Dr. Lisa Gilbert is the Department Chair of Geology, Oceanography and Environmental Science and a 2024-2025 Stanford EPIC fellow. She has been teaching for more than 20 years and is committed to making the Earth sciences more welcoming, relevant, and joyful for all. She holds an A.B. degree in Earth Sciences from Dartmouth College and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Washington in Oceanography, where she specialized in Marine Geology and Geophysics and visited the seafloor in Alvin.
Spring 2025
GEOL-20: Historical Geology (4 units)
OCEAN-10-03: Intro Oceanography (4 units)
OCEAN-30: Monterey Bay and Canyon (1 unit)
Fall 2025
GEOL-10-01: Physical Geology (4 units)
GEOL-10-02: Physical Geology (4 units)
GEOL-10-03: Physical Geology (4 units)
GEOL-28: Field Methods of Earth & Envir Sci (1 unit)
OCEAN-20: Field Studies in Oceanography (4 units)
Spring 2026
ES-10: Intro Environmental Science (3 units)
GEOL-27: Field Geology of Pinnacles (1 unit)
OCEAN-10-03: Intro Oceanography (4 units)
Fall 2024 (tentative Fall 2026)
GEOL-10-01: Physical Geology (4 units)
GEOL-10-02: Physical Geology (4 units)
GEOL-30: Field Geology of Big Sur (1 unit)
OCEAN-20: Field Studies in Oceanography (4 units)
Nagy, E.A. and L.A. Gilbert, (2021), Building Community College Leadership Through Geoscience Faculty Development, New Directions for Community Colleges, 195, 185-198, https://doi.org/10.1002/cc.20476
Hung*, C., L.A. Gilbert, D.A.H. Teagle, D. Craw, and R.A. Wobus, (2021). Features of seafloor hydrothermal alteration in metabasalts of mid-ocean ridge origin from the Chrystalls Beach Complex, New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, DOI:10.1080/00288306.2020.1803925
Gilbert, L.A., R. Teasdale, and C.A. Manduca (2020). A New Vision of Sustainability in Earth Science Education, Eos, 101, DOI:10.1029/2020EO146424.
Gilbert, L.A. (2020). Empowering Students to Act, Perspectives on Earth and Space Science Educational Research, 1(3).
Egger, A.E., M.Z. Bruckner, S.J. Birnbaum, and L.A. Gilbert, (2019). Developing Effective Interdisciplinary Curricular aterials, in Interdisciplinary Teaching about Earth and the Environment for a Sustainable Future, Association of Environmental Sciences and Studies Book Series, Springer ISBN: 978-3-030-03272-2, 45-68, DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-03273-9
Gilbert, L.A., D. Gross, and K. Kreutz (2019). Developing Undergraduate Students’ Systems Thinking Skills with an InTeGrate Module, Journal of Geoscience Education, 67:1, 34-49, DOI: 10.1080/10899995.2018.1529469 (COVER ARTICLE)
Gragg, R.D.S., E.R. Iverson, H. Brethauer-Gay, J. Warford, L.A. Gilbert, K. Sheriff, C.A. Manduca, (2019). Impact of InTeGrate Teaching Materials on Student Geoscience Interests, Literacy and Learning Outcomes at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Earth Educators’ Rendezvous.
Iverson, E., D. Steer, L.A. Gilbert, K. Kastens, K. O’Connell, and C.A. Manduca, (2019). Measuring Literacy, Attitudes, and Capacities to Solve Societal Problems in Interdisciplinary Teaching about Earth and the Environment for a Sustainable Future, Association of Environmental Sciences and Studies Book Series, Springer, ISBN: 978-3-030-03272-2, 91-119, DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-03273-9
Gilbert, L.A., L. Crispini, P. Tartarotti, and M.L. Bona* (2018). Permeability Structure of the Lava-Dike Transition of 15 My Old Oceanic Crust Formed at the East Pacific Rise, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 19(9), 3555-3569, DOI:10.1029/2018GC007696
Manduca, C.A., L.A. Gilbert, R.S. Gragg, E.A.R. Iverson, R.H. Macdonald, D.A. McConnell, and D. Steer, (2018). Community-Based Research Teams: Examples from On the Cutting Edge and InTeGrate Projects, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting #ED11B-04.
*undergraduate student co-author