The class travelled to Port Aransas where they learned about the geologic history of the Gulf Coast by collecting and analyzing their own marine data.
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Aboard the R/V Scott Petty after completing the last day of multibeam measurements.
Middle: Student Nikki Bretting unloading cores from the R/V Brooks Mccall. Students extract a sediment core from a box corer from the deck of the R/V Brooks Mccall.
Bottom: Celebrating a successful day of sediment coring; students participating in the grain size analysis lab in the sed lab on the J.J. Pickle Research Campus.