The San Bernardino County Museum

Geology Curator To Give Gallery Talk

Chris Sagebiel, curator of geology at the San Bernardino County Museum in Redlands, will give an informal gallery talk at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, March 5. The presentation will focus on the museum’s mineral collections and is free with museum general admission.

The gallery talk is part of a continuing series of presentations by museum staff to provide visitors with more insight about exhibits and current research at the museum. In this talk, Sagebiel will discuss mineral specimens on display at the museum and the processes responsible for their creation, with a focus on igneous processes. He will also reveal plans for new mineral exhibits in the museum’s planned Hall of Geological Wonders.

Chris Sagebiel is a graduate of the University of Texas, where he earned a Masters Degree in Geology with an emphasis on fossil mammals. After working with the Texas Memorial Museum, Texas Parks and Wildlife, and the Texas Archaeological Research Laboratory, he joined the staff at the San Bernardino County Museum as a collections manager in the geological sciences division and currently serves as the museum’s curator of geology. He is pursuing a Ph.D. at the University of California, Riverside in the Graduate Group in Genetics, Genomics, and Bioinformatics, studying an array of extinct mammals from South America.

The San Bernardino County Museum is at the California Street exit from Interstate 10. The museum is open Tuesdays through Sundays and holiday Mondays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $6 (adult), $5 (senior or student) and $4 (child aged 5-12). Children under 5 and Museum Association members are admitted free. Parking is free, and the facility is handicapped-accessible. Lunch, snacks, and beverages are available at the museum’s Garden Café from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. For more information, visit www.sbcountymuseum.org or call (909) 307-2669. / TDD/TTY: (909) 792-1462.