Jan 28, 2014 | Keck in the News
Professor Jade Star Lackey (Pomona College) and Student Jesslyn Starnes (Denison University) have published results from their 2010 Keck project on magmatism in the Sierra Nevada Range, CA along with co-author Eric Klemetti (Denison University). Read...
Nov 22, 2013 | 2014-2015 Projects
Students and faculty of the Keck Colorado Project will make field measurements and collect samples to help characterize the: (1) importance of fire in the critical zone; (2) the geomorphic significance of catastrophic floods in channel and floodplain evolution; and...
Nov 22, 2013 | 2014-2015 Projects
Participants will investigate the behavior and morphology of basaltic lava flows from two very different but related perspectives: field observations of historic basaltic lava flows in Iceland and large-scale lava flow experiments conducted at Syracuse University....
Nov 22, 2013 | 2014-2015 Projects
Project Director: Kirsten Nicolaysen (Whitman College) Number of students: 3 Approximate dates: July 24 to August 20th Project summaryAssessing the degree to which geological hazards in the Aleutian archipelago disrupted prehistoric human and ecological systems has...
Nov 22, 2013 | 2014-2015 Projects
What: We will generate continuous records of mountain glaciation in Peru that span the Holocene (~12 ka to present) through an approach that combines the acquisition and analysis of lake sediment cores with moraine dating using both lichenometry and cosmogenic...
Nov 22, 2013 | 2014-2015 Projects
Investigation of the sedimentary record of Antarctic climate change with a focus on Pliocene of the Weddell Sea. Today the densest ocean water, Antarctic Bottom Water, is formed in the Weddell Sea. Yet, the sedimentary history of the Weddell Sea basin is poorly...
Nov 22, 2013 | 2014-2015 Projects
What: We will be working on reconstructing past environmental and geomorphic conditions in Glacier National Park through collection and analysis of lake sediment cores. There is broad interest in the future of our National Park system, particularly Glacier National...
Nov 22, 2013 | 2014-2015 Projects
What: The southwest Montana project aims to characterize the protoliths, the grade and timing of metamorphism, and the intensity and nature of tectonism of metasupracrustal rocks that occur along the western flank of the Ruby Range, and to integrate these findings...
Nov 22, 2013 | 2014-2015 Projects
At a time of dramatic worldwide coral reef decline, much of modern coral reef science has necessarily focused on what contributes to the demise of coral reef systems. But for reef conservation and protection efforts to become significantly more effective, it is...
Nov 21, 2013 | 2014-2015 Projects
What: This project focuses on the tectonic evolution of the Chugach-Prince William terrane in south central Alaska, and it is a continuation of our 2011-13 Keck projects. The Chugach-Prince William terrane is a thick accretionary complex dominated by...
