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The San Andreas fault

Application
for the
Faults in the Field Expedition
to Southern California

May 6-12, 2008

Dr. Michele Cooke (left)

In May 2008 Dr. Michele Cooke, a geoscientist at the Univ. of Massachusetts, will lead a field expedition to southern California. MSSD students can apply to go on the field trip using this application form. Students and teachers from six other schools for the deaf will be iinvolved. On this trip students will study active faults and earthquake zones, such as the San Andreas fault zone. Students will learn about how geologic hazards impact on society. This 6-day trip will incorporate visits to active faults, landslides and costal erosion areas around city and urban communities. The goal of the Faults in the Field Expedition is to apply skills and understanding learned in classroom activities to full scale geologic faults in the field.

Stops during the Expedition will include Cajon Pass, Lone Pine Canyon, San Jacinto Mountain, Palm Springs, Santa Monica, the Brea Tar Pits, and Long Beach. The trip will involve moderately strenuous activity in the form of hiking and moving across rough terrain for fieldwork. Overnight accommodations will be in either dorms or hotel rooms

Trip costs per person (estimation):

RT Airfare to Los Angeles: approximately $700
Lodging: $150 (approximately $25/day)
Food: $150 (approximately $25/day)

Scholarships: Full and partial scholarships are available for students. Completing this application makes you eligible for a scholarship. You will learn the amount of your scholarship if you are selected for the Expedition.

La Brea Tar Pits Museum, Hancock Park, Los Angeles, California

    All Information on this form is considered confidential

Personal Information

Name:______________________________________

Birthdate: ______________       Grade: __________

Home address: ______________________________

City: _________________State: ____ Zip: ________

Home phone # or pager: _______________________
Your GPA _______

Do you have any health or
medical considerations for moderately strenuous activity?

Are you available May 6-12, 2008?
Yes ______   No _______

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Written Statement: Type answers to the following two questions on a separate sheet of paper. Your answers should be clear, neat, well written paragraphs.

1. Why do you want to go on the Faults in the Field trip?
2. Are you interested in learning about geoscience? Why? What would you like to learn on this expedition?

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For the Student
I verify that the information on this form is accurate. My signature indicates I want to be selected for the MSSD science team for the Faults in the Field Expedition. I guarantee that if I am chosen for the trip, I will follow all rules and behave in a mature and exemplary manner at all times on the University of Massachusetts expedition.

Student ___________________________________ Date ______________

For the Parent
I am aware of my son/daughter's interest in attending the Faults in the Field Expedition, May 6-12, 2008. I will do what I can to support his/her participation if he/she is selected. I am aware of the costs of the trip and understand that full or partial scholarships are available.

Parent name(s) Please print: ____________________________________________

Signature __________________________________ Date_____________

Parent's email/pager address _____________________________________________

Give the completed application to Ms. Ellsworth before February 8, 2008.
You will be informed by February 18th if you are selected to go on the Expedition.

Additional information about the Faults in the Field Expedition available here: http://www.geo.umass.edu/structure/cooke/FSE-SOARhigh/FIF2008/Riverside_2008.html

Expedition students will take a tram up San Jacinto Mountain to see a view of
the San Andreas fault and learn about evidence of faulting.

Faults in the field    May 6-12 , 2008 Tentative Expedition Schedule

Day 0: Evening - arrival for all students and teachers

Day 1:   The San Andreas Fault:
         Cajon Pass (what does a plate boundary fault look like?)
         Terrace offsets in Lone Pine Canyon (geomorphology and geologic
           evidence for faulting)

Day 2:   The San Andreas Fault:
       1000 Palms (sag ponds, fluid flow around faults and dune migration).
          Tram up San Jacinto Mountain

Day 3:   Coastal exposures of deformation and reading the rock record
        Palos Verdes landslides (landslide mechanics and mitigation)
        Seacliff exposures in Long beach (reading the rock record )

Day 4:   Urban earthquake geology
         Urbanization at the Hollywood fault (living with earthquakes)
          La Brea tar pits

Day 5:   Communicating ideas.
         Visit the Univ. California Riverside campus
         Poster Presentations to students at California School for the Deaf Riverside
         on the interplay of society and geologic hazards.

Day 6:   Departures for all students and teachers