CWU Geology Faculty
This professor is from Wisconsin, has a PBS show, has a habit of dropping his rock hammer down 50-foot cracks, is quite tall, and is the longest-serving professor in the Geology department.
Who is Nick Zentner?
This officer is not present at our meeting today.
Who is Indigo? (if someone else is absent they count too, obvs).
The 4 provinces/states/bodies of water we border.
What are British Columbia CA, Idaho, Oregon, and the Pacific Ocean?
(Glacier Peak is unfortunately NOT REAL, so is not a valid answer).
The chemical formula for quartz.
What is SiO2?
These professors are married.
Who are Dr Hannah Shamloo and Prof. Jordan Carey?
This officer couldn't pronounce "nostalgia" until the 9th grade.
The tallest point on the Olympic Peninsula.
What is Mt. Olympus?
The ubiquitous black rock found everywhere in eastern Washington.
What is basalt?
A rock pun, synonymous with pleasant.
What is Gneiss?
The water lady.
Who is (any one is correct) Lisa Ely, Bre MacInnes, Susan Kaspari, or Carey Gazis?
This officer is the only one whose major is not Geology, B.S.
This county is home to Central Washington University, the Thorp fruit barn, Emmy Award-winning geology educator Nick Zentner, and probably something else.
What is Kittitas County?
This plate is subducting off the west coast of Washington, causing volcanism in the Cascades.
What is the Juan de Fuca plate?
What is Olivine?
Mr PANGA man. Makes really good oatmeal, his office is on the 3rd floor.
Who is Tim Melbourne?
This officer plays 5 instruments.
What is the Columbia, the Yakima, the Snake, the Grande Ronde, the Kettle, the Palouse, the Crab, the Skagit, the Pend Oreille, or the Similkameen?
The two major flood events of Eastern Washington.
This shiny glassy rock is famously brittle in real-life, but very hard in the 2011 Swedish sandbox video game Minecraft.
What is obsidian?
This professor did his PhD work in Western China on metamorphic belts. He additionally has an epic beard and is probably wearing a Patagonia Vest.
Who is Dr Christopher G. Mattinson?
This officer has three sons.
Who is Julie?
The name of the largest lake in the state, a city on that lake, a river coming from that lake, a mountain range north of that river, a highly epic migmatite complex in that mountain range, and the county containing all of those things. Also Wenatchee's there too.
South of Spokane, this hill is made of Paleozoic rock.
What is Steptoe Butte?
A vesicular (bubbly), light (in weight, and usually in color) volcanic rock that often can float in water.
What is pumice?