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Welcome everybody. Thank you for coming to
the Stockton Geology open house.
I wanted to give you guys a brief overview
of what the what geologists do in general.
What the geology major is
and what kind of careers you can expect
to potentially get after graduating from Stockton
and also just a little bit of details about what
our program is in particular
and the advantages that we have
over a lot of their schools and things.
So I wanted to kind of go through a little
bit of an overview of what our program is.
What our faculty, who our faculty are
and what kind of things that we're going to do
because probably the biggest thing
that most of you don't realize is the fact that
geology is a very traditional science
but it's also one of the only sciences that is
not taught in most high schools across the country
particularly anywhere east of the Mississippi
So most people do not realize that geology
is a major that you can explore in college
and also just the importance that geologists
play in the broader perspective of society.
So that's kind of what we're gonna try
to touch base with today
to give you guys kind of a little bit better idea
about what geologists do.
So we're gonna go through a little bit
of a presentation that I have
and on the program first and then I can answer any
questions that people may have
as we go forward
and the other thing is you can
always contact me.
My name is Rocky Severs.
My official name is Matthew. I've
had the nickname Rocky since I was a child,
long before I ever became a
geologist so I guess it was just luck
that I ended up in this field.
So you can always feel free to contact me if you
ever have any questions through my email
at Matthew.Severs@stockton.edu
So we're gonna go through the couple
of aspects of the program here.
I will be happy to answer any questions that you
may have later on down the line.
So these are just a couple of pictures.
They give you kind of a good idea of the
importance that our program places on fieldwork.
On the top left picture is a picture
that I took about eight years ago with
two of my former students.
When we were out at Mount St. Helens.
Out in Washington State.
Which is home of the famous 1980 volcanic eruption
and we were out there doing field work
and you can see that I had both of the two of them.
Both of them went on to very have very successful careers.
Currently one is in Nevada and
the other one is here in New Jersey.
The bottom right picture shows the mineralogy class.
Where we were up in the Adirondacks
for an extended weekend field trip.
To talk about the various minerals
that are present up in the Adirondacks
and talk about some of the overall geology the area
and you can see that this is a fairly well known covered bridge located in Jay
and we were very close to it
looking at the rocks there in particular.
So just a little bit about
the geology program.
The two Geology professors are myself and my colleague Dr. Jeff Webber.
Who this is him on the top left picture.
This is obviously another picture of me.
Maybe with slightly, a little bit more hair, longer hair.
All of the additional faculty members who
teach geology classes or affiliated classes.
Have primary appointments in either the
environmental science program
Like Emma Witt and Jess Favorito on the right side.
Dr. Susanne Moskalski from the 
marine science faculty on the left side,
and then our two paleontologists
are in the biology program,
Matt Bonnan and Margaret Lewis.
I also put my emeritus colleague Dr. Hozik in the lower left picture.
Who is still around and still comes to various events
and participates around the program.
So that's who we are as a program.
So, while we only have two faculty members whose primary appointment is in geology.
You can see that we have a broader base of faculty members that are in other programs.
So it's kind of nice that it enables us to
teach a broader perspective of classes
then a lot of other similar sized
schools might be able to teach.
So for example Jess Favorito teaches
soil science and soil chemistry.
Which are not necessarily the classes
you might get in a lot of smaller schools
with a geology program.
So probably the biggest question that all of you guys are asking is what do geologist do for a living?
And, can you actually make a living doing geology?
and this is probably the most common
misconception that people have
that people have a tendency to just think of geology 
as "oh, you look at rocks all day"
and while some of us do look at rocks a lot.
It is certainly not one of the only
things that geologists do
and the careers that people get
after they have a geology degree can be very diverse in
terms of what kinds of fields they can get into.
Now these are..
There are a lot of different types of
careers within the geosciences
and this is data that was taken from the
US Bureau of Labor Statistics from 2018.
You'll see another figure for the 2019 data
which is ever so slightly different.
but this particular field figure shows you
the variations in salaries that you can get
for a wide variety of different kinds of
subfields that geologists oftentimes end up in.
So you can see that the traditional
kind of generic  geoscientists.
They all plot up in here and they are in about 
$91 thousand dollars.
Now this is across the entire board.
Whether or not they are doing environmental consulting.
Whether they are working for a mining company.
Whether they're working for the federal government.
So ninety one thousand is the median
salary across the board.
You can see other kinds of fields like hydrologists.
These are geologists who
focused on water in particular.
