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Penn State Geosciences 1993 Field Camp on Flagstaff Mtn
Flagstaff Peak, Alta, Utah. Credit: Frank Pazzaglia

Field Camp 1993

Students Field course offerings in 1993 were Geosc 471, the pre-camp cross-country excursion, and Geosc 472, Field Geology.

Mike Appleby Jennifer DeLurio Joe Dzvonik
Tom Gebbie Andy Hoover Jason Lynch
Steve Nelson Trish Newdeck Dan Ombalski
Steve Petsch Ben Pursell Geoff Rawling
Scott Robinson Eric Rufe Jamie Shallenberger
Scott Snyder Greg Symons Brett Wambold
Shep Winckler Marc Zeisloft  

Faculty
  
Duff Gold, Dave Eggler

TAs
   Kevin (Doc) Hoover, Frank Pazzaglia, Barbara Marin, Shana Gordon Tritsch

Where They Stayed
   YBRA, Red Lodge, Montana; U of U, Salt Lake City; Alta Peruvian Lodge, Alta, Utah; Richfield, Utah

Major Projects
   Elk Basin, Little Bear Creek, Rosebud, Salt Lake area surficial deposits, Gun Club quarry, Alta overthrust, Alta stock, Marysvale volcanics

Some of Dave Eggler's "Silly Awards"
   Geoff: The Dave Eggler Dry Humor Award -- always ready with a cynical response
   Trish: Dedication Award -- wish we could buy you a car, but you get Brett & Jamie instead!
   Jason: TA "Brown"-Nosing Award
   Mike: Most Likely Convert to Mormonism -- nice, blonde hair, might enjoy three wives
   Jennifer: Alf Engen Award -- best parallel skiing off Cardiff Peak
   Joe: Experimental Physics Award -- a living experiment in black-body radiation
   Tom: The Human Thermostat -- "air on," "air off"
   Andy: The Calgary Stampede Award -- "Hey, Steve, can cows climb?"
   Dan: The Who Dan Award for allegedly being attacked by an owl.  But who knows? After all, it's Dan.
   Steve P: A Stephen Sondheim Award for show tunes far, far, far off-Broadway
   Ben: "Clothes Optional" Award, especially when beer's involved
   Scott R: "Is this an A?" "Is this a hottub?"
   Eric: Trivial Pursuit Award for best recall of trivia, unless they involve geology
   Jamie: "Shoes?"
   Scott S: Library of Congress Reference Award -- "But this is all common knowledge"
   Greg: The Zip Code Award -- up to four postcards a day
   Brett: G-String Award -- for most obscene shorts
   Marc: Kindercare Award

Click on the thumbnails to enlarge the images: (thanks to Frank Pazzaglia for some of the photos)

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Mt Rushmore

Devils Tower

Thermopolis

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Granite Pass, Beartooth Highway

Beartooth Race

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Stillwater Complex

Duff's birthday at YBRA

YBRA

Gros Ventre landslide area

Shana in Warfield Springs quarry

Monroe Quarry, Wasatch fault

Gilbert delta, SLC area

Frank shows glacial features in Little Cottonwood Canyon

yes, but it's only dirt!

Frank on the White Pine Slide, Little Cottonwood

Frank and Sarah