Location | Dates | Associates | Subject |
| 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 |