Bob Kopp

Division of Geological & Planetary Sciences
California Institute of Technology

Field Work

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Dates

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West Texas and southeast New Mexico November 2006
(1 wk.)
John Grotzinger (Caltech), John Southard (MIT) Sedimentology of Mars analog environments at Hunt's Hole and White Sands, and sequence stratigraphy in the Guadalupe Range
Panamints Range, California October 2006
(6 d.)
Ryan Petterson (Caltech) Ge 121 (advanced field mapping) exercise in Cryogenian-Ediacaran metasediments
Flinders Range, South Australia September 2006
(4 d.)
Joe Kirschvink (Caltech) Reconnaisance trip for potential scientific drilling project
Baja California February 2006
(5 d.)
Joe Kirschvink (Caltech) Ge 11b (undergraduate Earth history course), looking at Cretaceous stratigraphy and modern microbial environments
Andros Island, Bahamas December 2005
(1 wk.)
Adam Maloof (MIT), Dave Fike (Caltech), Tanja Bosak (Harvard) Stratigraphy and environmental magnetic/paleomagnetic sampling in Three Creeks region
Yellowstone and Vicinity August 2005
(2 wk.)
Ryan Petterson, Charlie Verdel, Joe Kirschvink (Caltech), Ed Beutner (F&M) Caltech GPS Division Summer Field Trip to Tetons, Yellowstone, and Beartooth Range
Western Ontario August 2005
(1 wk.)
Ryan Petterson (Caltech), Nicola McLoughlin (Oxford) Sample collection from the Gunflint Formation
China May 2005
(11 d.)
Dan Lehrmann (UW-Oshkosh), International Symposium of Trassic Chronostratigraphy and Biotic Recovery Touring Beijing, symposium in Chaohu, examination of the P/T boundary in Guizhou
Mono Basin May 2005
(2 d.)
Cody Nash (Caltech) Environmental magnetism sample collecting
Colorado Plateau April 2005
(4 d.)
Joe Kirschvink (Caltech) Geology of the Colorado Plateau and paleomag sampling of upper Permian section near Hite
Baja California February 2005
(5 d.)
Joe Kirschvink (Caltech) Ge 11b (undergraduate Earth history course), looking at Cretaceous stratigraphy and modern microbial environments
Eastern Death Valley area October 2004
(3 d.)
Stan Awramik, Dave Pierce (UCSB), Ryan Petterson (Caltech) Neoproterozoic statigraphy and geobiology of eastern Death Valley area
Western Australia August 2004
(2.5 wk.)
Francis Macdonald, Joe Kirschvink (Caltech) Kimberley Basin, Pilbara province, Ningaloo reef, and Shark Bay
Canadian Rockies (Banff region) June 2004
(1 wk.)
John Grotzinger, Andy Knoll, Dawn Sumner, Frank Corsetti (Agouron Institute/USC Wrigley Institute Geobiology Summer Course) Devonian/Mississippian reef environments, Cambrian stratigraphy, and the Mesoproterozoic Belt Supergroup
Southwestern Utah (Bryce & Zion) May 2004
(5 d.)
Joe Kirschvink (Caltech) Regional geology of Bryce Canyon and Zion National Park regions, including sampling of Mars-analog hematite concretions in the Navajo sandstone
Eastern California/Nevada May 2004
(3 d.)
Brian Wernicke, Ryan Petterson (Caltech) Ge 106 field trip - overview of the structure of the Cordilleran orogoen
Meteor Crater, Arizona May 2004
(1 d.)
Oded Aharonson, Francis Macdonald (Caltech) Ge 11c (undergrad planetary science) field trip
Rainbow Basin, E. California April 2004
(3 d.)
Brian Wernicke, Ryan Petterson (Caltech) Ge 106 field trip - field mapping exercise
Baja California February 2004
(5 d.)
Joe Kirschvink, Paul Falkowski, Dawn Sumner, Nic Beukes (Caltech) Ge 11b (undergraduate Earth history course), looking at Cretaceous stratigraphy and modern microbial environments
Mono Basin November 2003
(3 d.)
Kerry Sieh (Caltech) Ge 112 (stratigraphy) field trip
Baja California February 2003
(5 d.)
Joe Kirschvink (Caltech) Ge 11b (undergraduate Earth history course), looking at Cretaceous stratigraphy and modern microbial environments
South Africa September 2002
(3 wk.)
Joe Kirschvink, Nic Beukes, Eiichi Tajika, and others (Caltech, Rand Afrikaans University, University of Tokyo, Agouron Institute) Preliminary work in the Kalahari for the Agouron Institute Geobiology Drilling Project through the Neoarchean of the Transvaal Supergroup; paleomagnetic sidework in the Permo-Triassic of the Karoo
Central Canada July-August 2002
(1 wk.)
Joe Kirschvink, Eiichi Tajika, and others (Caltech Paleomag Lab and University of Tokyo) Paleomagnetic sampling in the Paleoproterozoic Huronian Supergroup of Ontario and Quebec
Maritime Canada September 2001
(3 wk.)
Fred Ziegler (University of Chicago) Intro field course in stratigraphy
San Salvador, Bahamas March 2001
(1 wk.)
Fred Ziegler (University of Chicago) Course in fossil and modern carbonate environments

Last Updated: 2 December 02006