Powerpoint & script for Discovery Nature Studies
Sample slide from show on landforms: erosional & depositional. Begins with basic difference with bedrock and surficial geology
I didn’t come to geology by natural inclination. I was gently nudged by folks with stronger ‘abiotic talents and tendencies,’ such as Greg Streveler, Dan Bishop, Doug Swanston and Cathy Connor. I still consider myself more undereducated than a naturalist should be with regard to bedrock geology, particularly its chemistry.
But in raw, post-glacial landscapes, and along equally ‘juvenile’ rebounding marine shorelines, surficial geology was quick to grab my attention. These features and processes explain so much about vegetational succession and animal habitats that a student of Southeast nature can scarcely overlook them.
This slide show is the effort of an amateur landforms-watcher—albeit coached by some of the best—to make the subject palatable to students more naturally drawn to stuff like animal poop and charismatic megafauna. A more recent collaboration with retired UAS geology professor Cathy Connor produced Reading Southeast Alaska’s landscape: How bedrock foundations, glaciers, rivers and sea shape the land (2013). This publication, available at Discovery’s Glacier Visitor Center bookstore, goes into more depth, and makes a good text for a Southeast landforms class or unit.
At this slideshow might contain some of the building blocks for your introductory presentation:
● an 18 MB powerpoint with embedded presenters’ notes 
● a script for the above, with slide thumbnails, titled tracking rivers glaciers and beaches 2 MB pdf 
