(from Page, 1986)

Paleoclimate and Flooding Histories of the San Joaquin Valley:Paleoclimate and Flooding Histories of the San Joaquin Valley:An NSF-sponsored cooperative project with the CSUB Geology Program and the An NSF-sponsored cooperative project with the CSUB Geology Program and the Kern High School DistrictKern High School District

ICP-MS and Sedigraph Analysis

GiddingsCoring Rig

Lake Core

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Kern Lake

Pleoclimate and Flooding History in the Southern San Joaquin Valley

Community-Centered Research for Improving Minority Participation in the Geosciences:

• Provides training for in-service K-12 teachers, and provide summer research opportunities and scholarships for high school and CSUB geology students

• The project centers around a locally relevant research topic that provides handson learning opportunities for teachers and students

• Funded by NSF

California Science Project

• CSUB faculty and Bakersfield school teachers have participated in workshops at the Central Coast CSP site (Cal Poly SLO)

• We are presently working with Bakersfield City School District to establish a CSP site for Kern County and adjoining regions not covered by CSP.

• The CSP is a statewide, university-based professional development network for science teachers.

The California Science Project provides opportunities for teachers to:

•develop and enhance their science content knowledge and pedagogical skills necessary to implement the State Board of Education science standards

•identify exemplary teaching practices in science classrooms and provide a forum for communicating them to teachers statewide maintain and support intellectually vibrant and mutually supportive professional communities for teachers of science

•develop school-based leadership teams of teachers and K-12 administrators committed to improving science programs

•develop formal partnerships with schools to improve student learning

•provide contracted services to schools and districts

•examine and develop research on learning, knowledge and educational materials.

 

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The California Well Sample Repository• Non-profit service to the academic community and the oil industry

• Located on the campus of Cal State - Bakersfield

• Only facility of its kind in California open to the public

THE CALIFORNIA WELL SAMPLE REPOSITORY

The California Well Sample Repository is California’s only facility for permanent storage and public use of cores, sidewall samples, drill cuttings, outcrop samples, microfaunal slides, foundation borings, and mineral suites. The repository, founded in 1975, consists of two buildings of 6,000 square feet each located on the campus of California State University, Bakersfield.

California Well Sample Repository CollectionCalifornia Well Sample Repository Collection

• Cores, ditch samples, and sidewall samples from more Cores, ditch samples, and sidewall samples from more than 4,000 oil and gas wells located throughout onshore than 4,000 oil and gas wells located throughout onshore and offshore Californiaand offshore California

• Well histories, core descriptions, photos, analyses, and Well histories, core descriptions, photos, analyses, and electric logs for many of the wellselectric logs for many of the wells

• Microscope slides processed for microfauna from over Microscope slides processed for microfauna from over 2,000 wells and outcrop localities.2,000 wells and outcrop localities.

• Foundation boring samples, ocean bottom sediments Foundation boring samples, ocean bottom sediments from water quality control studies, and rock sample from water quality control studies, and rock sample suites from mining districts and geothermal areas.suites from mining districts and geothermal areas.

Well File Collection128 file cabinets, organized by T-R-S

How can you help the CWSR ?

• Provide formation tops on cored wells• Point out errors in databases• Volunteer - spend your lunchtime filing• Organize a weekend work-party • Use the facility and tell others about it• Provide financial support - The CWSR’s current

annual budget is equivalent to less than a nickel for every barrel produced in the state in one day