TEACHING:
Ms. Workman Ford teaches a wide range of courses, including Field Methods in Geology, Natural Disasters and Earth Resources, Planet Earth through Time, Introductory Earth & Life Science, Sedimentology, and Environmental Science. Additionally, she teaches a Physical Geology class for the State Center Community College District.
RESEARCH:
Ms. Workman Ford's research interests include late Cretaceous - early Tertiary Moreno Formation in the Panoche and Tumey Hills of central California, west of Interstate 5 where vertebrate fauna are preserved. Of the few dinosaur fossils found in California , most are from the Moreno Formation. Mosasaurs and plesiosaurs, in particular, were once commonplace in this area. Their departure from this area, as well as worldwide, remains somewhat of a mystery. Determining the stratigraphic relationships of these marine reptile and dinosaur specimens relative to the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary may provide valuable insight to their ultimate demise.
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