California
Transect

California Transect 2004

California Transect is a field class taught annually at California State University Monterey Bay.

Here are some shots from the 2004 trip.
Instructors: Dr Fred Watson, Dr John Stamm, Dr Susan Alexander, Thor Anderson.
Assistant: Regina Williams

Here are two of Bryan's images (click to enlarge):

There's oil in them thar hills - Kettleman Hills	Ashley - banding birds at Kern R Preserve
Chuckwalla	Mt Whitney
Hunting for obsidian	Fossil falls	Mystery road through the desert
Owens Valley - from Whitney Portal
Granitic weathering - Alabama Hills	Eyeballing minerals
Halophytes - making Owens Lake bed pink	Hunting for ammonites
Got ammonites?	Feeding time at Mt Whitney Fish Hatchery
Camp Whitney	Pinyon Camp - Inyo Mountains
Guitar John	Pinyon Camp
Plotting data on vegetation and climate	Dedicated teaching assistant	Bishop Tuff - from White Mtns
Deep Springs Valley
So this is how mountains form! (Image: Thor Anderson)
Joshua tree & Desert mallow	Eureka!
If I play dead, they wont notice me	If you don't notice me, you could be....
Sampling aquatic invertebrates	Identifying aquatic invertebrates
Second Lake (?) - near Palisades Glacier	Big Pine Creek
Owens Pupfish - an endangered species	Native American rock art
Hot Creek Springs Mono camp
Making tufa in a beaker (Image: Thor Anderson)	Mapping the Lee Vining freshwater plume (Image: Kelleen Harter)
On the trail again	John - Have crater, will lecture
Anyone see a bug, or a beetle, or a fly?	No, seriously, has anyone seen a bug?
The weightlessness of salt	Mono fire
Fire watchers	Firefly watchers
Firey licks!	Ebbetts Pass view - Artemesia tridentata!
Making limestone by breathing CO2 into a carbonate solution	Mercer Caverns
An atmospheric moment before...
Exam time!	I know it ended in "tridentata" *&^!!!

Erica's talk - gas pipelines, chromium, & cooling towers	Tony's talk - 'spring water' pumping
Josh's talk - creosote	Flower's talk - Manzanar internment camp
John's talk - game fish stocking	Bryan's talk - native ungulates and domestic grazing
Eric's talk - archaeocyathids (photo: Ken)	Maggie's talk - tufa (photo: Ken)
Hana's talk - booming dunes	Jose's talk - desert plant adaptations
Ryan's talk - desert animal adaptations	Kelleen's talk - desert fish
Nick's talk - hot springs	Jen's talk - Mono politics
Ken's talk - Mono hydrology	Noel's talk - water quality, cattle, and cutthroats
Jon's talk - alpine ecology	Jason's talk - karst