Prof. Glazner's First Year Seminar, Fall 2003

We began Thursday's journey with an excellent visit to the Owens Valley Radio Observatory. Dr. Mark Hodges gave us a 2-hour tour of the facility. Here we are looking at a rather amazing scale model of the Solar System, with the Solar Array telescopes pointed at the sun.

Here is the huge 130-foot telescope, which we got to go into.

View of the very important Millimeter Array from the catwalk of the 130-foot dish.

Next it was up into the White Mountains. Here we are looking for archeocyathid fossils in the Lower Poleta Formation.

Marie found an area that was rich with worm burrows. These are the tracks of worms that fed in the mud about 540 million years ago.

Nick takes notes.

A venerable old bristlecone pine tree at the Schulman Grove. Some trees in this area are well over 4,000 years old.

A close-up of the rings on one bristlecone. These tree rings tell a story of the climate going back thousands of years.