They earn a little bit less,
but still way higher than the average U.S. salary of only $38 thousand.
You can also see - there also fields and careers in here that typically do not require a bachelor's degree.
Like some of these technician
type of positions which are typically
the lower-paying kinds of salaries that are out there.
So when we focused just on
the average geoscientists and excluding
some of the the additional fields that
are a little further afield such as say
the engineering managers or
civil engineers or things like geographers
You can see that when we 
typically look at the values for -
This is last year's data
from 2019 from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Again the median geosciences
is at ninety one point five.
Mining and geological engineers earn about $91thousand.
Hydrologists are up a little bit more from up to $81 thousand.
Environmental scientists earn about $71.5 thousand.
Average physical scientists earn 
about $81 thousand in general.
So it gives you an idea that 
geoscientists get paid very well
to do what they're doing.
Now you're probably asking yourselves -
what do they do in particular?
and this is probably again the most common
lack  of understanding of what geology is and
what we do in particular.
The other thing that is also really important is the
fact that this is a very -
very much a growth kind of industry.
There is a lot of discussion that the number of Geoscientist is going to drastically increase.
If you look at the average value for the percent increase over the next five to ten years.
The job growth according to again to the Bureau of
Labor Statistics is about somewhere
between nine and thirteen percent
depending on the specific type of
Geoscience careers that you're going in to.
If you contrast that with the average
national science averages.
They come out to about seven seven and a half percent.
So geoscientists are expected
to be much more highly in demand
than a lot of other fields that are currently
out there
and again this is one of these things that people don't know because
geology is usually not taught at the high school.
Every once in a while you might find that
you have an earth science kind of class
but it's usually taught at a more simplistic kind of level
and doesn't really make you aware of
the kinds of careers that are out there
Now the kinds of careers that are out there can be very
diverse in terms of what you can find
yourselves working in
For example most of our students end up working in either environmental geology
or in what I would call their engineering geology or
geotechnical kinds of engineering.
So environmental geology can be things
looking at water quality.
Things that are looking at aspects like soil
erosion.
Aspects of dealing with things like landfills
and how to make them
properly safe so that they do not pollute
or looking at again pollutions
 that is already currently there
and figuring out means of remediating it.
These are all kinds of fields that
environmental consultants and
environmental geologists will be highly in demand for.
The other... One of the other major areas that is of extreme importance is earth resources.
One of the classic phrases 
that we say in geology is the fact that
if it's not grown, it's mined and that's because of the fact that people don't realize that
literally everything that you are using 
short of paper products
and occasionally certain kinds of
clothes that are coming from
from natural fibers and things like that.
Pretty much everything that you use
is coming from the ground in some way
shape or form and some of you guys are
probably thinking of more traditional
kinds of things like the gold that's in
the lower-left kind of picture but it also includes the
importance of the rare earth elements
which most of you guys probably may have
not have heard of but these are the
lanthanide series for the most part that
are at the bottom of the periodic table
and this is - these are particularly
important for most modern kinds of
technologies like your cell phone or
things like solar cells, solar panels,
electric batteries for vehicles.
All of these kinds of advanced kinds of
instruments and tools and things.
Need these rare earth elements. So
finding the deposits of these kinds of
materials is of the utmost importance.
And some of you guys probably may have
heard in the news of the rare earth
elements from the fact that China
recently - they control the dominant
supply of rare earth elements that are currently mined.
So finding additional deposits of them
has been a very high priority for the
federal government for example.
So it also includes earth resources that some of you might not necessarily think of are as important
but others of you might think of it from
the the gemology and or jewelry kind of aspect
but things like emeralds. You
don't necessarily realize it but we
We use pretty much everything
that we can get out of the ground.
Whether it's for making roads in the aggregate industry.
Whether it is making building materials
like your the gypsum in your wall board
or whether it's mining salt that we need for our diet.
All of these various things
come back into play.
Probably the other most highly recognizable type of
career that most people think 
geologists are going to be likely to do.
Is work in geologic hazards.
And this can include everything from thinking about volcanic kinds of eruptions.
Like the picture on the left side from Paricutin in Mexico back in the 1940s
or whether we're thinking about
massive kinds of earthquakes
and tsunamis like the picture in the lower right hand sides showing you
a particular shot from the Fukushima earthquake and subsequent tsunami that happened a few years back.
So geologists are the ones who are going
to study these kinds of natural hazards
and they're going to be the ones that
oftentimes are trying to come up with ways to
mitigate them to prevent them in
some cases or they are going to be the
ones that are going to try to clean up afterwards.
