Geosciences Field Trip Slideshow

Students on a ridge with indigenous people at the Navajo Nation

Geo 360 – Environmental Justice and Sustainability: Lessons from Navajo Nation: students help Sixth Work Solutions with efforts to develop socio-economic systems for Indigenous people in a 4-week sustainable workshop. Photo courtesy: John Higgins

Student researchers on basalt flows in Mpala, Kenya

Eroding basalt flows, showing flow structures, that cover a plateau dated to the Miocene, on a GEO 203 field trip to Mpala, Kenya. Photo: Prof. Elizabeth Niespolo

Overhang with rock art painting by early humans

An <30 ka overhang with early human rock art paintings on a GEO 2023 field trip to Mpala, Kenya. Photo: Prof. Elizabeth Niespolo

A crystallizing bridgmanite, the most abundant mineral phase in Earth. The inset shows a zoom-in view of the bridgmanite-liquid interface with atoms colored by their local environment similarity with respect to the perfect perovskite structure. Figure: Prof. Jie Deng

Freshman Seminar class on campus at the composting yard

Prof. Xinning Zhang and professional specialist Shannon Haynes with undergrads during their Freshman Seminar: Science of Composting in 2023. Photo: Office of Sustainability

Students wearing protective eclipse glasses on Frist Lawn

Geosciences and AOS members participation at the 2024 Solar Eclipse. Photo: Georgette Chalker

Colorful visualization figure mapping the Pacific Ocean oxygen minimum zone

Visualization figure made by Julius Busecke of the Pacific Ocean oxygen minimum zone (colors indicate oxygen concentrations in micromol/Kg). Photo: J. Busecke

Sophomore Tacy Guest working with grad student Moriah Kunes on some coral research. The photo shows Guest loading some coral samples into the EA-IRMS (the mass spec) for the Ward Laboratory. Photo: Moriah Kunes

Students observing recent lava flows from the largest volcano on Earth, Mauna Loa, while on a Hawaiian field trip in the spring of 2023. (GEO 369)

Students conduct field work with field equipment.

Students conduct field work and sampling on a 2023 field trip to Hawaii for GEO 369.

Deutsch Lab Postdoc May Huang during International Ocean Discovery Program Expedition 397-Iberian Margin Paleoclimate in December 2022. Photo: May Huang

Study abroad class on an ice sheet in Scandinavia

Heather Madsen ’24 and trip makes travel an ice sheet during the 2024 Princeton Study Abroad Program in Scandinavia.

Researchers in hard hats on the deck of JOIDES Resolution ship.

Harry H. Hess Postdoctoral Research Fellow Udara Amarathunga (Sigman Lab) on the top deck of the on JOIDES Resolution with other researchers during the Mediterranean–Atlantic Gateway Exchange expedition.

Grad student talks with young conference attendees

Graduate student Will Eaton explains the cause and effects of earthquakes at the 2nd Annual Spring into Science 2024 event, hosted by the Science Outreach Program.

Graduate student Moriah Kunes, Catherine Hexter and Jenna Lee talk about the acidification of the ocean reefs at the 2nd Annual Spring into Science 2024 event, hosted by the Science Outreach Program.

GEO 360 Topics in Environmental Justice in the Geosciences - Students exploring the area around Bears Ears at a place called Arch Canyon Overlook, inside Mystery Valley that is part of Monument Valley Tribal Park, AZ. Photo: Tommy Rock

Student look down on the canyons of Arizona

GEO 360 Topics in Environmental Justice in the Geosciences - Students exploring the area around Bears Ears at a place called Arch Canyon Overlook, inside Mystery Valley that is part of Monument Valley Tribal Park, AZ. Photo: Tommy Rock

GEO 360 Topics in Environmental Justice in the Geosciences - Students exploring the area around Bears Ears at a place called Arch Canyon Overlook, inside Mystery Valley that is part of Monument Valley Tribal Park, AZ. Photo: Tommy Rock

Prof and students collecting samples of soil

Professor Adam Maloof and graduate students Bolton Howes and Rilla McKeegan collect samples near the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary in the Maragua Syncline, Bolivia.

Prof and students pose on top of mountain in the Catskills, NY.

GEO 505 Fundamentals of the Geosciences - Prof. Adam Maloof and first year graduate students in Catskills Mountains, NY.

Prof. on a lift ascending from a coal mine

Professor Satish Myneni ascends from the depths of the Tewa coal mine, Chindwara, India, where he, other faculty, and graduate students were collecting samples to assess carbon dioxide release when organic rich sediments were heated by igneous intrusions associated with the Deccan Traps large igneous province 66 million years ago.

Prof and students investigate sediment on top of mountain.

GEO 505 Fundamentals of the Geosciences - Prof. Adam Maloof and first year graduate students in Catskills Mountains, NY.

Prof. and Students pose on top of a mountain.

GEO 373 Structural Geology class on a visit to the Bear Valley mine in central Pennsylvania, where 20th century strip mining has exposed once-buried folds, fractures and faults. From left to right: Prof. Blair Schoene, Galen Cadley ‘21, Asten Mazenko ‘24, Isabel Koran ‘22, GEO staff member Laurel Goodell, and Hannah Szabo ’22.

GEO 369 - Environmental Materials Chemistry: Researching in the field and laboratory - Students sampling while on a Hawaiian field trip. Photo: Prof. Satish Myneni

Two crew members from R/V Atlantic Explorer bring aboard a Princeton ocean-bottom geodetic sensor after a successful trial deployment at 5200 m on the ocean bottom near Bermuda. Project led by Frederik Simons.

Inspecting the ocean-bottom geodetic sensor

Colin Vincent, Bud Vincent, and Hayden Radke inspect the Princeton ocean-bottom geodetic sensor developed by their firm, DBV Technology, aboard R/V Atlantic Explorer. Project led by Frederik Simons.

Student group in the Rockies to observe local meteorology

AOS graduate students in 2023 with Director Prof. Stephan Fueglistaler, and Geosciences lab manager Danielle Schmitt. They stayed in Durango in the Rockies for a week to observe local meteorology during the active season of the North American monsoon with weather balloons, ground-based weather stations, and time-lapse videos. Photo courtesy: Stephan Fueglistaler