled Downloads. These animations are at a variety of scales. The animation Southern California 20 Ma to Present illustrates the rotation of the block that forms the channel islands, which also triggered pressure-release melting throughout Southern California.
The Volcano World page on the Columbia River Basalts can be accessed by clicking here.
Click here for panoramic views of a variety of volcanoes.
Click here for an animation of the Banda Aceh tsunami, December 26, 2004.
Click here for amazing before and after pictures of parts of the coast of Sri Lanka and Indonesia affected by the tsunami
How Stuff Works has links to home videos taken by tourists of the tsunami hitting various beaches
Click here for a summary of wave dispersal and damage caused by the tsunami from The Guardian (note the British spelling!)
Click here to visit the Earth Science On-Line Tutorial Center
Find information about our award winning Teacher Trac Program
Click here for updates on the Mars Exploration Rover Missions. There definitely was liquid water on Mars flowing through the pores in the rocks!
I was on a sabbatical leave for the 1999-2000 academic year. Click here for a description of my sabbatical activities.
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Click here to see posted information related to the Revolutions in Science Seminar for the Spring 2000 semester.
Click here to have a look at the science fiction short story I submitted to Print, the Cerritos College On-Line Literary Magazine.
If you saw the recent Fox special on the supposed faking of the moon landings, have a look at what Dr. James Scotti (University of Arizona astronomer) has to say about them for a more skeptical viewpoint:
The Moon Landings Were Not Faked
Phil Plait has also dedicated a page on his Bad Astronomy web site to this issue:
Fox TV and the Apollo Moon Hoax
Click here for comments and suggestions about books and movies with science-related themes.
The American Geological Institute has two new publications out for teachers. EarthComm, Earth System Science in the Community is aimed at grades 9-12, while Investigating Earth Systems is for grades 5-8. For ordering information, visit It's About Time Publishing.
Click here to visit the home page for the Cerritos College Earth Science Department.
Click on the image to catch up
on the Arthrophycus project for the second and third graders of Valencia
Elementary School, Upland, CaliforniaLast update: 09/14/05
