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Aground on the Hampton Bar with the Sea Making a Fair Breach
On April 25, 2023
![Imagery of Hampton Roads and the shipwreck site showing the shipwreck just west of Fort Monroe and northwest of Fort Wool](https://wmblogs.wm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Thumbnailer-280x190.jpeg)
200 years ago this month, in early April 1823, a ship foundered and sunk onto a shallow sand bar in Hampton Roads, Virginia. On
Girl Put Your Records On: Tell me about your thesis
On December 13, 2021
![A record playing on a record player](https://wmblogs.wm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/victrola-record-players-R4Rdi0EfBws-unsplash-280x190.jpg)
Katie Cullen ’22 There’s a certain something about the ritual of putting on a record that makes the entire experience more delightful than just
The Schuyler Sisters Field Adventures: A Top 10 List
On August 19, 2021
![1. Four smiling students holding cylindrical, grey rock cores in a large room.](https://wmblogs.wm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/SSistersTnail-280x190.jpeg)
You’ve heard of David Letterman’s Top 10 lists, or actually maybe you Gen Zers haven’t, but we’re sure you can pick up on the
We Need to Go Deeper – the Blueschists and Eclogites of Oman
On November 20, 2020
![A blueschist thin section showing angular fractured shapes in green, blue, purple, white and gray.](https://wmblogs.wm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/OmanBEfig4-280x190.jpg)
By Nick Carpenter ’21 Have you ever wondered what goes on deep within the Earth, far deeper than any human has ever ventured? Well
When the Research Road Turns Rough
On April 2, 2020
![Split video screen stills of students and Professor Bailey in a variety of hats, wigs, sunglasses, and creative virtual backgrounds.](https://wmblogs.wm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/WRRRtnail-280x190.jpg)
COVID-19 has shuttered the academic world. At William & Mary, teaching goes on as technology enables us to connect in new ways with our
A Frenzy of Fall Field Trips 2: Flowing Low and Flying High
On October 8, 2019
![Aerial photo of river bottom through clear waters. A canoe is on the water's surface.](https://wmblogs.wm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/FLFHthumbnail-280x190.jpg)
Earlier this summer I reported on the Gladstone Gladiators’ ‘games’ on and over the James River, all part of our research campaign to decipher
Gladiator Games over the James
On July 22, 2019
![An outcrop of rock in the James River river with members of the team and their canoes in the water and standing on the outcrop](https://wmblogs.wm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/GGamesThumbnail-280x190.jpg)
The Gladstone Gladiators have spent the past two months dividing their time between geological field research in central Virginia and lab research in the
The Gladstone Gladiators
On June 10, 2019
![The Gladstone Gladiators, from left to right- Ryan Walter, Sam Belding, Amanda Sasina, Claire Rae (guest Gladiator), and Evan Laughlin.](https://wmblogs.wm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/GStoneGfig3-280x190.jpg)
The summer research season has arrived at William & Mary. This year, I’m starting a new project in central Virginia with a team of
Summer Research: It’s About Time
On June 26, 2018
![W&M geologist George Denny with a portable magnetometer at a dimension stone quarry in central Virginia.](https://wmblogs.wm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/AboutTimeThumbnail-280x190.jpg)
Mid-summer is here, and it’s been a busy few weeks for my undergraduate research students. The 2018-19 William & Mary Structural Geology & Tectonics