Special Report: Field Geology in China, 2017

This video documents the Field Geology in China summer program, held in June 2017, in Guizhou and Yunnan. Dr. Dan Lehrmann, professor of geology at Trinity University, led the program, together with Dr. Josie Liu from Trinity and Dr. Thomas Adams from Witte Museum.

During the three-week journey, 12 Trinity students worked closely with 13 students from Guizhou University and Guizhou Normal University, led by Professor Youyi Yu, on field geology, research and cultural exchange.

The program was one of several Trinity University's faculty-led study abroad summer programs in 2017.

Trinity Students Spend Spring Break in One of the World’s Top Geosciences Labs

Joshua Hernandes and Bethany Rysak in the
geoscience lab at Stanford University
Photo by Kathleen Surpless

By Nate Borchers

Bethany Rysak and Joshua Hernandez, two Trinity University students, went to California for the Spring Break.

But no, they didn’t get sun bathing on the beach. Instead, they submerged themselves in the geosciences laboratory at Stanford University.

In the lab, one of the world’s most advanced fallibilities of its kind, Rysak, a sophomore, and Hernandez, a senior, both majoring in geosciences, studied rock samples from sunny California’s Sierra Nevada mountain chain. So perhaps Rysak and Hernandez can still check off the “exotic location” box for their Spring Break.