White Sands Planetary Dunes Workshop field trip
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These pictures are from a 1-day field trip to the White Sands dunes near Alamogordo, New Mexico. The trip was associated with the Planetary Dunes Workshop, held in Alamogordo this year.
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Here are Ryan Ewing and Gary Kocurek (from University of Texas - Austin), who study White Sands and led the field trip.
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Digging a trench in the sandy interdune.
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Trench close-up.
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The crew gathered 'round.
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Ralph Lorenz.
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Ralph setting up his Kite-cam.
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Kite-cam in flight.
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Reeling in the Kite-cam.
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Here I got the camera part and Ralph just as it was reeling in the last meter.
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Some of the underlying layering in the dunes is starting to poke out from their back side here.
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Field trippers get intimate with saltation.
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Another trench.
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This time with attendant planed-off view to complement.
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The park service nicely cut a fresh exposure of a dune cut in half for us.
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This being a short while after the bulldozer came through, the sand was still reacting.
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The cross-section of a "live" dune was cool, but these fascinating spires were cool, too!
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An alcove and channel of a dry flow in action. movie
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Selenite crystal from the margins of Lake Lucero.
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Lots more selenite crystals.
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On the dry lakebed.
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Outcrop of layering at the edge of Lake Lucero.
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After a group photo on top of a parabolic dune; Jani takes a photo of the PSI people in background.
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Our bus.
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It was *VERY* windy this day. Up here on the platform it was worse. Winds were at least 40 MPH. My hat stays on pretty well, but I didn't trust it in these extreme winds.
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