Hi! Welcome to Geology goes Hollywood!
The class that teaches you the science behind the movies.
I'm Jenna
And I'm Jenni.
 
We'll be your instructors for this semester.
 
We'll be answering any question you have and giving you feedback
for your work throughout the semester.
We'd also like to tell you that the course was designed by a whole team
team of experts here at the CSUN Geology department.
Now I'm going to let you talk to the lead course designer, Prof. d'Alessio.
Without further ado: Lights, Camera, ACTION!!
Hi I'm Dr. Matthew d'Alessio.
I'm a geology professor here at CSUN and I'm going to be one of your digital guides for Geology 107 this semester.
So when you think about geology, do you think
a view like this? Well, with it's layer on top of 
layer of rock carved out by the Colorado
River,
The Grand Canyon is definitely a great poster for
us.
But when I think about Geology, I think
of a view more like this...  CSUN! Let me tell
you what I mean.
I like to think about how some of the
rocks beneath our feet came out of
volcanoes millions or even
billions of years ago. I think about what
this area must've looked like when
dinosaurs roamed around. I think about
why they died off. And how things have changed
since then since continents shifted because
of the movement the plates.
I think about how active faults like
these
have shaped our part at the plate,
pushing the mountains up and
dropping our valley down. I think about
how the faults that run directly beneath
our campus
have caused it to shake so violently that
there has been
death and destruction twice already in
my own life.
And how I know it will happen again
in the not too distant future.
I think about how dry this area is,
and how we need pipelines to carry in water
hundreds of miles across mountains to
support all the people that live here.
And I think about how brown our
landscape would look without those pipes and
without that water.
I think about how so many of our
students ride to campus by car,
and how just over the hills in Porter
Ranch and Santa Clarita
oil and gas wells are pumping crude oil
out of the ground
this moment that, by next week,
they will be putting into their cars as
gas and using in their homes
to heat them, and to keep the lights on
next winter. Geology is about the
processes that shape the world around us.
it's not just about the rocks. It's about
how the rocks
interact with people. Geology is everywhere!
And that's one of the reasons why
Hollywood loves geology. The interaction
between
Earth and people produces more disasters
and calamities than you can find in any
other field of science
after all how many chemistry disaster
movies have you seen recently?!?!
Sometimes the movie makers portraye
Earth
accurately and sometimes they don't. 
That's why we are so excited to bring
this course to you.
So thanks for signing up and we look
forward to meeting you,
at least online. So join me and the
other members of the Department of 
Geological Sciences here at CSUN as
we figure out
what happens when Geology goes Hollywood!