This is earthquake damage taken from the
1989 California earthquake.
Some of these other kinds of geologic hazards,
this is probably an image that's 
probably seared in to a lot of your minds
thinking about superstorms Sandy
and obviously it was previously a hurricane
but thinking about the flooding that occurs.
Whether it's flooding that is occurring from
coastal kinds of activity or
whether it is river kind of flooding.
Whether they are what we call urban
floods, downstream floods.
These are the kinds of natural disasters that are most
likely to affect the average person in their lifespan
and having a good understanding of where the water is going.
Where it is trying to move to
and thinking about ways that we can mitigate this
is really important and they do
require geologists to do a lot of this work.
You also think larger scale.
You think about massive kinds of impacts.
Literally like the meteor crater out in Arizona like this picture is taken up from the Barringer crater,
but we think about the importance of the fact that
these kinds of massive impacts of
bolides can cause significant damage
and NASA for example
usually has a team of geologists that they correspond with to think about how to handle this kind of material.
You also think about major kinds of landslides
and other types of mass movements.
This is all coming back again to geology
because geologists are
the ones that typically are going to go
through and try to identify areas
that are prone to these kinds of mass movements.
And this is the second most
common type of natural disaster that the
average person is going to 
experience and during their life.
And in most cases it's probably
not necessarily going to kill you
but it can cause significant 
economic kind of damage to your
buildings, your cars, roadways, etc.
It also includes things like sinkholes
and understanding karst topography
and cave systems.
All of these come back to having
a good understanding of the geology.
One of the other major areas that geologists
contribute to is our understanding of
how climate change is taking place
and these are a couple of marine geologists
taking samples from a coral and in this
case they're trying to look at one is
long term kind of record of how climate
has changed on our planet.
I have colleagues elsewhere who were
glaciologists who look at how glaciers
are melting in permafrost and thinking
about how these kinds of impacts are
going to affect society and affect our
planet as a whole.
So understanding climate changes goes
beyond just say the most recent hundred
years worth of data or so from say
atmosphere collection of temperature and
gas, co2 levels and things like that.
So it's the geologist typically that are 
the ones that look into the deeper time
to figure out what happened ten thousand years ago,
a hundred thousand years ago,
a million years ago.
The last kind of thing that people don't realize is the fact that there are significant interactions between
the biological kind of community
and the geological kind of community.
And in particular microbes play a very
significant role in terms of how
minerals are created in the near surface
kind of environment or in some cases how
they're broken down and the picture on
the top right is of a particular kind of
microbe called Shewanella. It's a type of bacteria that is digesting basically an iron-bearing mineral
and so these kinds of - what we oftentimes refer to as
geomicrobiology or
microbiology or Geobiochemistry.
All of these different kinds of fields require
an understanding of both mineralogical side
and the biological kind of side of things.
We also think about areas where understanding how life developed on our planet.
And this is a picture that I took
when I was on a research cruise
but I was an undergrad a long time ago and
looking at the black smoker communities
on the East Pacific Rise and
understanding how the microbes, the
bacteria there in particular, may be
analogues for how life on our planet form.
Or if not there, someplace like hot 
springs in Yellowstone for example.
These kinds of thermophilic kind of bacteria are -
They thrive on either the the minerals themselves
are on the hydrothermal fluids that
are coming out of these different
kinds of vent communities.
So all of these different kinds of areas give potential kinds of careers that people can get into.
So some of these geology / biology type of interfaces.
These will commonly be dealing more with academic kind of research.
But again particularly
what we call the Bio-Remedia... bioremediation.
This oftentimes gets tied
back into environmental geology again.
So the last thing that I kind of want to
point out is again comes back to this
whole question of earth resources and
that's because again,
whenever we look at pretty much
everything you use in your life.
It is coming from the ground.
And that means that you have to mine it and process it
and in order to mine it and process it efficiently
it has to be done environmentally friendly
and it also has to be found in the first place.
So this image that I utilized from 
the minerals education coalition
gives you kind of a brief overview of some,
not all of the different kinds of minerals
that you will use during your
lifespan as the average American.
Where you're going to need a little over
12,000 pounds of clay for example
and you don't necessarily
realize this but this goes into making
all of the ceramics that you use.
Whether it is the ceramics that you use in 
your kitchen for your eating and plates and things
or whether these are the
high-temperature kinds of ceramics that
go into your automobiles
or into lots of the kinds of furnaces that we use to
make all the metal objects that we use.
