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David Sigurdson
Professor of Earth Sciences
E-Mail: dsigurdson@csudh.edu

EDUCATION
East Los Angeles Junior College, A.A. Geology, June 1958
California State College, Los Angeles, B.S. Geology, December 1967.
University of California at Riverside, M.S. Geological Sciences, June 1969, Ph.D. Geological Sciences, May 1974.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Summer 1953, Geologist's assistant, North Range Mining Company.
Summer 1954, Minning claims inspector's helper, Ontario Department of Mines.
Summer 1955, Geologist's assistant, M.W. Bartley, Consulting Geologist, Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada.
July 1958-July 1959, Chemical laboratory technician, Tretolite Company of Calif. (Petrochemicals).
Jan. 1961-Jan. 1963,Military Service, Soldier Scientists Chemical and electronics, U.S. Army Transportation Reserach Command, Fort Eustis, Virginia.
May 1960-Jan. 1961, and
Aug. 1963-Jan.1965, Chemical laboratory technician, Los Angeles Chemical Co.
Summer 1966 and 1967, Chainman, Los Angeles County Road Department.
Sept. 1967-Dec. 1967, Teaching Assistant, Calif. State College at Los Angeles.
Summer 1968, Research Assistant, Deep Sea Drilling Project, U.C. Riverside.
Sept. 1972-Present, Professor of Earth Sciences, California State University Dominguez Hills, teaching courses in Physical and Historical Geology, Mineralogy, Optical Mineralogy, Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology, Geochemistry, Ore Deposits, and Earth Sciences for Teachers.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Structure of Sediments Under the Salton Sea, 1971. Cordilleran Section Geological Society of America, Riverside, CA. With Tsvi Meidav and Robert V. Sharp.

Marine Seismic Profiling in the Salton Sea Area, 1972, U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report, Menlo Prk, CA. With Robert V. Sharp and Tsvi Meidav.

Paragenesis and Fluid Inclusion Studies at the Silver Dyke Mine, Mineral County, Nevada, 1974. Cordilleran Section Geological Society of America, Las Vegas.

Paragenesis and Fluid Inclusion Thermometry of a Ferberite-Bearing contact Metasomatic Deposit: Tungsten Jim Mine, Custer County, Idaho, 1975. Cordilleran Section Geological Society of America, L.A. With Edmond F. Lawrence.

Mineral Paragenesis and Fluid Inclusion Thermometry at Four Tungsten Deposits in the Western U.S.A., 1976, 25TH International Geological Congress, abstract v.3, p.813-814. With Edmond F. Lawrence.

Tungsten-Mercury-Antimony Deposits in a Triassic Reef, Stillwater Range, Churchill County, Nevada, 1977, Proceedings of the AIME Pacific Southwest Minerals Conference. With Edmond F. Lawrence and Richard D. Knox.

Kelso Dunes and the Providence Mountains Area, 1990, Field Trip Guide Book - Published by California Desert Studies Center, California State University. With Dr. Glenn Stewart and Constance Cameron.

High-Resolution Reflection Steismic Profiling of the Palos Verdes Fault Zone in Los Angeles Harbor, 1994, Poster Session, Annual Meeting of the Southern California Earthquake Center, Temecula, CA. With Dr. Robert D. Francis, Michael Morgan and William Mah.

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