Hello from Paige, Zoe H, and Zoë MDC!
The geomorph lab would like to welcome Zoe H. and Zoë MDC, who began working in the lab this spring semester! Zoe H is a second-year who worked in the lab over winter term. Zoë MDC is a first-year from Brooklyn, NY who is planning on majoring in biology on a pre-med track. Paige and Zoë MdC went on the “Parks and the Environment in Sichuan, China” winter term trip with Professor Amanda Schmidt.
During the trip in Sichuan, we visited some of China’s national parks, nature reserves, and UNESCO world heritage sites. We learned about and engaged in aspects of ecotourism, resource management, and environmental ethics throughout many mountainous hikes and guided tours with a focus on geology, sociology and religion. We were able to collect about 20 water samples and 6 sediment samples from streams and tributaries (referred to as SC), and these are one of the sets of samples we have been working with this semester. The other set of samples from China that we have been working with so far are from Jinsha (referred to as JS).
We are working with these samples to analyze fallout nucleotides in the soil which will tell us about the erosion rates within these areas and how/if erosion has changed over time. In the lab we have spent most of our time organizing samples, wet sieving the SC samples, and running the samples in detectors to measure Pb210 and Cs137 isotopes. For the rest of the semester, we plan to run all of the SC and JS samples of less than 63 micrometers in the detectors and analyze the data, then do the same for another set of China samples labeled YJ.
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| WT trip member Kayla collecting a sample in Sichuan |
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| Paige helping collect a sample in Sichuan |
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| JS samples waiting to be ran in the detectors |
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