Scott Lydon

Committed lecturer with several years in mentoring and educating upper-level undergraduate students. Worked with full-time faculty to supplement programs to prepare students for success in career or graduate school. Created engaging lectures and activities to explain and demonstrate difficult concepts.

• Academic Approach to Understanding Gangs, KSBW News, May 2011, http://www.ksbw.com/video/28133521/detail.html
• Tagging A City's Identity, Monterey County Weekly, July 2011, http://www.montereycountyweekly.com/news/2011/jul/28/tagging-citys-identity/

• Paclim, 2019, Impacts on carbon content and ecosystem functioning of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta's wetlands during the last ~6,000 years
• Society for California Archaeology, 2018, Ramifications of the Little Ice Age on the Spanish and Indian Missions of the Monterey Bay
• California Missions Foundation, 2018, Illuminating Alta California Culture And Land-Use: A Partnership Between Historical Cartography And 21st Century Geographic Information Systems
• American Geophysical Union, 2015, Paleoclimate Since Marine Isotope Stage 5C (C. 96 KA) From Baldwin Lake, San Bernardino Mountains, Lakes of the World
• Summer Program from Undergraduate & Graduate Research (SPUR), University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), 2013, Climate Change & The Fremont People: A Pollen Proxy Analysis of Climate During the Past 1000 Years at Denise Lake, Utah
• Society for American Archaeology, 77th Annual Meeting, 2012, An Archaeology of Graffiti: A General History of Street Murals and Graffiti in Salinas, California
• Latina/o Archaeology Symposium, 2012, An Archaeology of Graffiti: A General History of Street Murals and Graffiti in Salinas, California

• High-resolution sedimentological and geochemical records of three marshes in the San Francisco Bay, California, Quaternary International, 602, 49-65, E. Fard, L. Brown, S. Lydon, J. Smol, G.M. MacDonald, M.E. Kirby, E.J. Rhodes, L. Stevens, E. Silveira, A. Whitaker, 2021
• Evidence for orbital and North Atlantic climate forcing in alpine Southern California between 125 and 10 ka from multi-proxy analyses of Baldwin Lake, Quaternary Science Reviews, 167, 47-62, K.C. Glover, G.M. MacDonald, M.E. Kirby, E.J. Rhodes, L. Stevens, E. Silveira, A. Whitaker, S. Lydon, 2017
• Biodiversity Shifts at an Ecosystem-scale, Reviews in Geophysics, DF Cusack, J. Karpman, D. Ashdown, Q. Cao, M. Ciochina, S. Halterman, S. Lydon, A. Neupane, 2016

• Center for the Advancement of Teaching (CAT) Fellowship, UCLA, 2019, 2020 (2x)
• Paclim Early Career Scientist Support Grant, 2019
• Chancellor's Doctoral Scholar Award, California State University, 2017-2018
• Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship, UCLA, 2017-2018
• National Science Foundation (NSF) funded summer course, Camp Paleon, University of Notre Dame Environmental Research Center, 2016
• Graduate Summer Research Mentorship Award, UCLA Graduate Division, 2016
• UCLA Department of Geography Travel Grant, 2016
• University of California White Mountain Research Center Graduate Grant, 2016
• La Kretz Conservation Center Graduate Award, UCLA, 2015
• Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship, UCLA, 2014-2015
• Sally Casanova, California Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, 2012
• Outstanding Tutor, 2012, Communications Department, California State University, East Bay
• Distinction In Major, 2011, California State University, Monterey Bay
• Silver Community Service Award, 2009, City of Seaside
• Dean's List, 2008, California State University, Monterey Bay
• Sea Service Deployment Ribbon, 2003, US Navy
• National Defense Service Medal, 2002, US Navy

• Center for the Advancement of Teaching (CAT) Fellowship, UCLA, 2019, 2020 (2x)
• Paclim Early Career Scientist Support Grant,2019
• Chancellor’s Doctoral Scholar Award, California State University, 2017‐2018
• Eugene Cota‐Robles Fellowship, UCLA, 2017‐2018
• National Science Foundation (NSF) funded summer course, Camp Paleon, University of Notre Dame Environmental Research Center, 2016
• Graduate Summer Research Mentorship Award, UCLA Graduate Division, 2016
• UCLA Department of Geography Travel Grant, 2016
• University of California White Mountain Research Center Graduate Grant, 2016
• La Kretz Conservation Center Graduate Award, UCLA, 2015
• Eugene Cota‐Robles Fellowship, UCLA, 2014‐2015
• Sally Casanova, California Pre‐Doctoral Fellowship, 2012
• Outstanding Tutor, 2012, Communications Department, California State University, East Bay
• Distinction In Major, 2011, California State University, Monterey Bay
• “Silver” Community Service Award, 2009, City of Seaside
• Dean’s List, 2008 California State University, Monterey Bay
• Sea Service Deployment Ribbon, 2003, US Navy
• National Defense Service Medal, 2002, US Navy