Catching up after a year + of silence

It has been over a year since I've posted on this blog, which can tell you one thing: BUSY YEAR.  Seriously, it has been a good kind of busy and somehow never got around to recording any of that hectic goodness so I'm attempting to hit the geologically important points of the past year in a few posts.  Specifically I'll try to touch on:

• My analytical trip to ASU to use the SIMS there.


• My Fall 2010 Classes: Sedimentology and Stratigraphy, Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology, Structural Geology, Isotope Geochemistry, and Cartography & GIS.


• Something on my trip to Kilbourne Hole.


• My Spring 2011 Semester: Tectonic Evolution of North America, Petroleum Geology, Global Geochemical Systems, Statistics for Engineers and Scientists, and Intro to Fluid Mechanics


• The maps our Field Class composed on weekends for the Fall 2011 semester


• Spring Break in the Los Angeles area


• Field Camp proper (a post for each of the three maps)


• Finally, a look at where I stand now and what I expect to happen in the near future (summer work plans, master's programs consideration, semester abroad in Belize)

It is a bit of a tall order after not updating for so long, but I'll try to be as thorough as a year worth of activity deserves.