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SANTA BARBARA CITY COLLEGE 31St ANNUAL FACULTY LECTURE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS DEDICATION SANTA BARBARA CITY COLLEGE Life has blessed me many times. Somehow the path was there before I would like to dedicate this lecture to two departed friends and colleagues 31st ANNUAL FACULTY LECTURE me and how lucky I have been to follow it. However, I am indebted and whose memories are still with me. First, to Phil Olsen, my colleague in grateful to many people who I have met in this great adventure of life. the Earth and Planetary Sciences Department. We shared so many wonderful I am thankful for the friendships of so many people who have shared their geological adventures and so many interesting Naval stories during more lives, their fun and their laughter with me. than two decades at SBCC. Second, to Dr. Peter Angeles, my Philosophy I am grateful to this great nation that has allowed me to go to college Department colleague at SBCC. Peter lit up my life for one who was outside of and gave me the stepping-stones toward my life’s career. You can’t the realm of natural sciences. He had quite an insight into the natural sciences beat that! and we shared many wonderful communications about nature. I also want to dedicate this talk to those who made our geology program great–the geology Furthermore, a round of gold medals should go to my outstanding majors past and present. They, too, have helped to light up my life. colleagues in the Earth and Planetary Sciences Department who have Keep on Digging! shared my enthusiasm for the wonderful earth that’s all around us. What a great place to work! Another gold medal should go to my wife, Marcia, for being patient (well, relatively patient) during my days and nights working on this talk. She has constantly shared my failures, as well as my successes. What a way to go! There are so many people to thank for their support, but these are some A Passion for Gold who have truly assisted me in this adventure. I want to thank Dr. James Kennett (UCSB) who provided me with technical assistance, research Ever drifting down the stream materials and wonderful words of wisdom for this talk. Also, a special Lingering in the golden gleam thanks to John Iwerks for his inspiring cartoons and paintings and to Life, what is it but a dream? Melissa Macias for her creative ability with Photoshop and Powerpoint. Lewis Carroll A tip of my hat to John and a hug to Melissa. Many, many thanks to you. Surely I couldn’t have done the logistics without Bill Harz, Danielle D’Alfonso and Naomi Sullwold. Now where are those fossil bones? I also acknowledge and sincerely appreciate the assistance of many SBCC staff personnel who have made possible the setting for this The most beautiful and most profound emotion we can March 11, 2010 31st Faculty Lecture. The excellence of our faculty is matched by the experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the 2:30 p.m. excellence of those who support us. course of all true science. He to whom this emotion is Some of my greatest lifetime experiences and some I am most proud of a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in Sports Pavilion are our geology majors, past and present. They never gave up on the goal awe, is good as dead. East Campus of becoming geologists or being in the field of geology. How fortunate I Albert Einstein have been to be surrounded with these gifts of life! Ah! To stay young at Santa Barbara City College heart for a lifetime. Reception Follows There’s no doubt that I have left out many others who have also inspired me and created a path for me to follow. Somehow my memories are fading, as a tear comes to my eye. I never had to walk alone! Finally, I want to again thank my wife, Marcia, for her love, beauty, understanding and patience. It’s hard to be married to a person who eats, drinks and lives geology and who is measured in geologic time. Honey, I love you! SANTA BARBARA CITY COLLEGE ABOUT THE LECTURE ABOUT THE LECTURER ANNUAL FACULTY LECTURES This is the 31st in a series of lectures wherein a distinguished Santa Picture if you can the modern day Serengeti Plain in Africa hosting nearly Dr. Bob Gray grew up in an orphanage in Altadena, California. At 17, he Bob has received numerous awards over the years. Most notable was Barbara City College faculty member is chosen by colleagues to deliver 2 million large herbivores migrating some 250 miles or more. Shadowing this started college at Los Angeles Valley Community College. His original career the Grover E. Murray Memorial Distinguished Educator Award from the an address on a scholarly subject of general interest. migration are the carnivores lying in wait. Some 70 species of large animals goal was to be an athletic coach. Bob went out for the LA Valley track team. American Association of Petroleum Geologists at their international annual (megafauna) roam the Serengeti Plain. Bob’s track coach explained that his Physical Geology class needed students, meeting in 2008. This award is given to only one college geology educator THE CRITERIA FOR SELECTION