Hi, I’m Doug MacDougall, I’m an emeritus professor of earth
sciences at the scripps institution of 
oceanography
at UCSD.
And this summer one of my uc davis
Colleagues, Peter Schiffman
and I are going to lead an UCEAP summer course 
called a journey through time.
This course is going to explore how our
planet actually works
from earthquakes to volcanos to
climate change.
We're also going to focus are the
contributions of a number of British
scientists
who have helped to develop our understanding
of how the planet
functions.
We're going to do this by
living in two of the cities
where many of these scientists lived and
worked.
In spite of the fact that Peter and I dearly love the University of California
we can guarantee
that it's going to be a lot more fun
learning about these things in this way
than it would be if you were
actually just sitting in a classroom
in California
