BYU-I Geology Department History

“I recall taking field trips virtually every Saturday until the snow was too deep, which in those days was early October. Ed invited my family to join his on a day trip to Teton Canyon before classes started. Steve and Ed took me down Meadow Creek dugway and then south to the end of the road and beyond where we broke an axel and had to hike out. We gave College Motor Pool a topographic map with an X where they could find the vehicle. They had to change the axle in a very awkward position on the hillside. We took a Saturday class trip to Island Park, Hebgen, and Yellowstone. We also took afternoon/evening class trips to the Menan Buttes, the dunes, the Juniper Buttes cinder quarry, and the Civil Defense Caves. Over the next few years Steve and Ed shared many more insights and geologic localities with me, and helped me add new classes to my repertoire. They really helped build the foundation upon which my teaching career was established.”

-Glenn Embree

Ricks College Geology Department Faculty in 1964 (left to right: Ed Williams)

Ricks College Geology Department faculty in 1972 (left to right: Roger Hoggan, Steve Hansen, Glenn, Embree, Ed Williams)

BYU-I Geology Department faculty in 2005 (left to right: Glenn Embree, Dan Moore, Robb Clayton, Bill Little, Mark Lovell, Roger Hoggan)

BYUI Geology Department faculty and staff in 2008 (left to right: Linda Mitchell, Bill Little, Mark Lovell, Ben Jordan, Dan Moore, Robb Clayton, Julie Willis, Forest Gahn, Jeanine Nielson)

Annual Newsletters

Geology Department Newsletter - 2008

Geology Department Newsletter - 2007

Geology Department Newsletter - 2006