Geo-Postcards from New Zealand (Nov. 16-30)

Lamington National Park (October 20-24)

On A bright Saturday morning, we met our bus at Chancellor’s Place for the 2-hour drive southwest to Lamington National Park. The Park is located on the Queensland-New South Wales border on the slopes of an enormous extinct volcano. We were lodged at O’Reilly’s Resort, and were joined there by Professor John Hall, and his tutors (Rob and Claire). The Park provided a great opportunity to see a rare example of Australia’s rainforest, which is dominated by Nothofagus beach. Students participated in several small projects to characterize the forest at lower and drier elevations with that at higher and wetter environs. We did lots of walking and even had a night walk to look at glow worms on the bank of a small creek. As has been the case for virtually all of our days in the field, we had spectacular weather!