High school student Francisco Cervantes carefully scoops up a
water sample to be analyzed in the lab.
Violeta Romero Mayen, an international graduate student from Mexico looks
for ostracodes in laboratory samples.
Teacher Jack Pierce and Dr. Fest observe high school student
Tyler Nelson take temperature readings from a water sample during the first
day of the summer project.
CSUB Professors Dirk Baron and Rob Negrini show students a
map of the Owens River and Fossil Falls area on the field trip.
Dr. Negrini and high school student Tyler Nelson collect
fossils for carbon dating from a trench in Tulare Lake.
Participants learn about the paleoclimate of Searles Lake during a lecture
at the Trona Pinnacles.
High school students Joy Invina and Delona Parubrub look for
living ostracodes in water samples taken from a CSUB campus pond..
At Trona Pinnacles the participants see evidence of the
extensive river system that produced numerous large lakes during the last
ice age.
Here a student measures the magnetic susceptibility of a core
collected from ancient Tulare Lake.
Dr.'s Fest, Baron and Negrini discuss the distribution of
volcanic ash from the Long Valley Caldera.
Students present their data and conclusions during the last
few days of the project.
Scenic views on the field trip are enjoyed by everyone.
Great weather made for incredible views during the field
trip, including Convict Lake.
Students, teachers and faculty lay out cores collected from
Tulare Lake in one of the Geology Departments many laboratories.
High school student Tyrell Braker explores the rock
formations at Fossil Falls.
Dr. Manuel Palacios-Fest discusses ostracode morphology in
the Geology Department microscope lab.
Students learned the basics of geomorphology from local areas such as Red Hill
cinder cone in Owens Valley and how it impacted the local climate.
CSUB Biology student Jereme Gaeta helps the project by
identifying fish fossils collected from the drill site.
Participants were on site during drilling to help collect and
label cores taken from Tulare Lake.
Participants listen as the formation of Convict Lake is
discussed.
Dr. Manuel Palacios-Fest and graduate student Violeta Romero
Mayen analyze samples using the Geology Departments Inductively Coupled
Plasma Mass Spectrometer.
Lateral glacial moraines near Convict Lake, CA are remnants
of the last ice age.
It's not all hard work, participants from the summer project
enjoy a backyard BBQ.
Students and teachers work together on their final
presentations.
Dr. Robert Negrini points out an active fault near Lone Pine,
CA
A beautiful sunrise from the White Mountain Research Station
highlights the Sierra Nevadas .
Fish bones were found and collected at the Tulare Lake drill
site.
CSUB freshman Michael Adamson analyzes core samples using the
departments X-Ray Diffractometer.
