ESCI 322 – Going Across Southern California
Students in 322 go on a geology trip across southern California led by their professor Cin-Ty Lee and graduate student Hehe Jiang. This is a mid-term field trip that the […]
Born in Taiwan, but raised in southern California on a grove of orange trees, surrounded by hills of rounded granite blocks and coastal sage scrub. Fell in love as a kid with the snakes, the mountain lions, coyotes, birds, lizards, plants and rocks around me. In college, strayed a little towards becoming an architect, but eventually returned to my heart - geology.
Students in 322 go on a geology trip across southern California led by their professor Cin-Ty Lee and graduate student Hehe Jiang. This is a mid-term field trip that the […]
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ESCI 334 is one of the Earth Science department’s capstone undergraduate courses. The field trip takes us to a location near San Ysidro, New Mexico, because of the easy access […]
How do you get water back into the mantle? Serpentinites, of course! The main source of water in magmatic arcs like the Cascades comes from altered oceanic lithosphere. Interaction of […]
A new micro-XRF element mapper (Horiba XGT 7000) has been installed on the third floor. This instrument excites atoms using a Rhodium x-ray source and measures the energy of the re-emitted x-rays […]