Thursday, November 21, 2002 TODAY
Graduate School news
Geology students escape to Wyoming and Colorado
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| The field trip in Wyoming had 40 attendees from different universities, companies, and federal agencies. LLU’s Paul Buchheim (top center with cowboy hat), PhD, professor and coordinator of natural science, co-led the trip. |
Geology students fled the Inland Empire to beautiful Wyoming and Colorado. But, they had a good reason. A four-day field trip, October 22 to 25, in Wyoming awaited them as well as the Geology Convention of the Geological Society of America (GSA) in Colorado, October 27 to 30.
The field trip, “Paleontology and Geology of the Green River Formation, Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming,” had 40 attendees. It was the second largest field trip sponsored by GSA this year associated with the annual convention in Denver, where papers on the same topic were presented. Paul Buchheim, PhD, professor and coordinator of natural science, led the field trip with Alan Carroll of the University of Wisconsin along with a couple other researchers. Attendees of the trip were researchers from numerous universities, private companies, and federal agencies in the United States and abroad.
“The field trip was great because we interacted with different researchers,” says Jason Scott, a third-year geology student. “It helped us make contacts.”
The trip explored two of the Eocene Green River lakes—Fossil Lake and Lake Gosiute. The sites illustrated various aspects of depositional environments, paleolimnology, and paleontology in Fossil Lake of western Wyoming. Highlighted at Lake Gosiute were recent advancements in stratigraphy, geochronology, and paleontology near Rock Springs, Wyoming.
The GSA Convention, the largest geological convention in the world, took place in Denver, Colorado. During the convention, Dr. Buchheim co-chaired a heavily attended oral scientific session titled, “The Green River Formation Revisited: crucible for new concepts and advances in paleoclimatology, tectonics, chronostratigraphy, sequence stratigraphy, isotope geochemistry, and paleontology.”
The poster sessions were held in the afternoon and included 15 papers that were authored or coauthored by LLU researchers. “Part of it looked like ‘Loma Linda University row’ because so many LLU posters were present,” says Dr. Buchheim. “This was impressive and resulted in numerous positive comments by scientists, especially because LLU is not generally known in the physical science realm.”
Overall, networking with different researchers was the main highlight from the students. Carol Shultz, a third-year geology student, says, “My most memorable part of the trip was the people. I got a lot of input and insight in the area that I’m studying.”
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