{"id":206503,"date":"2021-08-11T17:28:47","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T21:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/?p=206503"},"modified":"2021-08-11T17:28:47","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T21:28:47","slug":"when-the-wild-west-is-the-college-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/2021\/08\/11\/when-the-wild-west-is-the-college-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"When the Wild West is the College Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a year of pandemic challenges, Earth and Environmental Science majors took advantage of the world slowly reopening to travel this summer to Montana and Wyoming, where the wonders of the northern Rockies were a welcomed laboratory after a year of virtual learning.<\/p>\n<p>Associate Professor Matthew Gorring led the expedition with students in the Field Geology course gaining hands-on experience in geologic mapping of bedrock and glacial deposits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes out West you\u2019ll get surprised, not by the geology, but just by the wildlife that you come across,\u201d Gorring says.<\/p>\n<p>The summer course took place from May 24 to June 29, offering a mix of natural labs. Before heading west, the students focused on the environmental geology and hydrology projects at a preserve walking distance from the Montclair State campus.<\/p>\n<p>Photos shared by the class \u2013 seniors Matt Voelker, Ryan Munson, Matthew Munson and juniors Patrick Tuohey, Ashley Greiss, Kristen Kakascik, Rebecca Radigan, Alex McLaughlin \u2013 show the spectacular beauty of their summer laboratory.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"prpl-button\"><a href=\"\/newscenter\/2021\/07\/29\/when-the-wild-west-is-the-college-lab\/\">View Photos in the Full Article<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earth and Environmental Science majors study in the natural geologic laboratory of the Rockies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":206504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206503","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=206503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206505,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206503\/revisions\/206505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}