Steven Semken

Ph.D., 1989, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M.S., 1984, University of California, Los Angeles
S.B., 1980, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Faculty member at Dine College, tribal college of the Navajo Nation, 1988-2003.
Past-President, National Association of Geoscience Teachers.

Place-based and cross-cultural geoscience teaching and learning
Native American ethnogeology
Use of instructional technologies in geoscience teaching
Regional and environmental geology of the Colorado Plateau and American Southwest

Semken, S., 2005, Sense of place and place-based introductory geoscience teaching for American Indian and Alaska Native undergraduates, Journal of Geoscience Education, v. 53, no. 2.

Hahn, D., Brem, S.K., and Semken, S., 2005, Exploring the social, moral, and temporal qualities of pre-service teachers' narratives of evolution, Journal of Geoscience Education, v. 53, no. 4, in press.

Wilson, D., Aster, R., West, M., Ni, J., Grand, S., Gao, W., Baldridge, W.S., Semken, S., and Patel, P., 2005, Lithospheric structure of the Ro Grande Rift, Nature, v. 433, p. 851-855.

Semken, S., 2003, Black rocks protruding up: the Navajo volcanic field, in Lucas, S.G., Semken, S.C., Berglof, W.R., and Ulmer-Scholle, D.S., eds., 2003, Geology of the Zuni Plateau: New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook 54, p. 133-138.

Blackhorse, A., Semken, S., and Charley, P., 2003, A Navajo-English thesaurus of geological terms, in Lucas, S.G., Semken, S.C., Berglof, W.R., and Ulmer-Scholle, D.S., eds., 2003, Geology of the Zuni Plateau: New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook 54, p. 103-108.