Earth science starts outside.

PHOTO: Traversing a col, Sawtooth Mountains.

Fieldwork is where ideas meet context –
an essential part of understanding our environment and our place in it.

Plus, it’s just fun.

Please enjoy the view from out here…

RV Barden anchored near Ksite Island in the Ksite Mpunguti Marine Park & Reserve, Kenya.
Hydrographic survey on the RV George Davidson, looking towards the Olympic Mountains, Puget Sound, Washington.
Cape Disappointment, Long Beach Peninsula, Pacific County, Washington.
Cormorants contemplate Mt. Rainier in the distance, Puget Sound, Washington.
A Neolithic midden exposed by an active blowout dune, Magheramore Dunes, County Donegal, Ireland.
Mule deer gallop across a country road, Dallam County, Texas.
Sunset over the Taveta region, near Mt. Kilimanjaro, Kenya.
Ebb tide, Elwha Beach, Washington.
All. The. Gear.
Thompson & Williams peaks, Sawtooth Mountains, Idaho.
Watch out for the quicksand! Elwha Beach, Clallam County, Washington.
Moon rise over the southern plains, Baca County, Colorado.
Monitoring hitch into the backcountry, Sawtooth Wilderness Area, Idaho.
First snow of the season, western Washington.
Fighting coastal erosion! Long Beach, Washington.
Looking west across Freshwater Bay to the Olympic Mountains, Clallam County, Washington.
Mapping and measuring the emissivity of a sand dune, Hamilton County, Kansas.
Looking west at the Atlantic Ocean over the headlands at Magheramore Dunes, County Donegal, Ireland.
Learning how binoculars work, Shimoni Coastal Forests, Kenya.
Exploring the Sawtooth WIlderness Area.
Millions of years of Earth's history in one photograph, Sawtooth Mountains, Idaho.
Remnants of the Intrepid shipwreck, Long Beach, Washington.
Mt. Kilimanjaro at dawn, Taveta Region, Kenya.
Glacial lake #390, Sawtooth Wilderness Area, Idaho.
Active blowouts, Magheramore Dunes, County Donegal, Ireland.
A bald eagle supervises the survey, Elwha Beach, Washington. Credit: Heather Weiner.
LIDAR targets ready for testing, Puget Sound, Washington.
Monahans Dunes, west Texas.
Inventory & Monitoring, Sawtooth Wilderness Area. Credit: Saya Clancy.
The beach at Tramore, County Donegal, Ireland.
Measuring the emissivity of a cultivated field with a portable wind tunnel, Hamilton County, Kansas.
Shuttered dock, Puget Sound, Washington.
Post-fire recovery, Sawtooth Wilderness Area.
Sunset, Grayland, Washington.
Surface mapping, Klipsan Beach, Washington.
First snowfall, at the base of (the appropriately named) Snowyside Peak, Sawtooth Mountains.
RV George Davidson, undertaking a dual-LIDAR and multi-beam SONAR study of Washington's beaches & bluffs.
Magheramore Dunes, Ireland.
Walking a topographic survey line on a beach in Washington.
Descending Salaita Hill, Taveta, Kenya.
Entering Stanley, Idaho.
Don't pull the rope...
White Cloud Mountains, Idaho.

PHOTO: The trailhead at Iron Creek, Sawtooth Wilderness Area.