Authored by Dominic Hildebrandt. At the end of March, four team members of the SGT Group went to Syros to conduct field work in the northern part of the island. The main goal of this field campaign was to collect structural geological field data, drone imagery and samples, mainly for my M.Sc. thesis project and complementing other research going on
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Authored by Markus Rast. The past summer, SGT group members spent another field season in southern Alaska. While my colleagues Prof. Dr. Whitney Behr and Lonnie Hufford are almost real Alaskans, it was the first time for me in the US state that is also called the ‘Last Frontier’. When I arrived, they already spent one week to get familiar
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Authored by Jesús Muñoz. One of the most exciting things about being a geologist is the never-ending feeling of always discovering new things, no matter if you have seen the same area or similar places dozens of times; it’s like being a kid again and playing treasure hunt, with the big difference that this time you find it! This time
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Authored by Lonnie Hufford. This post is about my second field season in Alaska. You can read about my first field season here: https://structuretectonics.org/2019/08/22/fire-and-seagulls-a-game-of-rocks/ Prof. Whitney Behr, Dr. Mark Helper, Dr. Zoe Braden, and I completed another field season this past summer in southern Alaska. Over the course of a month, we traveled the Kenai Peninsula using boats, planes, and
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Authored by Leif Tokle. The last 9+ months have been chaotic and very ‘brave new world’-esque for everyone. Fieldwork for many (including our group) was canceled due to the on-going COVID-19 pandemic. Fortunately, Zoe Braden, Whitney Behr, and myself were able to make the short trip to Austria and spend seven days in the field studying high pressure rocks in
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