After
NOVA Geoblog, after
Magma Cum Laude, who did it after
Woman Scientist...ahh, geologists are nothing if not happy to be traveling. And it has been awhile since we had a good meme! Of course, I'm in...
I spent a fair amount of time close to home, but when you live in Central California, that means a lot of nice places to visit! In January, it was a wintertime journey to Yosemite Valley...
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In February, it was our field studies trip to a rather snowy Death Valley National Park. From Dante's View, one looks down a vertical mile to the lowest point in the western hemisphere, near Badwater (-286 feet).
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By March, the Sierra Nevada foothills were blooming; these are
poppy fields in the Merced River Canyon, seen during our field studies trip in the southern Mother Lode.
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In April, it was a return trip to Yosemite, to check out
one of the biggest rockfalls in years, at Ahwiyah Rock near Half Dome. Luckily no one was hurt in this one
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Didn't do much in May, because we were planning our biggest trip of the year, a
field study of the Hawaiian Islands. 25 students joined us on an exploration of the Big Island, Maui, and Kauai. Below, a view of Mauna Loa from the flanks of Mauna Kea, at 9,000...which is cold in the morning!
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