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1. Welcome! Thanks for joining us for - From microfossils to museums: Public engagement at the University of California Museum of Paleontology Lisa White, Director of Education, UC Museum of Paleontology This webinar will begin at 7:05 pm Eastern time. • If you didn’t enter your first and last name in the “Guest” field, please close this window and log back in using your full name (necessary to keep track of attendance). • If you joined us early and are waiting— • Please enjoy the background music. If you can’t hear it, make sure your computer speakers are turned on. • Please feel free to write a question in the Chat Box! We will try to answer it during the presentation. • Don’t forget to join the myFOSSIL community at www.myfossil.org • Having technical problems? Ask us for help by typing in the chat box or check the troubleshooting guide at https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Web_Conferencing

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4. Outline • My journey from photographer to paleontologist • Mentoring, diversity, and training the next generation of scientists • Life as an education director at a major research museum • Q&A • Wrap-up & survey

5. San Francisco, CA 1978 My early path • Grew up in San Francisco near the California Academy of Sciences • I was more interested in the arts than in the sciences in high school • Attended San Francisco State University as an undergraduate student, enrolled in a geology class the year Mt. St. Helens erupted • Interned at the US Geological Survey • Graduate school at UC Santa Cruz • Returned to San Francisco State as a professor in 1990 • Appointed Director of Education at the UCMP in 2012 Marin County, CA 2008

6. Positions Held • Director of Education and Outreach, Museum of Paleontology, UC Berkeley (2012- present) • Director, SF-ROCKS and METALS geoscience education programs (2001 – present) • Professor of Geosciences, San Francisco State Univ (1990-2012) • Associate Dean, SFSU College of Science and Engineering (2008-12) • Associate Dean, SFSU Division of Graduate Studies (2006-08) • Fellow, Geological Society of America, California Academy of Sciences • Project Coordinator, US Geological Survey • Shipboard Scientist, International Ocean Drilling Program • BA (Geology), SFSU; PhD (Earth Sciences), UC Santa Cruz

7. Geological Society of AmericaBromery Award for Diversity in the Geosciences With parents Dr. Joseph and Myrtle White

8. Fossil Diatoms and Diatomites • High resolution paleo- environmental indicators • Unique physical properties • Varves record seasonal blooms • Reflect changes in climate Polished sample from Miocene Monterey Formation diatomite quarry Scale box = 10 microns Chang, Grimm, and White (1998)

9. Ship explorations in the Pacific Ocean • International Ocean Discovery program, http://iodp.tamu.edu/ • Operates scientific ship that drills and recovers sediment cores from the ocean • Diatoms and other fossils are proxies to understanding the geological history of the oceans

10. Field explorations around the Pacific Rim • Alaska • Japan, China, Korea • Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama • Sakhalin Island, Russia Fresh bear tracks, Sakhalin, Russia Miocene cold seep carbonates in Sakhalin, Russia

11. SF-ROCKS to METALS: Reaching Out to Communities and Kids with Science in San Francisco http://sf-rocks.sfsu.edu/

12. Training the next generation of geoscientists Student participants in the SF-ROCKS program

13. Creating Environmentally andCulturally Meaningful Experiences • Geoscience trips to Utah and Navajo Nation for high school students • Southern Louisiana coastal trips focused on community resilience and disappearing lands post-Katrina • Trips to Montana, Wyoming, and to Yellowstone National Park • Trips to Lassen Volcanic and Yosemite National Parks

14. UCMP Web Resources ucmp.berkeley.edu

15. Understanding Evolutionwww.understandingevolution.org • One-stop shopping for teaching and learning about evolutionary biology, K-16 • > 1.5 million page accesses/month during the school year • In top 5 Google results for the search term “evolution” • SPORE award from Science Magazine (plus several other awards) • Translations into Spanish, Turkish, Portuguese

16. Understanding Sciencewww.understandingscience.org • Materials and strategies for incorporating the true nature and process of science into instruction • Introduces the interactive Science Flowchart, which overturns the five-step “scientific method” • Flowchart has been incorporated into several major textbooks • >150,000 page accesses/month during the school year • SPORE award from Science Magazine

17. Understanding Science in Diverse Communities

18. Coming in 2018: Understanding Global Change

20. Funded by NSF DBI-1502500, DBI-1503065, DBI-1503545, DBI-1503611, DBI-1503613, DBI-1503628 and DBI-1503678; 2015-2019 http://epicc.berkeley.edu/ • Projects efforts will make 1.6 million specimen records available online through digital data, photographs, and virtual field experiences. • A partnership of nine natural history museums, united to digitize marine invertebrate fossils found in the eastern Pacific.

21. The Bearded Lady Project • Documentary film and photographic project • Celebrating the work of female paleontologists • Highlighting the challenges and obstacles we face as women in the field Portrait for The Bearded Lady Project http://thebeardedladyproject.com/

22. San Francisco, CA 1978 My current path • As a museum education director my duties are wide-ranging • Connect research and collections to subjects of interest to educators and the public • Draw from my personal and educational experiences to shape current training programs • Partner with diverse urban and youth populations to raise awareness of the natural world and changing environments. Chicxulub, Mexico 2017

23. Q&A • Feel free to ask me any questions!

24. Wrap-up & Survey • This concludes the presentation. Thanks! • Remember to take the short (5 to 10 minutes) feedback survey at: http://tinyurl.com/WiPLisa • Visit us at myFOSSIL to access: this Powerpoint, recorded webinars, participate in webinar forum, and connect with others. • Stay tuned for more info about our Fall 2017 webinar series on fossil ID!