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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 By Sarah Preston, Christina Stoner (& Juli Morgan) On April 25, after almost a year with no field […]
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