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Group at the Stockton bar, Utah. Front, l to r:  Maryjo Brounce,  Terryl Daniels, Mike Cronin, Kristen Jurinko, Kethleen Galligan. Middle:  David Travis, Kyle Kohler, Rudy Slingerland, Adam Buhman, Ted Donovan, Jenna Ellis, Sarah Barrett, Christine Regalla.
Back:  Ron Hastings, Brad Kuntz, Matt Legg, Justin Gibel, Tony Walaitis, Zack Kita, Adam Donovan, Justin Kutz. Credit: Rudy Slingerland

Field Camp 2008

Students In 2008 the field course was the one taught since 1961, Geosc 472, Field Geology.

Barrett, Sarah A        Donovan, Theodore C Kita, Zachary A
Brounce, Maryjo N Ellis, Jenna     Kohler, Kyle N
Cronin, Michael B   Galligan, Kathleen Kuntz, Brad W
Buhman, Adam C Gibel, Justin R Kutz, Justin M
Daniels, Terryl G Hastings, Ronald J Travis, David M
Donovan, Adam M Jurinko, Kristen N  

Faculty
   Rudy Slingerland, Dave Bice, Eric Kirby, Don Fisher (Director)

TAs
  
Matt Legg, Kristin Morell, Christine Regalla

Where They Stayed
  
College of Eastern Utah, Price, Utah; Hellgate Apts, Alta, Utah; YBRA, Red Lodge, Montana; Wildhorse Campground, Pioneer Mountains, Idaho

Major Projects
   Book Cliffs, Salt Lake area Quaternary, Elk Basin, Wildhorse (White Mtns), Borah fault scarp, Alta overthrust, Alta Stock

Click here to read the essay of Brad Kuntz on the 2008 field camp

Click on the thumbnails to enlarge the images: (thanks to Christine Regalla and Maryjo Brounce for most of these)

At the continental divide atop Loveland Pass, on the trip out

Book Cliffs project. Terryl, Jenna, Sarah, Kathleen, & others

Rudy explains sequence stratigraphy at the Book Cliffs

Ascending the Book Cliffs

Rudy at the bar, Stockton, Utah

Mike, Ted, and Rudy discuss bedforms at the shore of the Great Salt Lake

Trenching sands, Great Salt Lake

Mapping Elk Basin from afar: David, Kyle, Jenna

Busy in the classroom, YBRA

Eric Kirby instructs at Elk Basin

Elk Basin: Mike, Dustin, Brad, Adam

The group on the rim at Elk Basin

Shade for lunch in the Vergelle at Elk Basin, aka The Bat Cave

Kathleen, Dave, Terryl, Mike, Zachary, Tony, and Kristen measure gravity near YBRA

Don talks about detachment on the Heart Mtn trip

Group in Jackson Lake, Tetons. Kyle, Maryjo, Justin K, Jenna, Sarah, Justin G

Justin G, Kyle, Brad, Jenna, Justin K, Sarah

Craters of the Moon

Traversing pahoehoe pressure ridges at Craters of the Moon, Idaho

Sarah, Jenna, and Maryjo at the mouth of a lava tube, Craters

Justin K, Adam B, and Justin G resting on silicified conglomerate, Wildhorse project, central Idaho

Maryjo in the lahar unit, Wildhorse project

Terryl, Justin G, and Justin K relaxing on alluvium, Wildhorse project

Group at the Wildhorse campground, Idaho. Front: Maryjo, Jenna, Sarah, Kristin. Back: Terryl, Brad, Justin G, Don, Adam D, Justin K, Adam B, Ron,Mike

Ascending snow at Alta. On the skyline is Duff's Bench and a thrust fault under the Mineral Forks Formation. Sarah is facing the camera.

Ballgame in the Alta ski resort parking lot

Sitting on Duff's Bench, Alta

Stopping near Bells Canyon Reservoir in the SLC foothills, glacial project

Geology on Mars. A reconstruction at the Clark Planetarium in Salt Lake City

On top of the world at Alta. Jenna, Sarah, and Maryjo