Barrie Bieler

Barrie Bieler
737 Wiget Lane
Walnut Creek CA 94598-4353
(925) 939-6272
email: abieler@astound.net

Fee and mileage charge: $40 for MINERALS IN STEREO which requires special stereo (3-D) projector, screen, and glasses for audience. $20 for all other programs (non-stereo); all mileage 15¢ per mile, round trip.

Equipment needed: Kodak Carousel projector & screen for all programs other than MINERALS IN STEREO.

Length of program: Spontaneous comments from a tray of slides- 20 to 60 minutes.

Advance notice needed: 2 to 4 weeks.

Area traveled: Nominally 60 mile radius of Walnut Creek, except arranged overnight situations.

Programs:

1. MINERALS IN STEREO - Projected 3-D images and how-to descriptions

2. PHOTOGRAPHING MINERALS - (35mm, non-stereo)

3. EARTHQUAKES - Safety, faults, prediction (?), plate tectonics

4. MASS-WASTING - Erosion by gravity

5. RIVER EROSION

6. GLACIERS

7. THE THREE ROCK FAMILIES

8. MAN-MADE GEMSTONES

9. GEOLOGY OF MT. DIABLO - (Contra Costa County)

10. GEOLOGY OF PT. REYES NATIONAL SEASHORE

11. LAND FORMS AT THE PINNACLES NATIONAL MONUMENT

12. VOLCANOES

Barrie Bieler (69 years in 1998) was born and raised in Southern California. He has a B.S. and M.S. in Geology from Cal Tech and a Ph.D. in Mineralogy from Penn State (1955). He worked 2 1/2 years for the USGS, 28-years with the Dow Chemical Co. in technical ceramics and high-temperature chemistry. Since retirement in 1986 he has been teaching geologic and photographic subjects in Adult Education programs.

CFMS Program Manual and Directory, May 2008
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