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Field trips are a critical and integral component of geoscience education. They provide students with unequaled opportunities for exploring and understanding geological principles first-hand, outside of the classroom, at real-world scales.

Such trips, however, are expensive endeavors. While students themselves bear a portion of the costs, we rely on grants and donations to cover the majority of the trip's costs. This helps to ensure an affordable experience open to all students.

Our Florida field trip is being funded by a generous anonymous donor, Shell, Chevron/Texaco, and various individual contributors to the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences' Field Excursion Endowment Fund.

If you are interested in helping support future field trips, please visit the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences' Giving Opportunities page and consider donating to our Field Excursion Fund.

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Month: May 2017

Alternative Energy

All around the Texas panhandle and into Oklahoms and New Mecxico are some of the largest US Wind Farms. We drove through mile after mile of wind production, which is now a significant source of pier in the area. Juxtaposed with this we’re many petroleum fields, though most sat idle as we drove by.

 

Posted on 2017-May-04Categories 2017 Southwest US Field TripLeave a comment on Alternative Energy

Feeling Parched

Today covered a variety of evaporites. Our first stop being Great Salt Plains State Park, to view a modern evaporite environment. It was still a bit too wet to venture very far out onto the flats, however, we found plenty to explore nearshore. Followed up with visits to outcrops of Permian evaporites further west in Oklahoma.

Posted on 2017-May-012017-May-04Categories 2017 Southwest US Field TripLeave a comment on Feeling Parched
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