2010 UNAVCO Science Workshop - Field Trips

Shaping of the Front Range Field Trip led by Bob Anderson, University of Colorado – 1:00pm to 4:00pm

Dr. Anderson will lead the half day field trip out of Boulder that will extend the temporal scale of uplift and landscape evolution. It will focus broadly on evolution and uplift of the Rocky Mountains, with focus on these themes:

• Development and chronology of the pediment surfaces, including Rocky Flats, and the uplift story that they tell River incision processes, rates, implications for tectonics and climate
• Evolution of the Rocky Mountain Surface and glacial chiseling of the core of the range
• Timing of landscape evolution, including chronology from moraines, and glacial polish/deglaciation
• The powerful new capabilities that are enabled by integration of cosmogenic dating in concert with GPS geodesy

The Field Trip fee is $20 per seat.  Please indicate if you are interested on the Registration form.

Buses will load outside of the main entrance of the Millennium Hotel at 1:00pm and will return at 4:00pm.

Tour of the UNAVCO Facilities – 1:00pm to 2:30pm

This tour is concurrent with the Front Range Field Trip. This tour will highlight the engineering, equipment and data archive facilities and infrastructure in the UNAVCO Boulder office. Concurrently there will be Hands-on Terrestrial Laser Scanning demonstrations in the UNAVCO Classroom (description below). Please indicate if you are interested on the Registration Form. There is not a fee associated with this Tour.

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Hands-on Demonstration of UNAVCO's New Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) Instruments

This session will allow participants to get a hands-on look at UNAVCO's TLS instruments including an introduction to scanner operation and data collection. Four TLS instruments are currently part of the UNAVCO instrument pool: 1) Riegl LMS-Z620, 2) Riegl VZ-400, 3) Leica ScanStation C10, and 4) Optech ILRIS 3D. Each scanner has unique capabilities with regard to imaging resolution, range, data collection rate and other attributes. This session is a unique opportunity to see these different instruments side by side in one place and will be of interest to experienced users and new users alike.