SCHOOL

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MATHEMATICS
AND

SCIENCE

   DAVID H. WALZ

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF GEOLOGY

e-mail dwalz@reynolds.edu

OFFICE HOURS for FALL SEMESTER 2008 are MWF 8-9am, MWF 10am-11am, TTh 8-9:30am, and TTh 3:40-4:10pm

Contact Information J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College PO Box 85622 Richmond, VA 23285-5622 Parham-Road Campus Burnette Hall           Room 231-A            TEL  (804) 523-5591 FAX (804) 371-3311

Education and Professional Status B.S. Geology, The University of North      Carolina at Chapel Hill  M.A. Geology, The University of Texas at Austin Graduate courses in education, industrial hygiene, and urban studies and planning, Virginia Commonwealth University  Certified Professional Geologist, Commonwealth of Virginia

Professional interests environmental geology hydrogeology paleontology geology of the Commonwealth of Virginia General interests gardening  flat-water canoeing traveling USA/Canada landscape and nature photography birding genealogy

Sunset at Topsail Island Sound, NC

Personal information:

• born in the State of Connecticut, second-generation American of German-Italian ancestry
• married to a professional teacher of young children (kindergarten)
• served in the national interest as a conscientious objector, 1970 to 1972
• our older son is a professional archaeologist and African historian
• our younger son is a professional guitarist

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Parham-Road Campus lecture/laboratory courses:

• GOL 105:  Physical Geology (4 credits) - Fall and Spring semesters, day and night sections
• GOL 106: Historical Geology (4 credits) - Spring Semester, day and night sections;  successful completion of GOL 105 or equivalent is a prerequisite to GOL 106

Field Trips in Geology (as needed):

• GOL 195-71A:  Piedmont Province (1 credit) - Fall Semester (Nov) of each odd-numbered year
• GOL 195-72A:  Northern Virginia and Endless Caverns (1 credit) - Fall Semester (Nov) of each even-numbered year
• GOL 195-73A:  Valley and Ridge Province (1 credit) - Spring Semester (Apr) of each even-numbered year
• GOL 195-74A:  Coastal Plain Province (1 credit) - Spring Semester (Apr) of each odd-numbered year
• GOL 195-75A:  Northern Virginia, Western Maryland, and Eastern West Virginia (2 credits) - Summer Semester (June)
• GOL 195-76A:  Environmental Geology of the Richmond area, Virginia (1 credit) - Summer Semester (June)
• GOL 195-77A:  Seneca Rocks area, West Virginia (2 credits) - Summer Semester (June)

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"It is our collective and individual responsibility to protect and nuture the global family, to support its weaker members and to preserve and tend to the environment in which we live." - The Dalai Lama

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North shore of Prince Edward Island, Canada (body of water shown is the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the outcrops are Pennsylvanian strata known as the Mississippian Pictou Group)

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"A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature.  It is earth's eye;  looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature." -           Henry David Thoreau

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Lake McDonald, Glacier National Park, MT

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"This grand show is eternal.  It is always sunrise somewhere;  the dew is never all dried  at once;  a shower is forever falling;  vapor is ever rising.  Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls."  -  John Muir

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Mount Rainier (a composite volcano within the Cascade Range) from Puget Sound, WA

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"That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics." - Aldo Leopold  

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Southeastern shore of Acadia National Park,  Mt. Desert Island,  ME, showing outcrops of Devonian granites

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"And what is a fundamental precept but one that serves all generations?  An enduring environmental ethic will aim to preserve not only the health and freedom of our species, but access to the world in which the human spirit was born." - E. O. Wilson, The Diversity of Life, 1992

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Links:                

• Geological Society of America
• National Association of Geoscience Teachers 
• Society of Sigma Xi
• Society of Sigma Gamma Epsilon
• United States Geological Survey 
• National Park Service (USA)
• Commonwealth of Virginia
• Virginia State Parks
• Virginia Division of Mines, Minerals, and Energy 
• Virginia Department of Environmental Quality
• Virginia Institute of Marine Science
• Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation
• National Wildlife Federation
• The Nature Conservancy
• National Parks and Conservation Association
• Virginia Sierra Club
• Greenpeace International
• Natural Resources Defense Council 
• Amnesty International 
• Habitat for Humanity International
• American Civil Liberties Union 
• Freedom House
• Richmond Peace Education Center
• Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors
• Center on Conscience and War 
• The Carter Center
• The Carnegie Endowment Institute for Peace
• Doctors without Borders
• American Rivers Association 
• James River Association
• Mattaponi-Pamunkey Rivers Association 
• Topographic maps
• Road maps
• Earthwatch Institute
• The Mammoth Site of Hot Springs, SD
• Old Town Canoe Company
• Mad River Canoe Company
• Wenonah Canoe
• The American Family Immigration History Center at Ellis Island, NY
• Parks Canada

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"Amid all the revolutions of the globe the economy of Nature has been uniform, and her laws are the only things that have resisted the general movement.  The rivers and the rocks, the seas, and the continents have been changed in all their parts;  but the laws which direct those changes, and the rules to which they are subject, have remained invariably the same."  - John Playfair, Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory, 1802

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Sunset beyond the Laurentian Mountains as seen across the St. Lawrence River from Riviére du Loup, Québec, Canada

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"Come with me," the river said, "close your eyes and quiet your limbs and float with me into the wonder and mystery of the canyons, see the unknown and the little known, look upon the stone gods face to face, see Medusa, drink my waters, hear my song, feel my power, come along and drift with me toward the distant, ultimate and legendary sea ...". - Edward Abbey, Beyond the Wall, 1971

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Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta, Canada (note the beautiful, u-shaped, glacial valley)

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"It is our task in our time and in our generation to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours." - John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1963

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The Snake River and the Grand Tetons, WY (note the point bar in the river and the river terraces in the middle distance)

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"There is grandeur in this view of life, ... whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed laws of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved." -  Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species, 1859

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Bow Lake, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada (note the glacial cirques and talus slopes)

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Peyto Lake and the u-shaped Mistaya River Valley, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada (note the westwardly tilted Cambrian strata [and Mount Mistaya] comprising the overthrust block of the Simpson Pass Thrust)

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This website was created by David H. Walz in January 2004 and is updated regularly.  Web links reflect interests and commitments of the author only. All photographs shown were taken by the author; please respect his professional and personal rights.          

"... that this nation ... shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth." -        Abraham Lincoln, from the Gettysburg Address, 1863  

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