Tag: summer research
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Gladiator Games over the James
The Gladstone Gladiators have spent the past two months dividing their time between geological field research in central Virginia and lab research in the Geology department at William & Mary. They’ve made great progress, mapping through the summer heat and, in the process, are working out the complex structural architecture of the Piedmont. Our research…
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A Decade’s Worth of Field Britches
It’s mid-summer, and it is time for geological fieldwork with my undergraduate research students. As I’ve written before, geologists commonly go to the field to collect their primary data, and for William & Mary geologists, summer is a prime time to gather field data for Senior Research projects. The prudent geologist wears pants in the…
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Summer Research: Introducing the Buckmarlson Banshees
Try to find Buckmarlson on a map and you won’t have much luck. It’s the newly created place name for our field area in Virginia’s west-central Piedmont. Buckmarlson is a portmanteau word we created based on the names of the three counties in which our geologic studies are taking place: Buckingham, Albemarle, and Nelson counties.…
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Mid-Summer Dream Team Report
The Alberene Dream Team has left the building and is now safely ensconced back in the eastern Blue Ridge Mountains. The Dream Team took a well-earned respite from fieldwork last week to compile field data in the Geology Department. In my original post I noted that the Alberene Dream Team is conducting research in the…