Geology Program
Geology Faculty & Staff
Faculty
Dani MacArthur
Geology Faculty and Department Coordinator
dmacarthur@laspositascollege.edu
Professor Dani Blatter (she/her) is extremely passionate about the planet we call home and teaching students to understand and value it. Dani sees their role as preparing the next generation of young people to be informed citizens capable of advocating for their planet.
Adjunct Faculty
Oliver Christen
Geology Faculty
christeno@laspositascollege.edu
Oliver Christen's graduate work focused on groundwater modeling and has a Master's degree in Geology from UC Davis. His thesis was titled Geochemical Study of Natural and Man-made Brines and their Future Migration in Groundwater at Lindsay California, 1995. He teaches at several Bay Area Colleges.
Kylara "Kelly" Martin
Geology Faculty
kmartin@laspositascollege.edu
Amanda Brown
Geology Faculty
ambrown@laspositascollege.edu
Amanda has her Bachelors in Astronomy, her Masters in Environmental Science, and over 30+ hours of PhD work in Geoscience. This academic background gives her the ability to teach enthusiastically with an inter-disciplinary approach.
Christina Wasem
Geology Faculty
cwasem@laspositascollege.edu
Tina Wasem got her PhD in Planetary Science from UC Santa Cruz. She is especially interested in how planets like the Earth form. She enjoys knitting and going to the desert (because there's so few pesky growing green things to obscure the rocks).
Nidhi Patel
Geology Faculty
npatel@laspositascollege.edu
Geology Lab Tech