Wayne Henderson

My name is Wayne Henderson and I have been a GCC instructor since January 2003. I have taught oceanography lecture/lab, physical geology lecture/lab, historical geology, natural disasters, and environmental geology classes. I also taught Oceanography 115 as a Study Abroad class in Bali, Indonesia for four weeks in the summer of 2015. I am also a full-time lecturer of Geological Sciences at California State University, Fullerton (CSUF).

I have studied paleontology, sedimentology, stratigraphy, paleoclimatology, and geoscience education. I completed a BS in Geology and a BA in History at The George Washington University in 1997, an MS in Geology from Louisiana State University in 1999. I have done field research in New Zealand on paleoclimatology of lake beds; Australia, Brazil, Greece and southern California on geoscience education; Louisiana on Holocene shell beds, Alaska on stratigraphy, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Washington, DC on saukiid trilobites, and the Death Valley area of California on the stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Carrara Formation.

I have a wife and three kids and a decent number of pets currently numbering three dogs, two cats, two Kune Kune pigs, one African Grey Parrot, one Sulcata tortoise, six cockatiels, four red-eared slider turtles, ten chickens, and two fish tanks (and yes my kids thinks we do not have enough pets). You will see them sometimes pop up in the class lectures.

Besides ocean and wildlife conservation my main charity is Together We Rise (TWR) which helps foster children and was founder by a former student of mine back in 2008.