Kitty helping us as we work on our final write ups On Thursday, Friday, and Saturday we finished our write-ups, a final paper totaling 28 pages and a PowerPoint presentation. On last look at the Yantra House Then on Sunday we debriefed as a group on our experience and presented our projects to each other …

Continue reading The Final Days

For the final course of SIT's summer program, everyone completes a 15 day independent project somewhere in Kathmandu Valley or the surrounding mountains alone or with one partner. After five weeks of being together as a large group, with leaders arranging our transportation and food and housing, now we will do it all alone with …

Continue reading The Patan Pani’s

Debris flow associated with an earthquake and dam outburst flood Sketching the site...Gabion walls under high pressureMapping scarps from afar For the final portion of our geohazards course, we will be focusing on engineering geology, specifically related to landslide hazard mitigation. There are two main projects we have to tackle, in the first we assess …

Continue reading Engineering Geology from Pokhara to Kathmandu

Pretty views as we hiked down.... Now that our first course on Field Methods is complete we get to move on to the next course, Earth and Human Systems, which is more in line with my passions. The first project for this class will be completed as we embark on our return trek down the …

Continue reading Trash, Sewage, and Free Food Experiences

For our brief time off following the mapping project, we are staying in the town of Kagbeni. Despite how far into the mountains it is, the town of Kagbeni is actually comparatively large and modern. This is likely because of its proximity to the famous pilgrimage destination Muktinath. The first day off we explored the …

Continue reading Fire, Water, Earth, Sky, Air, and Stratigraphy

Friends and views during our lunch stop in Pokhara. The small town of Tatopani is situated anywhere from a four hour to a eight hour bus ride from Pokhara. Tatopani (hot water) is named for the natural hot springs that occur there. Just a few steps up from the rushing, muddy waters of the Kali …

Continue reading Dal-Bhat Power- 24 Hours (also mapping and cross-sections)

Well as I should have suspected, it’s been rather difficult to get any WiFi in remote mountain villages in Nepal! So here’s a post from a few weeks ago. Wow what a week it’s been!  Since so much has happened in this short week I am going to try to tell this story in mostly …

Continue reading Hello and Goodbye to Kathmandu: It’s Been Gneiss

Hi all! Welcome to my blog, "Pomona Geology: Nepal 2019," or as my brother likes to call it, "ROCKS: Up High and Way Over There." My name is Gigi and I am a rising Junior at Pomona College. With the generous help of the Pomona Geology Department and the GSA Field Camp Scholar award, this …

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