You think about things like bauxite.
This is a mineral that is the
primary ore for the metal aluminum.
Every time you think of an aluminum can of some type.
You'll think about the fact that that's where
the aluminum is coming from
is the mineral bauxite and you need a little
over six thousand pounds of that in your lifespan.
So again all of this comes back
to the fact that we have to be able to find this.
These different kinds of minerals and metals,
be able to process it,
and be able to do everything in an
environmentally responsible kind of fashion.
So Stockton's geology program is
a very successful one.
I over the past 10 years that I've been present at Stockton - this is the end of my tenth year.
We have sent students off to about roughly a
hundred different kinds of companies that are out there.
So this list that I'm showing you is far from complete.
It is only a selection of different
kinds of jobs and careers that people have had so
you can see that there are some of these that are international  kinds of companies like Chevron,
or whether they are major federal government agencies like the Army Corps of Engineers
or the EPA, Environmental Protection Agency
or whether they work for state agencies like the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
or the Florida Department of Health.
Most of the students end up working in
either environmental consulting or
geotechnical engineering and these kind
of companies can be things like the
International / national kind of ones
like Langan or Kleinfelder
or whether they're working for smaller kind of companies like TRC
or Princeton hydro.
We also have students that have gone on to teach in
the K to 12 kind of education districts.
I put two of the student...
the different districts that we have alumni working at.
Millville here in New Jersey and
then the an Anne Arundel County
public school district in Maryland.
We also have a few others scattered across the country.
The other thing I also want to
point out is the fact that a lot of
these companies are all around the states.
Again we - the one student works for the Army Corps of Engineers works in there Oregon office.
We have several students who are all working out in Colorado.
Again the important thing about 
Stockton's geology program is
that we prepare the students to be qualified to
go on and work anywhere around the world.
And you'll see that here in one second.
Where we look at some of the students
who have gone on to graduate school
for either a master's degree or a PhD.
You can see that we have sent students
all over the entire planet.
We have students who have graduated with the
master's from the University of
Stellenbosch in South Africa.
We have several students who've gone to Canadian
universities like the University of Windsor or
Memorial University.
We have a student who went down to the University of Christchurch in New Zealand.
And again this is only data from the past ten years.
This list is again not exhaustive
by any means but you can see we have,
we send people all over our own country.
Whether they're currently out in northern Arizona
like one of my students who graduated two years ago
or whether it's a little
closer to home like Rutgers or Temple.
So our students are very successful
wherever they go and
as a general rule of thumb over
the last ten or eleven years of data -
of all the graduates - 92 percent of them are all working
specifically doing Geoscience or
science education such as the - 
the two students who are working in the
Millville public school district or the Anne Arundel.
The only remaining percentage of people who are not are
either people who I don't know where they currently are
or who have decided to go into more just
traditional kinds of business.
Typically family business is the most common.
So Stockton's geology program does an
excellent job of preparing students for
a wide variety of different types of careers
and success not just here in New Jersey and in the
mid-atlantic but around the entire globe.
Now the other big thing about Stockton's
geology program that makes us
a little more special is the fact that we place an extreme
premium on field experiences
and our graduates are constantly told after
they get hired by whatever their company is
or their graduate students, graduate schools.
That they are better prepared for field studies than almost all of their competitive colleagues.
I've been told this personally by
graduate advisors from other schools
as well as from companies that are currently out there.
And that's because of the fact that we start
going on field trips in the introductory Geology classes.
Whether it's the physical geology class or
the historical geology class.
These are pictures that were taken from
the two ones on the right side are taken
from North Jersey close to the Delaware River
and the one that's in the lower left side is taken from the
Greater Philadelphia area
where we take a two separate day trips
on Saturdays for the introductory classes.
All of the upper level classes typically go on 
either an extended weekend, kind of trip,
or they will go up for for a very long,
kind of, full day Saturday kind of trip.
So my mineralogy class that I teach.
We typically go up to the Adirondacks every
every other year when we teach this class
and we see where say for example,
most of the garnet that goes 
into making sandpaper comes from.
That's this lower left picture.
We see one of the old abandoned iron mines
that was extremely important
both for iron and later for titanium.
That's in the top left picture
and then also where the
mineral called wollastonite, is mined
 in the lower right picture.
And wollastonite gets used for
adding a lot of strength and durability to plastics for example. So all of the
kind of dent resistant plastic that they put on cars for example.
