14655 Betz Lane, Red Bluff, CA  USA Phone: 530-529-4890 Fax: 530-529-6441 E-mail: rgdeike@att.net
Field trip on Maine geology	CAREER SUMMARY Ruth Deike is an accomplished earth scientist and earth science educator. In three decades of research with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), she has become a world-recognized expert in geologic and chemical relationships between water and rocks in natural environments. She has founded three non-profit organizations to educate the public; produced several videos for teachers on earth science in urban environments and the seashore; developed the earth science education program, 'Become a Rock Detective' and has taught it to thousands of students.
EDUCATION B.S., Geology and Mineralogy, Pennsylvania State University M.S., Geology, George Washington University	Geology field trip for elementary school teachers
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS American Geophysical Union  Geological Society of America  National Science Teachers Association  Society for Sedimentary Geology  National Association for Geology Teachers  Association of Women Geoscientists Maine Science Teachers Association California Science Teachers Association	AWARDS AND HONORS U.S. Geological Survey Special Achievement Award  Mid-Atlantic Marine Education Association Certificate of Appreciation (For 10 years of student and teachers at-sea marine geology field trips) Maine Science Teachers Association Phillip Marcoux Award to a non-classroom educator who has made a significant impact on science education in Maine
SELECTED RESEARCH  AND EARTH SCIENCE EDUCATION PUBLICATIONS Deike, R.G., 1969. Relations of jointing to orientation of solution cavities in limestone of central  Pennsylvania: American Journal of Science. b. 267, p. 1230-1248. Hanshaw, B.B., Back, William, and Deike R.G., 1971. A geochemical hypothesis for dolomitization  by ground water: Economic Geology, v. 66, no. 5, p. 710-724. (Ruth did minerology and petrology  which allowed comparative isotopic samples to be selected). Deike, Ruth, and Jones, B.F., 1980. Provenance, distribution, and alteration of volcanic sediments in  a saline, alkaline lake: Chapter in, Saline Lakes and Natural Brines, A. Nissenbaum, ed.:  Proceedings at Bat Sheva Seminar, Rehovat, Israel, Elsevier, New York. Deike Ruth G., 1990. (a) Dolomite dissolution rates and possible holocene dedolomitization of  water-bearing units in the Edwards Aquifer, south-central Texas: Journal of Hydrology, v. 112, p.  335-373. Deike, Ruth, G., L. Granina, E. Callender, J.J. McGee, 1997. Formation of ferric iron crusts in  Quaternary Sediments of Lak Baikal, Russia, and implications for paleoclimate: Marine Geology, vol  139 p. 21-46 Deike, Ruth G., First Printing 1998. Stone Wall Secrets Teacher's Guide: Exploring Geology in the Classroom, Tilbury House, Gardiner, Maine. 90 p. Deike, Ruth and McDuffee, Kristen, 2010. Become a Rock Detective:  Volumes 1 and 2, Including Mysteries #1 to  #308,  Rock Detective Geoscience Education, Red Bluff, California, 312 p.	EARTH SCIENCE AND HISTORY VIDEOS FOR TEACHERS "Green Labs", 1994. Introducing an environmental education program designed by James V. O'Connor , Professor of Geology at the University of the District of Columbia, in collaboration with the Audubon Naturalist Society of Maryland. "Teach the Beach", 1993. An introduction to coastal processes, a summer course given by College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Maine taught by James V. O'Connor. "Become an Urban Explorer", 1992. The geology and history of the George Washington Carver Nature Trail, Anacostia Museum, Washington D.C. Based on field trips by James V. O'Connor. "History and Geology of Scenic Landforms within 20 Miles of Washington D.C.", 1992. Field trip design by James V. O'Connor for urban and suburban teachers. "Touching the Living Chesapeake Bay", 1990. Marine geology field trips for teachers aboard the 45-foot sailing ketch, "SEREN". "The Geology of New York City", 1990. Based on the International Geological Congress Field trip T 361, July 1989. "Geology of Great Falls Park, Potomac River, VA and MD", 1987. Based on a National Association of Geoscience Teachers field trip by James V. O'Connor and Brian Tormey, Professor at Penn State University. "Dove Tyme", 1987. A trip aboard the MARYLAND DOVE, a replica of the 16th Century square-rigged Pinnace. The Dove recreates the landing of the first settlers to Maryland in 1634. During the voyage the skipper describes how to sail a square-rigged vessel. "Geology of Squaw Peak, Phoenix, Arizona", 1987. Based on Geoscience Day for elementary students Geological Society of America Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona.