{"id":576,"date":"2016-07-11T14:55:36","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T20:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/reccs\/?p=576"},"modified":"2016-07-11T14:55:36","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T20:55:36","slug":"i-cant-believe-were-halfway-through","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/reccs\/2016\/07\/11\/i-cant-believe-were-halfway-through\/","title":{"rendered":"I can&#8217;t believe we&#8217;re halfway through!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Sean Ross, and I\u2019m a student at Red Rocks Community College in Lakewood. This research project has been an amazing experience and I\u2019m still floored that I was selected!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve spent the past few weeks looking at the lovely Boulder Creek Granodiorite in Boulder Canyon, Colorado. My project was inspired by the observation that debris flows in the torrential September 2013 rains exposed broad tracts of bedrock that had been buried by soil representing a long period of accumulation, an average of about 400 years in the two that I\u2019ve been studying! This newly exposed bedrock offers a unique opportunity to compare its physical and chemical states with adjacent rock in outcrops that has been weathering at the surface, as well as outcrops farther up Boulder Canyon. Our hope is to get a handle on whether the rock is being digested into soil more quickly above or below the surface. We also hope to find a noticeable trend in weathering rates among the Boulder Canyon outcrops, which would support the prevailing theory of knickpoint propagation upstream as the means of canyon formation.<\/p>\n<p>This has been an awesome summer! I\u2019ve logged many hours in the field learning new techniques, I\u2019ve spent time in various labs learning how to use equipment that I wouldn\u2019t expect to have access to until graduate school, and I\u2019ve helped out with a few projects beyond the scope of my own including a Terrestrial LIDAR survey. In short, I\u2019ve been afforded an opportunity to see what it\u2019s like to really be a scientist, and also to pick up some street cred, great stories, and resume-boosting experience along the way!<\/p>\n<p>I am so grateful, not only for this tremendous opportunity provided by RECCS, but also for my fantastic teachers at Red Rocks. I would not have been ready for this without all of them, but especially Ellie Camann in the Geology department, Gayle Crane in the Chemistry department, and Adam Forland in the Math department.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_583\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/reccs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/07\/IMG_1120.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-583\" class=\"wp-image-583 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/reccs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/07\/IMG_1120-300x251.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1120\" width=\"300\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/reccs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/07\/IMG_1120-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/reccs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/07\/IMG_1120-768x643.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/reccs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/07\/IMG_1120-1024x857.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/reccs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/07\/IMG_1120.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-583\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sean at the headscarp of a debris flow.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Sean Ross, and I\u2019m a student at Red Rocks Community College in Lakewood. This research project has been an amazing experience and I\u2019m still floored that I was selected! I&#8217;ve spent the past few weeks looking at the lovely Boulder Creek Granodiorite in Boulder Canyon, Colorado. My project was inspired by the&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/reccs\/2016\/07\/11\/i-cant-believe-were-halfway-through\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reccs-2016"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-28 21:08:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/reccs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/reccs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/reccs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/reccs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/82"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/reccs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/reccs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":585,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/reccs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions\/585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/reccs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/reccs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/reccs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}