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News from the Field!
Photographs from the Summer 2008 expedition to the Sierra Nevada

Day 1: Las Vegas to Death Valley
Day 2: Death Valley to Bishop
Day 3: White Mountains/Bristlecone Pine Preserve
Day 4: Bishop Tuff and the Owens Valley Gorge
Day 5: Long Valley Caldera: Lookout Mountain, Obsidian Dome, Glass Creek Dome
Day 6: Earthquake Fault, Mammoth Mountain, Horseshoe Lake tree kill
Day 7: The Sierra Front: the Hilton Creek Fault and McGee Creek
Day 8: Black Point fissures & Panum Crater
Day 9: Yosemite National Park!!
Day 10: Mono lake, water diversions and engineering
Day 11: Stream guage experiment & Bodie gold mining village
Day 12: Recreation Day!!
Day 13: Geothermal Energy and Hydrothermal Processes
Day 14: Alabama Hills, Manzanar, and Farewell Banquet
Day 15: Return Home via Las Vegas

Take a look at 2007 Sierra trip
And from the 2006 Sierra trip
And from the 2005 trip
And from the 2004 trip
And from the 2003 trip
And from the 2002 trip
"Mount Whitney Massif" Courtesy of Sam Roberts Photography