Great Desert Workshop -- Index
The Great Desert teacher training workshop was held in mid July,
2003. We spent the first three days in the field, travelling from Albuquerque to the Grand Canyon,
studying the Grand Canyon, and visiting Sunset Crater cinder cone and the Meteor Crater on our return to
Albuquerque. We spent the next two days in the classroom at the University of New Mexico, focussing on
Mars and the analogs between
it and what we'd seen. Friday was spent travelling through the Jemez mountains, emphasizing life
in desert soils and hot springs, and the geology of volcanos. On the last day, back in the classroom,
we emphasized life: the energy it needs, microscopy of microbes in the samples we collected on Friday,
and detection of microbial life by remote sensing.
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