Geo 11 Global Climate Change
Global Climate Change
We spent two days in the White Mountain Research Station in the Eastern Sierra.
We looked at the record of climate change preserved from ancient glaciers, and the Bristle Cone Pines, the oldest living organism on Earth. We also looked at evidence for recent volcanism, and environmental change in the Owens Lake associated with dessiciation.
Palasades Glacier in the distant Sierra MountainsGroup photo on a cold day.
Mammoth Hot Springs group photo.
Bristlecone Pines in the White Mountains, elevation 3000 m
Owens Valley remediation project class walking in alkaline soil.
Geo 11 undergrads learning about the alkaline soil