Callan Bentley

Annandale

Geology

Piedmont Virginia Community College

Callan Bentley is an associate professor of geology at Piedmont Virginia Community College in Charlottesville, Virginia. He is the author of the geology blog Mountain Beltway and co-author of the free, online text"book" Historical Geology. Callan is a past-president of the Geo2YC division of NAGT, as well as the Geological Society of Washington.

Workshop Leader, Webinar Participant, Website Contributor

Website Content Contributions

Course Modules (2), Activities (4), Course (1), Essays (2), Conference Presentations (5), Other Contributions (7)

Course Modules (2)

Unit 3: Geologic Record of Past Climate part of Carbon, Climate, and Energy Resources
Students will be introduced to a few of the different methods used in paleoclimatology, including isotopic ratios as paleotemperature proxies. They will investigate the greenhouse gas connections of two ancient ...

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Unit 2: The Carbon Cycle part of Carbon, Climate, and Energy Resources
Students will explore the different aspects of the carbon cycle on Earth. This includes the original source of all the carbon on our planet, the near ubiquity of carbon, the six principle reservoirs of carbon in ...

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Activities (4)

The Panama Passageway: Using the PBDB to constrain the timing and extent of the The Great American Biotic Interchange part of Introductory Courses:Activities
Students learn how to use the online Paleobiology Database to map changes in the distribution of fossil vertebrates in the Americas through time. They will generate distribution maps for several key fossil groups ...

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Course (1)

GOL 135: Field Studies in Geology - Geology of the Billy Goat Trail part of Geoscience in Two-year Colleges:Courses
One-day field trip course with pre-trip reading and post-trip essay. This field trip will examine the geology of Maryland's Bear Island, considering the metamorphic and igneous rocks exposed by the river, ...

Essays (2)

Callan Bentley, Northern Virginia Community College part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Teaching About Earth Online Workshop:Essays
From your experience, what practices make for excellent online Earth Science learning? Interactive, rich, user-driven exploration of real geoscience data. Students should get opportunities to get geoscience ...

Geology at NOVA: Important ideas that are failing to reach everyone part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Broadening Access to the Earth and Environmental Sciences:Essays
Callan Bentley, Math, Science and Engineering, Northern Virginia Community College Part I: No plan for minorities, and the data show it At Northern Virginia Community College's Annandale campus, we have no ...

Conference Presentations (5)

Using fossils of the Paleobiology Database (PBDB) To Explore the Tectonic Linkage of the Americas part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2018:Program:Poster Sessions:Friday
In this poster, we describe and demonstrate a student activity we developed utilizing the Paleobiology Database's (PBDB's) user-friendly "Navigator" interface. The activity has students to ...

Other Contributions (7)

Supporting Minority Students at Northern Virginia Community College part of Integrate:Program Design:Increase Diversity:Supporting Minority Students
We are a large, multi-campus community college in the suburban fringe of a major metropolitan area (Washington, D.C.). We grant A.S. degrees in Science (among many other degrees), and so any student who intends to major in geology would first get an A.S. with us, then transfer to a four-year college for their B.S. degree in geology.

Communities

Member of the National Association of Geoscience Teachers
Eastern Section, Geo2YC: The Two-Year College Division
Earth Educators Rendezvous 2019
July 2019 Earth Educators Rendezvous 2018
July 2018 Earth Educators Rendezvous 2017
July 2017 Teach the Earth
SAGE 2YC Cohort 2 Change Agents
Geo2YC Community
NAGT All

Workshop Leader

SAGE 2YC 2018-19 DC Metro Workshop
June 2019Marine Geology Using GEODE

Workshop Participant (9 workshops)

Google Earth for Onsite and Distance Education (GEODE)
July 2018 Neutralizing the Politicization of Climate Science and Energy Policy
July 2017 ITG 2017 Online Teaching Workshop
May 2017

Webinar Participant

ITG Scaling Up to Program Scale at 2YC webinar
March 2015 Presenter