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31 July 2011
Agouron Photo Album
I lieu of detailed blog posts covering the rest of my Agouron trip, I’ll let these pictures do the talking (along with my annotations).
20 July 2011
Agouron Day 1: Introduction and Kam Kotia Mine Tailings
The Kam Kotia mine site is famous for being an environmental disaster. Mines tend to dump their ground-up waste rock into a reservoir nearby, typically a lake, where the finely ground rocks rapidly alter leading to nasty acidic chemicals that tend to make the area uninhabitable for a while. The Kam Kotia tailings have been partially “reclaimed” but the area is still pretty devastated.
19 July 2011
Agouron Geobiology Field School!
Greetings from scenic Timmins Ontario! I will be spending the next 9 days with a bunch of geologists, biologists, chemists, planetary scientists, and all around smart people, learning about the geology of the Abitibi Greenstone Belt near Timmins. In particular, we will be talking a lot about the origin of life, and how this chunk of ancient crust on Earth can (or cannot) be used as an analog for Mars …
