David Schwartz is currently the only full time Geology and Oceanography Instructor at Cabrillo College in Aptos California. He is also the Program Chair of the Earth and Space Science Departments. He is a member of the Science Panel for the Elkhorn Slough Tidal Wetland Watch whose mission is to resolve erosion problems and preserve wetlands in Elkhorn Slough which is part of a national estuarine sanctuary. He is also a member the Elkhorn Slough Paleoecology Working Group whose mission is to share and collaborate on research projects in order to help better understand past and future conditions of Elkhorn Slough

David Schwartz has also been working with faculty and students from San Lorenzo Valley High School (SLVHS) for the past 10 years and is a member of the SLVHS Watershed Academy Advisory Committee. He mentors SLVHS students in Beach Profiling research projects, assists with their Geographic Information Systems (GIS) data entry and gives lectures and leads field trips to the Environmental Science A.P. students.

He obtained a B.S. degree in Geology and Mineralogy from The Ohio State University in the spring of 1979. For the next 10 months he worked as a Water Quality Technician for the Environmental Protection Agency in Columbus Ohio. David earned a M.S. degree in Marine Geology from San Jose State University in 1983. His emphasis is in marine geology, estuarine evolution and micropaleontology. His masters thesis on the Geologic History of Elkhorn Slough was published in "Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science" in 1986 and again in "Changes In A California Estuary" in 2002. David began teaching Physical Geology, California Geology and Oceanography part time at Hartnell College in Salinas, Ca in 1984. He also taught several introductory geology courses at San Jose State University in 1984 and 1985. In the Fall of 1986 David became a full time member of the Cabrillo College faculty.