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Paddle Trip Report 2 – Across the Piedmont and Fall Zone
On August 3, 2015
At the end of my last post we’d completed the first two days of an 8-day canoe trip from the Blue Ridge Foothills in
Paddle Trip Report 1 – Through the Foothills
On July 23, 2015
We successfully completed our 8-day paddle trip from the foothills of the Blue Ridge to Williamsburg. It was all the adventure I’d hoped for.
A Journey Thirty Years in the Making
On July 7, 2015
In 1985 I enrolled at William & Mary. I remember bits of that summer day in which my mother and I made the journey
Endings and Beginnings
On May 18, 2015
William & Mary’s class of 2015 has graduated. On Sunday morning the Geology department held its graduation reception, and the mood was suitably festive
Over the Hills and Far Away: The Earth Structure & Dynamics Field Trip 2015
On April 23, 2015
The Earth Structure & Dynamics class field trip is a springtime ritual; last weekend we headed over the hills and far away. At our
Mystery at Midway Mills (Part 2)
On April 9, 2015
In the last post I described how an old stone mill in the central Virginia Piedmont had disappeared. I discovered Midway Mills’ disappearance on
Mystery at Midway Mills
On March 13, 2015
Virginia’s Piedmont is an expansive area of gently rolling terrain whose underlying geology is quite complex. The old metamorphic and igneous rocks of the
Going Low, W&M’s Keck Lab Measures Its Lowest Temperature Ever
On February 20, 2015
The eastern half of the United States is gripped by intense cold, and William & Mary’s campus is wrapped in snow and ice. Earlier
Mount William & Mary, Really?
On January 26, 2015
Last week William & Mary News published a story about a second campaign to officially name a peak in the Rocky Mountains of central