I chose to study geology because I love
science and geology is science that you
can bring together all the different
sciences into something that you can
study something so much greater than any
other specific science while still
loving and doing all the others.
Wayne State's geology program is unique in
that we go on field trips almost every
mandatory geology course - we go to Canada,
went to Missouri just a few weeks ago,
and you get to actually see and experience
these special localities not that far
away from us and do work that you
do in the field. For some kind of place
that's still an urban environment where
you could still get to go see if
experience the culture of the city.
One of those memorable times doing one of
these field trips I talk about was I
Bancroft, Ontario in Canada.
One of the first sites we went to
the very first day was this huge mine.
That it's called Pegmatite which just
means really big crystals. And walking in it was something I had never seen,
something with crystals the size
of me if not bigger and it's walking in
and be able to look at that and collect
and see these things in touch with my
hands. It was an amazing experience that
you can only get from this department
from the years of contact that our
faculty has had with these people and in
going is miners know that we can go and
do at a budget and still have an amazing time.
Definitely studying geology in an
urban environment gives a unique look
because, there's not only the
environments created by people and all
these things, but you but also we have
access to our collections you see behind
me, everything that we can see things
from across all across the globe.
Yet, also learn what it's like in a more
urban area and see how it affects people
on a larger scale and see how humans
interact with nature.
Wayne State's faculty
is unique in that these people are not
only teaching you, they are learning
themselves by doing research actively in
the field, almost, I'm pretty sure all of
our faculty members are actively in some
way actively engaged in research right
now. And these aren't just little
projects that people may not feel about.
These are massive sometimes
NSF-funded trips that are on a global
scale, such as Professor Baskaran and his current work in geo traces,
or, Professor Brownlee in her work.
These are people who aren't just,
teaching the course or just trying to
remember what they learned in doc and
grad school or something. These are
people who are making, doing the research, making the discoveries. And teaching you at the same time.