Now picture if you can, a similar scene from the Los Angeles basin and parts so he signed the team up for his class. That’s how Bob Gray discovered his in all of the United States per year. Bob is the only community college Outstanding classroom teaching, counseling, or librarianship, of Southern California some 30,000 years ago (BP.) A unique combination of life’s calling. educator to receive this award since its inception. unselfish, dedicated faculty service to Santa Barbara City College. habitats enabled the Los Angeles basin and Santa Barbara, too, to support an array At 18, he left Los Angeles and went to Idaho to work and decided to go to Some of his other notable awards include the “Thomas Dibblee of big animals as abundant as, and more dazzling than, that of a modern Serengeti college at the University of Idaho. He earned two Bachelor of Science degrees: Distinguished Lecturer Award” from the Santa Barbara Gem and Mineral PREVIOUS FACULTY LECTURE HONOREES Plain. Mammoths, mastodons, camels, horses, giant ground sloths, longhorn bison, one in Geological Engineering and one in Naval Science. Society in 2006, the “SBCC Faculty Excellence Award” in 2003, the “John Dr. Robert Casier ........................................................................ 1979-80 ancient bison and pronghorns grazed the region. Upon graduation, the U.S. Navy got him. He served 3 years on active duty Woolley Outstanding Undergraduate College Educator Award” from the Coast Geological Society in 2003, the Pacific Section American Association Mr. Henry H. Bagish ................................................................... 1980-81 These herbivores were prey for meat-eaters unlike any alive today: the great cat (and another 18 years in the Naval Reserves in Naval Oceanography and of Geologists “Distinguished Educator Award” in 1998, and SBCC’s Cal Dr. Charles R. Courtney .............................................................. 1981-82 of California, more than 1½ times larger than the African lion; the savage short- Intelligence). Bob then returned to college – this time at the University of faced bear, again 1½ times as large as the grizzly bear; dire wolves which were Arizona – and earned an M.S. in Geology. His Master’s thesis was mapping Reynolds’s Award for his outstanding service to SBCC in promoting student Dr. Harold M. Dunn .................................................................... 1982-83 bigger versions of today’s wolves; ancient coyotes; and most spectacularly, the rock units on the edge of the Grand Canyon. He then went to work for the U.S. activities in 1981 and 1982. Dr. John Kay ............................................................................... 1983-84 saber-toothed cat. Geological Survey in Flagstaff, Arizona and later for a mining company in the In 2006, Bob was honored by the Dibblee Geology Center at the Santa Mr. Raymond O’Connor ............................................................. 1984-85 One of these other large animals existed only in one place on earth and that Four Corners area, exploring for copper mineral deposits. Barbara Museum of Natural History when they published a geologic map in Dr. Barbara S. Lindemann .......................................................... 1985-86 place is the Santa Barbara Channel Islands. This herbivore was known as the After earning his Ph.D. in Geology, he worked in petroleum exploration his name. On certain appropriate occasions, the Dibblee Center releases a new published geologic map to honor an outstanding geologic professional whose Dr. Elwood Schapansky .............................................................. 1986-87 exiled (pygmy) mammoth (Mammuthus exilis). No other large fossil animal is as a Research Geologist out of Denver. He loved his job, and fieldwork was “work has been of significant value in promoting field geology.” The Geologic Dr. George E. Frakes ................................................................... 1987-88 known from the Channel Islands. his passion. He scoured the Four Corners mapping algal carbonate rocks. He mapped from Sedona, Arizona to Rock Springs, Wyoming, and from Denver, Map of the Big Pine Mountain Quadrangle, Santa Barbara County, California Dr. Elizabeth Hodes .................................................................... 1988-89 There is something mystical about the Channel Islands. They stand rugged and Colorado, to Ely and Elko, Nevada. He authored papers on carbonate rocks is dedicated to him. Dr. Jack R. Ullom........................................................................ 1989-90 firm somewhere beyond our daily reach. They seem to be telling us a story about a different time and a different place. So it is when you step onto these islands. of the Four Corners region, and on paleontology and sedimentation of non- Bob is a tireless volunteer in our community. He leads/assists the YMCA Dr. Curtis B. Solberg .................................................................. 1990-91 You are catapulted back to a time when miniature mammoths roamed the islands.
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