First Day off Since 2/8/09
Posted by kalofxeno on March 1, 2009
Kayla and I have not had a day off since 2/08/09. This is because we had back to back field trips for field geology the past two weekends. The first field trip was changed because ASU’s budget cuts have greatly affects the Geology department. Each field trip we have had to provide out own transportation.
Two weeks ago we went to a place called Carl Hill to map tuff and scoria layereds that have been reworked by water. Accretionary lapilli presence was evidence for this conclusion. Sunday the class went to Telegraph Pass on South Mountain to map the contact between the Telegraph Pass Granite and the Estrella Gniess that trended NW-SE.
Last week the class went to the Salt River to map terraces. The mapping area was covered well by all. I am pretty sure that everyone had a good time using aerial photographs and Mylar for mapping. Terraces that were mapped included the Sawik, Mesa, Blue Point, and Lehi. The Blue Point had a gravel and silt layer that was also plotted on the Mylar. Sunday, Kayla, Brad, and I finished early and went “Jeeping” afterwards.
Yesterday, Kayla and I helped out at the Mars Educator Conference. Teachers from all over Arizona attended the event and acquired 7 hours of workshop training in doing so. Keynote speakers included Dr. Ariel Anbar, Dr. Phil Christensen, and Dr. Bill Hartmann. Kayla was awesome and did some filming of the event. I helped Paige Valderrama-Graff in her session about Mars Public Mapping Program a.k.a. (MP)^2. The 20 laptops from the Mars Education Program were acting up because the Airport Extreme (Opportunity) was not configured correctly. I was able to change the appropriate setting and get all laptops online.
Last night, Kayla and I went to Rula Bula to officially celebrate her 21st birthday. A good number of people showed up to eat, drink and have a good time. Afterward we went to her place and played Mario Party 8 on David’s brother’s Wii.
Today was the first day I slept in a long time and included watching Stargate SG-1, Fringe and going out to dinner. We were originally going to go to Abby and Oliver’s for dinner and set up Abby’s MacBook for Dual Boot. She wants a Windows XP environment to work in and run macros.
Arnett Creek Minicamp is coming up and Field I is practically done after that.
