Just so you don't think I've fallen off the face of the Earth ... I have been at the 2011 Keck Geology Symposium for Undergraduate Research at Union College for the last 4 days. It was a busy, busy symposium with lots of talks and posters - all of undergraduate geology research of all flavors - along with a day long field trip to the Adirondacks (and I have the two bags full of fabulous garnet-bearing rocks to prove it - with one garnet the size of a tennis ball).
There was a lot of geology, but thought I'd mentioned two things that might interest the Eruptions crowd:
Crater Lake: One of the Keck projects lead by Dr. Kelly McGregor (Macalester College) and Dr. Catherine Riihimaki (Drew Univ.) focussed on looking at lake sediment in the lakes of Glacier National Park in Montana. In Swiftcurrent Lake, the team found 50 ...
