Curriculum Vitae of Martha Schwartz
E-mail: martha@marthaandrick.com
EDUCATION
University of Southern California, 1997, Ph.D., Geophysics. Dissertation: Intensity History of the Earth’s Magnetic Field During the Late Quaternary as Recorded by the Sediments of the Blake/Bahama Outer Ridge, North Atlantic Ocean
California State University, Long Beach, 1984 M.S., Geology (Applied geophysics emphasis) Thesis: Computer Comparison of Dedrifting Versus Tare Removal for Precision Gravity Surveys
University of California, Los Angeles, 1971, California Standard Lifetime Secondary Teaching Credential (in Mathematics, also authorized in physical science and fine arts/music)
Arizona State University, 1966, B.S., Mathematics
EMPLOYMENT
2000- present: Free-lance education consultant, doing (part-time) projects for various organizations, principally involved with school improvement and science and mathematics standards, testing, and curriculum.
1999 – present: Professional Expert and Contract Consultant, Los Angeles County Office of Education (Part time, as of fall 2000) Recent work has been in the area of school improvement and evaluation of mathematics programs.
2000 – 2001: Science Editorial Coordinator, Core Knowledge Foundation (Part time)
1997 – 1999: Research Associate, University of Southern California
1986 to 1999: Lecturer, California State University, Dominguez Hills: Taught a variety of geology courses, both physical (with laboratory) and environmental, a field geophysics semester, as well as developmental mathematics. Taught algebra over instructional cable television for three semesters, and taught two semesters in a special program designed to retrain elementary and secondary teachers in basic earth sciences.
1985 - 1986: Lecturer, California State University, Long Beach. Taught beginning geology, lecture and laboratory. Also team taught (twice, the first time while still a student - a first for the department) a senior/graduate level course in petroleum geophysics - with responsibility for a half-semester unit in seismic data processing.
1981 - 1984: Teaching and research assistant, California State University, Long Beach. Wrote Fortran computer program to calculate the effects of earth tides (caused by the passage of the moon and sun) on precision gravity values. This program was distributed and apparently widely used for a time in industry and by the US military. Nominated for "best graduate student" award.
1965 - 1980: Teacher, Los Angeles Unified School District, mathematics and physical science, both full and part-time, (children were born 1969, 1972 and 1976)
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
American Geophysical Union (GP)
Geological Society of America
Southern California Academy of Science, advisory board (1999-2003)
SELECTED EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITY
Southern California Academy of Sciences, High School Steering Committee
California Mathematics Framework Committee (CFCC)
Instructional Materials Advisory Panel, state of California (mathematics, 1998 and 2000)
Content Review Panel, State Testing and Reporting System (science)
Performance Level Setting Panel State Testing and Reporting System (science)
Los Angeles County Science Fair advisory board
Co-founder Mathematically Correct
E4 (community based education organization) advisory board
Site visitor for the American Association for Liberal Arts
Reader for various federal and state educational grant proposals
Science standards-setting panel, American Board for the Certification of Teacher Excellence
SAMPLE PUBLICATIONS
Benson, L.V., S.P. Lund, J. Burdett, M. Kashgarian, T. Rose, J. Smoot, M. Schwartz, Correlation of late-Pleistocene lake-level oscillations in Mono Lake, California with North Atlantic climate events, Quaternary Research, 49, pp. 1-10, 1997.
Lund, Steve P., and Martha Schwartz, Environmental Factors Affecting Geomagnetic Field Paleointensity Estimates from Sediments, in Qaternary Climates, Environments and Magnetism, Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Martha Schwartz, Steve P. Lund, Douglas E. Hammond, Richard Schwartz, Kathy Wong, Early Sediment Diagenesis on the Blake/Bahama Outer Ridge, N. Atlantic Ocean, and its Effects on Sediment Magnetism, Journal of Geophysical Research, 102, 7903-7914, 1996.
Schwartz, Martha, Steve P. Lund, and Tom Johnson, 1993, Environmental Factors as Complicating Influences in the Recovery of Quantitative Geomagnetic-Field Paleointensity Estimates from Sediments, Geophysical Research Letters, 23, p 2693-2696, 1996.
