In the Field
Scott Orton, a geosciences student from the University of California, Berkeley, uses his rock climbing talents and a Real Time Kinematic (RTK) GPS unit to digitize a folded granite outcrop on a precipitous slope on the northwestern end of Seguin Island, Maine. His work was done as part of the USM GIS field school last summer. Orton's project (and the work of his colleagues) will be presented at the 2007 Meeting of the North Eastern Section of the Geological Society of America (NEGSA) in Durham, N.H., in March. Associate Professor of Geography and Anthropology Matthew Bampton and a new crop of students will head back out in their kayaks in early May for eight more weeks of field work.
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