Taormina Lepore, foreground, who has low vision, walks with a white cane during an accessible field trip to the San Andreas Fault organized by the International Association of Geoscience Diversity Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024, in San Bernadino, Calif. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun)Michele Cook, a professor and geoscientist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, speaks next to Kate Scharer, a research geologist with the Earthquake Science Center of the U.S. Geological Survey while signing in American Sign Language during an accessible field trip to the San Andreas Fault organized by the International Association of Geoscience Diversity Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024, in San Bernadino, Calif. Cooke is also partially deaf. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun)Attendees walk during an accessible field trip to the San Andreas Fault organized by the International Association of Geoscience Diversity Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024, in San Bernadino, Calif. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun)Attendees walk to board a tour bus during an accessible field trip to the San Andreas Fault organized by the International Association of Geoscience Diversity Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024, in San Bernadino, Calif. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun)Kate Scharer, a research geologist with the Earthquake Science Center of the U.S. Geological Survey, center, speaks in a meeting during an accessible field trip to the San Andreas Fault organized by the International Association of Geoscience Diversity Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024, in San Bernadino, Calif. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun)Grace Telfer, left, and Anita Marshall, a geoscience education researcher at the University of Florida, operate a drone allowing others to survey the San Andreas Fault during an accessible field trip organized by the International Association of Geoscience Diversity Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024, in San Bernadino, Calif. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun)Bushra Hussaini, who works at the American Museum of Natural History, stands with Anita Marshall, a geoscience researcher at the University of Florida, as they operate a drone used to help others survey the San Andreas Fault during an accessible field trip organized by the International Association of Geoscience Diversity Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024, in San Bernadino, Calif. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun)Jennifer Piatek, a planetary geologist at Central Connecticut State University, is helped off the bus during an accessible field trip to the San Andreas Fault organized by the International Association of Geoscience Diversity Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024, in San Bernadino, Calif. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun)The shirt of Ian Castro, a doctoral candidate in geoscience education at the University of Cincinnati, is seen during an accessible field trip to the San Andreas Fault organized by the International Association of Geoscience Diversity Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024, in San Bernadino, Calif. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun)Shirley Jackson, an adjunct professor in general geology at York College, left, stands with Wilnelly Ventura-Valentin, and Jennifer Piatek, a planetary geologist at Central Connecticut State University as they watch a drone used to allow people to survey the San Andreas Fault during an accessible field trip organized by the International Association of Geoscience Diversity Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024, in San Bernadino, Calif. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun)Kate Scharer, a research geologist with the Earthquake Science Center of the US Geological Survey, left, walks with Shirley Jackson, an adjunct professor of general geology at York College, during an accessible field trip to the San Andreas Fault organized by the International Association of Geoscience Diversity Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024, in San Bernadino, Calif. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun)Jennifer Piatek, a planetary geologist at Central Connecticut State University, speaks with attendees on stones found during an accessible field trip to the San Andreas Fault organized by the International Association of Geoscience Diversity Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024, in San Bernadino, Calif. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun)
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Taormina Lepore, foreground, who has low vision, walks with a white cane during an accessible field trip to the San Andreas Fault organized by the International Association of Geoscience Diversity Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024, in San Bernadino, Calif. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun)
