My Dear Wyoming, Thank you for reminding me how small I am, Wyoming. Accepting our insignificance on a greater scale is really difficult, and understanding that the world does not only revolve around us is even harder. It is something complex, alive, and working on such a larger scale that none of us can fully…
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Wyoming Spring Creek – Thermopolis and Museum Ethics
Thermopolis, or “Thermy” as I have dubbed it, was the second stop on our trip around the state. The day started not in Thermopolis, but at a gap between time. We had visited a site just off of the road where we stayed for quite a bit. We were let loose onto the rock face…
Wyoming Spring Creek – Carbon Sequestration -Cretaceous to Now
When I was younger, I remember waking up early on a cold January morning, anxiously waiting to see if I would have a snow day or not. As I was not heavily reliant on coffee yet, I would sit with hot chocolate in hand by the light of our Christmas tree we had yet to…
Wyoming Spring Creek – Earth’s Intersectionality
4.5 billion years. No one can truly comprehend how large that number is, let alone imagine something taking that long. However, that is earth. Just 4.5 billion years of heat and gas that somehow churned out us. There is so much ambiguity shrouding what we are and how we came to live in this modern…
Wyoming Spring Creek – Perceptions and Pleasantries
Severing ties with our perceptions is a difficult task. Holding on to our original presumptions and belfies about people or places is easy; it gives us a sense of security, especially when you’re being dropped into a completely foreign environment. In complete honesty, I made fairly harsh assumptions about Wyoming originally. I didn’t trust that…
Wyoming Spring Creek – Western Expanse
A good friend told me once that going to the west makes you feel like you want to run away. I didn’t fully understand what he meant until I got to Spring Creek and saw it for myself. Wyoming can almost be described in the same light as the ocean. The vast expansiveness goes on…
Wyoming Spring Creek – 001 Introduction
Hello! My name is Wray Jones and I am a rising junior at the University of Pittsburgh. Currently, I am pursuing degrees in both environmental science as well as French. In my free time, I am involved with the on campus environmental honors fraternity Epsilon Eta as a committee chair. I help plan more ways…