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Professor Catherine Johnson and students Anna Mittelholz, Megan Russell, Natasha Urbancic, Anna Grau, Georgia Peterson, Camille Defrenne, and Thomas Aubry as they wait to board a 3 am bus to view the May 5, 2018 InSight Launch to Mars. https://www.ubyssey.ca/science/ubc-prof-and-NASA-Mars-mission/?ref=frontpage

CREATE MAGNET Field course, February 2018, group photo at the Mauna Kea observatory visitor center. In this Mars analog landscape, the trainees worked on an exercice designing a Mars Rover equipped with geochemical instruments. Photo credit: D. Weis.

Active Kilauea aa lava flows, south of Kalapana on Hawaii big island. Field course, CREATE MAGNET, February 2018. 20 km hike to reach the active flows. The temperature of the lava was measured at > 1100°C.. Photo credit: D. Weis.

Prof. Mark Jellinek and PhD Candidate Anna Grau setting up their home basecamp for a three week field work adventure in Devon Island, high Arctic, studying the nature and morphology of ice sheet drainage conduits incised into the ground. The two bigger domes in the right side were our dining/research area and kitchen, separated a hundred meters from the sleeping area, which was also surrounded by a bear fence. The Haughton river valley cuts through the Haughton crater rim and ejecta deposits (the light grey domes to the left), and provided water for our camp. Photo credit: M. Jellinek

EOAS Lecturer and Pacific Museum of the Earth Director Kirsten Hodge made an appearance on Breakfast TV this morning to discuss the Kilauea eruption and to promote the Science Rendezvous happening tomorrow!

Check it out here: https://www.btvancouver.ca/videos/the-science-of-lava/