UCSB Sedimentology Lab

Another exciting event this summer, was Dr. Elisa Medri successfully defending her dissertation. Congrats, Dr. Medri. She is off to be an instructor at Florida Gulf Coast University.

Another paper that came out was Emily Huffman's first paper - also in Quaternary Science Reviews. Emily produced some of the first OSL ages on the Late-glacial shoreline across NW Scotland. It provides more evidence suggesting deglaciation may have been earlier than thought across the region.

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For our Depositional Systems coarse we went down to Split Mountain Gorge to check out the Miocene rocks there. they record the opening of the Gulf of California.

Three weeks ago we went back to Tomales Bay to collect a couple more cores for Claire’s work reconstructing past sea levels in central California. It’s always such a pretty place.

Two weeks ago the whole lab went to GSA. Had a great meeting and I’m so proud of Elisa, Claire, Emily, Trap, Lauren, and Matt for presenting on their research.

Just finished up teaching the first half of our summer field camp in northern New Mexico. I never tire of looking at these rocks. great group of students. A little wet this year but that meant cooler temperatures than normal. Thanks for helping Claire and Trap.