These images on the front page of our website (in the lower-left box) are photos of WWU folks doing research. 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.
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Undergraduate Christy Schaefer uses a velocity meter to measure the the stream velocity of Colony Creek. The data was used to estimate the normal discharge of the creek, which was then compared to flood stage discharge caused by a beaver dam break, that occured upstream several months earlier. (Research project for Geomorphology, Geol 310). |
5/11/2003 |
Gretchen Oldham |
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500 meters of welded ignimbrite are exposed on the south face ofHannegan Peak, in the North Cascades. The fantastic intracaldera deposits of the 3.72 Ma Hannegan Volcanics are reached by a pleasant day hike from Bellingham. Geology of the caldera is the subject of a thesis by Dave Tucker. |
8/2003 |
Patty Weston |
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Graduate students collecting paleomagnetism samples of Cretaceous sedimentary rocks to determine the paleogeography of the Gold Beach terrane, currently located along the S Oregon coast. Work supported by NSF grant EAR-0073888. |
9/2000 |
Bernie Housen |
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Kirk drilling core samples from the Golden Horn batholith, North Cascades, for Gary Petro's M.S. thesis. |
2001 |
Gary Petro |
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Layered Eocene Gabbro near Cutthroat Peak, North Cascades. Part of Gary Petro's thesis area. |
2001 |
Gary Petro |
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MS graduate Phyllis Gregiore measuring section and sampling Triassic redbeds of the Spearfish Formation, Black Hills, Wyoming, for a paleomagnetic study aimed at refining the Apparent Polar Wander Path for North America. Work supported by NSF grant EAR-0073891. |
6/2000 |
Bernie Housen |
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Gigantic andalusite porphyroblast (~ 25 cm) of the Riconada Formation, Picuris Mountains, New Mexico |
6/2003 |
Shannon Petrisor |
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Dennis Feeney sampling sediments at Kulshan Caldera. |
9/12/06 |
Chelsea Feeney |
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Kristin Hill with a gravimeter on the southeastern flank of Mt. Baker. |
7/27/05 |
Mike Johnsen |
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Pete Stelling at the mouth of (active) Akutan Volcano, Alaska. |
Unknown |
John Eichelberger |
