{"id":206596,"date":"2022-06-30T18:04:29","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T22:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/?p=206596"},"modified":"2022-06-30T18:04:29","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T22:04:29","slug":"reaching-new-heights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/2022\/06\/30\/reaching-new-heights\/","title":{"rendered":"Reaching New Heights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a summer field program studying the geological wonders of the American West, Kerry Murphy, a senior who will graduate in August with a degree in Earth and Environmental Science, says she\u2019s now prepared to dig deeper to better understand the world beneath our feet.<\/p>\n<p>Murphy was among nine Â鶹´«Ã½ÔÚÏß students who joined an expedition led by Associate Professor <a href=\"\/~gorringm\">Matthew Gorring<\/a> in the College of Science and Mathematics\u2019 Field Geology course (<a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.montclair.edu\/search\/?search=eaes+404\">EAES 404<\/a>) to study ancient rocks and glaciers for geologic mapping.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Not only did I get to see some of the most beautiful parts of the country, but I also got to learn about [the Rockies] from a rare and special perspective, a geologic one. Structural geology, stratigraphy, plate tectonics, geologic mapping and sediment identification \u2013 it\u2019s one thing seeing these geologic structures in a textbook or PowerPoint, but having the opportunity to see them in person gave me a much better understanding of so many concepts.<\/p>\n<footer><cite>Kerry Murphy<\/cite><\/footer>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The geologic wonders were just part of the experience as the students also discovered the impact of natural disasters exacerbated by human-induced climate change as they explored different areas of the iconic landscapes of Yellowstone National Park, the Grand Tetons, Montana and Wyoming.<\/p>\n<p>Read more on the <a href=\"\/newscenter\/2022\/06\/29\/reaching-new-heights\/\">University Press Room<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Student researchers study geologic wonders of the American West to help them protect earth\u2019s resources<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":206597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206598,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206596\/revisions\/206598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}