That is almost always created 
by adding wollastonite to it.
And we get that's an active mine. The other two are currently inactive.
The garnet mine they've moved their main operations
away from where this picture is
but it's a great opportunity for
students to see geology outside.
Our other upper-level classes - I take my petrology class
to Connecticut and Rhode Island
and they get a very strong background in both the
igneous and metamorphic rocks in the area
but we also tie everything back in
with the overall tectonics
of how are the Appalachians have been formed
over the last 700 million years or so.
My colleague Jeff Weber takes the structure
class and the field geology class to
various locations in Pennsylvania and
New Jersey and Vermont.
He varies them up typically year to year so.
For example the structure geology trip last,
not last year, but the year before.
That trip started off in Vermont,
made its way through Massachusetts and
ended up in, kind of, north central Pennsylvania.
The field geology class went up to
Vermont if I remember specifically.
But again they will go all
over the place for day trips as well.
The other thing that makes Stockton's
geology a little more unique and special
is the fact that our undergraduate
students are always going to be involved
in faculty research projects or in internships.
And it's a requirement for all the students to actively do either an internship or
to partake in a research project
during their time at Stockton.
And it's probably about a third of them get internships
and about two-thirds of them through research.
But it varies from year to year.
Generally speaking most of the faculty research
always incorporates students in it in various ways
and you'll see here in a minute
some examples of some of them.
But we typically go all over the country again
for our research projects and you
can also see that there are a couple
that are outside of the country here in Canada.
But you can see we have a lot of 
projects here in, kind of, the East Coast.
Places like the Adirondacks again, up in northern Jersey,
and southern New York
over through places like Maine.
But we also have some projects that are currently ongoing from places like Arizona and Montana.
So just to give you guys kind of an idea about a couple of these different kinds of projects.
I'm not going to go through all of them but
if you want to look at more of them you
can find them either on our website or
if you contact the faculty in particular
they can give you more details.
So one of the projects that I'm currently working
on with a bunch of my students is
looking at former iron mines here in New
Jersey and southern New York.
And looking to see whether or not there could be
elevated and economic quantities of some
of these rare earth elements again.
And that's because of the fact that
other people have found that
iron mines, some of which are abandoned, and some of which are not.
Elsewhere in both the US
and around the world.
Do have elevated quantities of
rare earth elements in them.
And so that's that's kind of where 
we're looking for in these particular
places because again in a lot of these old mines.
There are huge piles of what we call tailings.
Basically the leftovers that were left from when they actually mined them out in the 18 -
early 1800s - mid 1800s
up in some cases through the early 1900s.
So in some cases these
mines may have economic quantities of these rare earth elements
and so we're trying to see
whether or not we can find this.
Another project that I'm currently working on
with my students is we're trying to look at
volcanic and plutonic igneous rocks
from Arizona
and trying to tie them there together specifically and
then also trying to put them into a
greater tectonic kind of framework
of how these rocks were formed.
And you can see that this is a picture you'll see a little later on when we come to the geology club
of where we actually did a lot of this field work
while we were out there on the club trip.
And so it's an excellent opportunity to 
get involved with a variety of different projects.
Another kind of project that
I'm working on is, looking at understanding,
what is the character of the mantle beneath us
and in particular the mantle below Rhode Island.
As it was starting to separate out
from Africa and Western Europe
And that's through a group of volcanic dikes
that are found in this one little area
in Rhode Island and they carry up chunks of
the mantle is what we call xenoliths
and that's what these little green blobs
inside of this darker black rock is and so
all of these little green and/or red spots in here -
represent literally pieces of the mantle that had been grabbed from about,
roughly 300 kilometers deep below
our feet and have been brought up to the surface.
And so we've been analysing
these to try and understand
something about the nature of the mantle.
My colleague Jeff Weber currently has
projects working in southwestern Montana,
and just slightly over into the border if I remember correctly now,
into Wyoming, if I remember.
And he's - these are some pictures from
his field season a few years back.
Where he's looking at
understanding deformation
in some of these complex, what we call shear zone.
and trying to understand how these things are getting
moved around inside of the earth.
He's also been working on the past up in Saskatchewan.
again looking at how the
overall tectonics have
basically stitched together the ancient kraton of
that part of Canada.
And in particular he looks at
mostly the mineral magnetite
in order to do this.
And you can see in here -
these are some of his - this is more of his
field pictures,
as well as some of the rocks and what they look like out in the field themselves.
My colleague Susanne Moskalski is 
our marine geologist.
