Alaska Quaternary Center Field Work

Duane Froese and John Westgate clearing sections and collecting paleomag and tephra samples on the Yukon River, east central Alaska. Joint project between researchers at AQC (UAF), Simon Frazer University and Toronto University. Photo by Doug Wilder, NPS.

Paul Matheus and Duane Froese clearing sections and collecting paleoecological samples on the Yukon River, east central Alaska. The field party's camp is on the island in the background. Joint project between researchers at AQC (UAF), Simon Frazer University and Toronto University (photo by Doug Wilder, NPS).

Mat Wooller crossing a creek during a reconnaissance mission to find the Buzzard Creek Maars (photo by Sarah Fowell).

Andy Krumhardt and Bruce Finney work on Oops Lake coring.

Mat Wooller coring the larger of the two Maars (Photo by Sarah Fowell).

Setting up camp during the second Buzzard Creek Maars reconnaisance mission (photo by Sarah Fowell).

Quaternary field work on the Yukon River in east central Alaska. L-R Brent Alloway, Grant Zazula, John Westgate, Nancy Bigelow, Duane Froese (photo by Paul Matheus)

Jim Beget and AQC Student Representative Emily Molhoek describe soil horizons in a trench along a thrust fault in the Alaska Range (photo by Patty Burns).

The Elusive Buzzard Creek Maars (Photo by Sarah Fowell).