Students enjoy listening to creation stories in Ute elder Larry Cespooch's teepee on the Northen Ute Reservation.
Zack Shepard gets up close and personal with a 140 million year old dinosaur fossil in the quarry at Dinosaur National Monument.
Marcella Fisher, Zane Lyon, and Zack Shepard look over the edge of a geologic "nick point" on the north side of the Colorado River. The La Sal mountains rise in the distance with the majestic buttes of Castle Valley filling the foreground.
Armin, a USGS field technician, educates the students about the technical challenges of studying plants and crypto-biotic soils in a 10-year Department of Energy study on climate change.
