Friends of the Pleistocene

[REDxj5150]

These geology field trips are held once a year this time of year. Many different schools get together and drink the weekend away. I don't remember very much about the last one... but I heard it was great. During the day we go on lecture style field trips where professors lecture us about their research, and show us in person some of the large scale evidence of their findings. This year the focus is on the Sierras in Kern focusing around the Kern river gorge fault and the potential threat to the Lake Isabella auxiliary dam. It's a great time. Maybe some of you may be interested in learning some new things and spend the weekend around the mountains. All the info can be found at the website below. Each year a different college gets the task of putting this event on and this year it's berkley. Your registration fee covers your T-shirt and your share of many many kegs, and campsite fees.

http://eps.berkeley.edu/groups/fop/Pac_ ... /Home.html

[gearheadLJ]

Okay I'll admit it I'm confused. Is the point of this to go and learn something new or to go and learn something new and then forget it.....

[Dirty LJ]

It sounds interesting.

Learning about that area would be cool.

[RyanSBCA]

My best friend from college was a geology major... and his family is a big geology family... so whenever we go hiking its a learning experience... best way to hike and see cool shit is with these types for sure!

[Desert Dog]

I may go, BUT when that Berkley Professor starts babbling about global warming in getting drunk

[Dirty LJ]

I'll drink to that!!!

I may be going as well.

[RyanSBCA]

[quote="desert dog"]I may go, BUT when that Berkley Professor starts babbling about global warming in getting drunk [/quote]

Then ask him if humans are causing Global Warming on Mars... since the Mars Polar Ice Caps are also melting!

[REDxj5150]

Geologists deal in paleoclimate. They don't give a hoot about "global warming." new directive on that phrase anyway. It's now called "climate change" because they're finding that some areas of the world are cooling and some are warming, but the general consensus now is that these are just predictable cycles, and this cycle is just more intense than previous ones. Global warming is just a political problem used to brain wash stupid college students into being environmental activists.