Photos
Views from Trinity College at the opening reception of European Paleobotany and Palynology Conference 2018 (EPPC Dublin, August 2018).
Got very excited when field work brought me to Florissant National Monument. Check out these Eocene aged conifer trunks! (August, 2018)
Views from soil and leaf sample sites in Rocky Mountain National Park (August, 2018).
With Pando, the Trembling Giant, in Fishlake National Forest. I received permits to sample this [oldest living] organism from the National Forest Service during the summer of 2018!
A panorama of Pando - doesn't even do the size of this extraordinary organism justice. August 2018
Sampling some water from a river in Colorado to bring back to the University of Michigan IsoPaleoLab (Levin & Passey) for 17 and 18-Oxygen analysis.
There were Populus tremuloides galore all the way up the Taos Ski Valley to the base of Taos Resort (July, 2018).
Populus tremuloides showing off their roles as pioneer species in Sunset Volcano National Monument, Arizona (July, 2018).
Snapshots from my time as a Graduate Student Instructor (GSI) for EARTH 202 at Camp Davis (Summer 2018). Shown here are [clockwise] Badlands National Park (South Dakota) and Grand Prismatic in Yellowstone National Park (Wyoming), a view from my GSI cabin at the Field Station itself, and a photo of our lunch spot during the glacier lecture at the base of the saddle between Grand and Middle Teton in Grand Teton National Park (Wyoming). It's so wonderful to be learning about and teaching a discipline with such a strong field component!
A photo of EARTH 202: Introduction to Geology and Environmental Science in the Rockies, at the top of Mt. Ann in Hoback, Wyoming.
On this Pacific Northwest sampling trip, from also sampled o the interior and coast of Oregon, Multnomah Falls and Rockaway Beach respectively. Thuja plicata loves the cool, wet climate of the Pacific Northwest (May 2018).
It is clear here how decimated this forest has been by the drought and recent fires in Montana. In spite of this, I found some happy Thuja plicata living, literally, inside a river of glacial meltwater (May 2018).
A photograph from my soil and Thuja plicata leaf sampling site in Olympic National Park (Washington, May 2018).
With labmate and coworker Molly Ng during collections in Shanghai Botanical Garden. Photo taken by collaborator at Shanghai Botanical Garden, Mo Bian Jin (July, 2017).
Loading the Cavity Ring-Down Spectrometer in the CERG lab for carbon isotope analysis (November, 2016).
Box of conifer samples (November, 2016).
Collecting specimens at the University of Michigan Herbarium (November, 2016).
A few ground samples for isotope analysis (November, 2016).
Examining bedding on a sedimentation/stratigraphy trip with a peer (November, 2013).
With "the Organ Pipes," basalt columns on the side of Mt. Cargill, just outside of Dunedin, in my spare time (May, 2013).
Exploring the geology of Dunedin, New Zealand (February, 2013).
Compiling a soil core in Luquillo Experimental Forest (a Puerto Rican rainforest LTER) during field work (January, 2013).
