Dr. ALESSANDRO GRIPPO, Ph.D. Santa Monica College Department of Earth Science 1900 Pico Boulevard Santa Monica, CA 90405 contact me recent INTERNSHIPS, OPPORTUNITIES, and ANNOUNCEMENTS C-DEBI / National Science Foundation (NSF) offers experiences and internships for Undergraduates: check out the Global Environmental Microbiology (GEM) Summer Course (2019) at USC and Catalina Island Internship for undergraduates at the Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) Train in invertebrate paleontology with the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County A paid internship at SEA Lab, a program of the Los Angeles Conservation Corps for marine science education in Redondo Beach EARTH AND SPACE EXPLORATION RECENT VIDEOS Hunting down an asteroid and returning a space sample to Earth, a video from the New York Times Space exploration: Voyager's 40th anniversary, a video from the New York Times Space exploration: Cassini burns into Saturn, a video from the New York Times For more Earth and space exploration info and videos, check NASA's website CLASSES TAUGHT AT SMC TEXTBOOKS IN USE SPRING 2021 IMAGES, NOTES, and LABS FOSSIL ECOSYSTEMS of North America Test Questions Samples FIELD Old Semesters 10 tips for success in the class GEOLOGY ORGANIZATIONS GEOLOGY JOURNALS EARTH SCIENCE ARTICLES and BLOGS RESEARCH FORMATTING RULES OTHER CLASSES REQUIRED TEXTBOOKS for Spring 2021 A few tools for the geologist in the field: a short guide to HAMMERS AND COMPASSES A few Amazon links to some of the GEOLOGY VIDEOS shown in class STUDENTS OPPORTUNITIES The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) offer several opportunities for students The curve you see above represents the variation of the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere, in parts per million (A thousand parts per million is equivalent to 0.1%), year after year since 1958. MOUNT ACONCAGUA, ARGENTINA At 6959 m (22831 feet) of elevation, Mount Aconcagua is located along the Chile-Argentina border in South America, and it is the world's highest peak after the mountains of the Himalayas. Mount Aconcagua is part of the Andes mountain chain, a continental volcanic arc. Powered by IP2Location.com © Alessandro Grippo, since 1994       last updated: August 9, 2021 (58.64) LEGAL NOTICE