She's in the marine science program.
And she does a lot of work
mostly with coastal sedimentation.
But in some cases it's also just simply doing things like
mapping out the bottom of the seafloor out there.
Or in some cases the bottom of
the estuary kinds of environments.
And these are a couple of her students who
are geology students in particular.
Digging through either sediments or this
picture in the bottom left is them -
basically mapping out the subsurface
seafloor.
She also works in the tidal marshes
and in the back bays to again
understand how sedimentation is taking place in there.
And these this is one of
her students from a few years back
taking what we call a core sample and
you can see that she is holding this
coring device and basically kind of kind
of drilling your way down to collect a
core of the sediment that then can be
brought back into the lab and you can
see the students in here describing it
probably sampling it in order to look at
how everything is working in the the
tidal marsh systems.
So the other thing that kind of makes
this a little more special is the fact
that all of our students are, end up
going on and presenting their research
at the international and national
conferences that we attend.
And for the most part we typically go to the
geologic Society of America's northeastern conference.
Because it's an excellent forum for the students to present their data at
and it gives them the opportunity
to engage with experts from
all over the country as well as parts of Canada and sometimes overseas in Europe and things like that.
And they show you four of our student posters from a variety of different years.
Unfortunately nobody presented
last this past year because of the
coronavirus canceling the conference but
the two on the Left were from last
year's presentation
and the two on the right were from
two years before that so
I guess that's three years ago now.
So all of our students are required to do
these presentations.
And again in a lot of cases these offer the students the
opportunity to engage with these experts
but also look for things like potential
graduate school advisors and potential employers
and it's just a great experience for the students to experience this firsthand.
So the other thing that I want to point out is the
fact that while the geology program does
all of this kind of stuff.
There is a related student organization that is closely tied with the geology program
and that is the Geology Club.
I am the faculty advisor for it.
And part of the reason why I
mentioned the club is the fact that
while it is open to everybody across campus,
usually it tends to be dominated by the 
geology majors and minors
but we have typically even had students
from health sciences, criminal justice,
mathematics, chemistry, sociology.
We've had literally everybody across campus can join the Geology Club.
But the Geology Club is...
Revolves around three main things.
The first is that we do additional field trips.
These are all student-run field trips.
But we typically end the semester with a
two to two-and-a-half week long trip
someplace that we can't necessarily get
to with a class trip
through an extended weekend so
usually we go out to places like Arizona
and that's where the bottom left picture is
as well as the top right picture is.
You can see there's a picture taken
from Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico dead center and
then the lower right picture is taken from Arizona..
Sorry not from Arizona, but from Utah.
So we typically go out west.
Some years we have gone up to parts of Canada.
We did the Atlantic provinces of
Newfoundland.
Newfoundland in Nova Scotia a few years back.
But every year we go
someplace that's a little bit more interesting
and diverse than than what
we would just get with our class trips alone.
So they also do day trips as well to
places like the Sterling Hill mine,
up in new North Jersey. 
Up in Ogdensburg technically.
And then they get tours and things like that.
The other main aspect of the Geology Club that I want
to point out is the fact that they
do a lot of educational outreach
through school districts all
across New Jersey.
They've gone everywhere from places like
Howell all the way down to Cape May Courthouse,
over West to Mount Laurel.
Sorry, well I guess technically Mount Laurel school district, but the Lenape district in general.
They will go out and teach kids of a variety of different
ages about what geology is.
What rocks and minerals are and to a certain degree
depending on the exact teacher's request
they can also talk about fossils and
things like that.
So the Geology Club is very closely related to the Geology program
and again it is open to everybody across the campus
but usually the - almost all the geology majors and minors end up being part of the club
because it's just an additional experience an opportunity.
I mean these - just kind of...
I wanted to wrap up showing
you a couple of the pictures from some of
the recent trips and you can see that -
we go really cool places.
They... Even the class trips go to
really cool and fun places.
Overall speaking these are not the
kinds of opportunities that you will get
if you go to most other schools and/or universities.
But I mean I will kind of leave it with this.
And like I said if you have any questions,
feel free to email me.
Again it's on both the website
specifically for the geology program
but you can also if you are just
watching this you can write it down that
my email address is just my name
Matthew.Severs@stockton.edu
so feel free to shoot me any questions that you might have.
Concerns or interest in the program.
So if there are no other questions I
will go ahead and sign out.
So I hope that you guys have learned something about geology
and will consider coming to Stockton for it.
Thank you guys.
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