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Another successful summer in the books…
9 August 2022 - lwf2
Another successful summer in the books…
While we bid a sad farewell to the 2022 REU cohort, we are comforted with knowing that they leave Rice with new skills, new confidences, and have made lasting friendships and professional connections.  Several students will present their research efforts at this years Fall AGU meeting. Others are looking to perhaps return to Rice in […]
Colorado Day 6: Leadville and Mines
22 June 2022 - dw67
Colorado Day 6: Leadville and Mines
  As this was the first time visiting a mine for many of the students, we will get some answers about what they observed…. What was your favorite part of the day? Daniel: For me, it was visiting the National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum and seeing the interesting history of mining in Leadville […]
Day 4 – Mapping Minturn Colorado
17 June 2022 - yp31
Day 4 – Mapping Minturn Colorado
The day dawned warm and sunny.  We left the Eagle River Inn at 9:17am with our Brunton compasses and topographic maps of Minturn, CO  in hand and headed to our first stop called the Holy Cross outlook. We parked by the train tracks nearby and began the 0.60 miles round trip up a steep slope […]
Day 5: St. Mary’s “Glacier”
16 June 2022 - gb53
Day 5: St. Mary’s “Glacier”
At 9 am this Monday morning, the group piled into the van and headed to St. Mary’s Glacier. The goal for today: understand the interactions between glaciers, snowfields, the landscape, and climate change. On the drive, our Ph.D. instructor for the day Zhuoya He explained the importance of glacial melting to human life, including the […]
Colorado Day 3: Beaver Wetlands and Camp Hale
14 June 2022 - vd25
Colorado Day 3: Beaver Wetlands and Camp Hale
By Enzo de Vita Sifontes On the third day of our visit to Colorado, we visited the home of the largest rodents in North America and the best ecosystems engineers. Beavers. An ecosystem is the interaction between a variety of organisms, from bottom to top of the food chain, while they interact in the same […]
RUGS Field Trip to Galveston Island and the Upper Texas Gulf Coast
31 July 2021 - Linda Welzenbach
RUGS Field Trip to Galveston Island and the Upper Texas Gulf Coast

RUGS Field Trip to Galveston Island and the Upper Texas Gulf Coast By Sarah Preston, Christina Stoner (& Juli Morgan) On April 25, after almost a year with no field […]

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EEPS 2021 REU Field trip: Minturn CO- Day 2: Saint Mary’s Glacier
21 June 2021 - Linda Welzenbach
EEPS 2021 REU Field trip:  Minturn CO- Day 2: Saint Mary’s Glacier

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EEPS 2021 REU Field trip: Minturn CO- Day 1: Eagle River & Cross Creek
21 June 2021 - Linda Welzenbach
EEPS 2021 REU Field trip:  Minturn CO- Day 1: Eagle River & Cross Creek

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EEPS 2021 NSF-REU Blog
16 June 2021 - Linda Welzenbach
EEPS 2021 NSF-REU Blog

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The most unattainable part of Earth
6 May 2020 - Mejs Hasan
The most unattainable part of Earth

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