Steven Dutch, Natural and Applied Sciences, University
of Wisconsin - Green Bay
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To relieve pressure on the UW-Green Bay server, the pages here have been relocated on the UW-System GeoWeb server. The link to my home page there is:
http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/projects/geoweb/participants/dutch/index.htm
All the links below are live and will take you to the corresponding GeoWeb page.
Web pages, like peanut butter, can be "creamy" or "chunky." Creamy sites have small pages that load quickly. I prefer chunky. It may take a while to download, but once you have it, everything is there.
"Virtual Field Trip" is a contradiction in terms to some extent. But a page with lots of text and few pictures is the worst contradiction in terms of all. It's no more a field trip than a slide show is a field trip. What separates a virtual field trip from a mere site description is enough pictures to give a fairly complete sense of what a place is like, and enough pictures to allow serendipity so that, just like on a real field trip, a viewer might notice something new. I have lots and lots of pictures. It's not the same as being there, but perhaps if you ever do go to any of these places, you can have some idea what to look for and be able to recognize things as you see them.
Ideally, every picture should be a complete 360-degree pan in all directions with extremely high resolution. The technology isn't quite there yet, both with regard to digital photography or the ability of servers to cope with the amount of data. Nobody would be happier than me to serve up my photos at full resolution instead of the tiny format on these pages.
I didn't set out to get interested in the Missoula Floods but a Geological Society of America field trip in 1994 was too good to pass up and another trip in 2003 allowed me to see the entire system.
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Created 15 May 2001, Last Update 17 August 2004
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