These images on the front page of our website (in the lower-left box) are photos from WWU courses. Many are taken on field excursions of one sort or another. They are listed below, with captions where available. Clicking an image will bring up a full-size version.
| Photo (link to large version) |
Caption |
Course |
Date |
Taken By |
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Dr. Scott Babcock is discussing an igneous specimen (Golden Horn Batholith?) |
Petrology (407a then, now 406) |
5/12/02 |
Dave Hirsch |
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Students are examining the "polliwog agmatite" |
Petrology (407a then, now 406) |
5/11/02 |
Dave Hirsch |
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Students having lunch at Washington Pass |
Petrology (407a then, now 406) |
5/11/02 |
Dave Hirsch |
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Taking a break in the shade (what there is of it) near Vaseaux Lake, BC |
Field Camp (410) |
6/28/03 |
Dave Hirsch |
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Graduate students hard at work examining Cretaceous strata of the Nanaimo Group, Stuart Island, WA, as part of a class field trip. |
Graduate Student Seminar (595) |
10/01 |
Bernie Housen |
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Field partners measuring the strike and dip of foliation in high-grade rocks of the Shuswap Complex, BC |
Field Camp (410) |
8/3/03 |
Dave Hirsch |
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First day of the Olalla project - locating ourselves |
Field Camp (410) |
6/24/03 |
Dave Hirsch |
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Group photo at Artists' Point, Mt. Baker. |
Glacial Geology (440/540) |
10/5/2003 |
Doug Clark |
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En echelon veins at Cattle Point, San Juan Islands. |
Advanced Structural Geology (550) |
Fall 2000 |
Gary Petro |
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Hiking down Railroad Grade glacial moraine, Easton Glacier, SW side of Mt. Baker. |
Glacial Geology (440/540) |
9/28/03 |
Doug Clark |
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Group photo near Conness Peak in the Sierra Nevada |
Field Camp (410) |
7/2003 |
Doug Clark |
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Mineralogy students playing a mineral game. |
Mineralogy (306) |
2/28/06 |
Dave Hirsch |
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Group photo following arduous climb above East Fork Rock Creek, Montana. |
Field Camp (410) |
7/29/04 |
Dave Hirsch |
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Students examining the Cloudburst quartz diorite at Cheakamus Canyon Overlook in British Columbia. |
Petrology (406) |
5/21/06 |
Dave Hirsch |
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Lisa McAvoy underneath a glacier on a field trip to Kulshan Caldera |
Physical Geology (211) |
10/8/06 |
Jansen Hillis |
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Group photo at Nairn Falls, BC, standing on agmatite of the Coast Plutonic Complex. |
Petrology (406) |
5/21/06 |
Dave Hirsch |
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Pete Stelling demonstrating exsolution with Mentos and Diet Coke. |
N/A (community outreach) |
Unknown |
Nick Solberg |
