White Sands Planetary Dunes Workshop field trip
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Large -- Medium These pictures are from a 1-day field trip to the White Sands dunes near Alamogordo, New Mexico. The trip was associated with the Planetary Dunes Workshop, held in Alamogordo this year. |
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Large -- Medium Here are Ryan Ewing and Gary Kocurek (from University of Texas - Austin), who study White Sands and led the field trip. |
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Large -- Medium Digging a trench in the sandy interdune. |
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Large -- Medium Trench close-up. |
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Large -- Medium The crew gathered 'round. |
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Large -- Medium Ralph Lorenz. |
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Large -- Medium Ralph setting up his Kite-cam. |
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movie Kite-cam in flight. |
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Large -- Medium Reeling in the Kite-cam. |
![]() | Large -- Medium Here I got the camera part and Ralph just as it was reeling in the last meter. |
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Large -- Medium Some of the underlying layering in the dunes is starting to poke out from their back side here. |
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Large -- Medium Field trippers get intimate with saltation. |
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Large -- Medium Another trench. |
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Large -- Medium This time with attendant planed-off view to complement. |
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Large -- Medium The park service nicely cut a fresh exposure of a dune cut in half for us. |
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movie This being a short while after the bulldozer came through, the sand was still reacting. |
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Large -- Medium The cross-section of a "live" dune was cool, but these fascinating spires were cool, too! |
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Large -- Medium An alcove and channel of a dry flow in action. movie |
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Large -- Medium Selenite crystal from the margins of Lake Lucero. |
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Large -- Medium Lots more selenite crystals. |
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Large -- Medium On the dry lakebed. |
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Large -- Medium Outcrop of layering at the edge of Lake Lucero. |
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Large -- Medium After a group photo on top of a parabolic dune; Jani takes a photo of the PSI people in background. |
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Large -- Medium Our bus. |
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Large -- Medium It was *VERY* windy this day. Up here on the platform it was worse. Winds were at least 40 MPH. My hat stays on pretty well, but I didn't trust it in these extreme winds. |
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