I'm immensely enjoying my return to full-time faculty this academic year (2024-25). I wrote a couple of long-neglected papers during my fall sabbatical and enjoyed a bit of traveling, first to the west to see the spectacular and misnamed Crater Lake and the fabulous Redwoods, then to the Sedona Red Rocks district and the Grand Canyon. I love seeing anything that's Grand or Great!
I'm teaching both Structural Geology and Earth Materials II (formerly Petrology) this semester, which means I get to lead two fieldtrips in April! I'm first heading to Maryland and West Virginia with 30 students in Structure to do their first mapping project (Mill Creek Mountain strip maps) and then taking 15 students to the Grandfather Mountain Tectonic Window in the region of Boone, North Carolina. Yet another 'Grand' area to visit!
Please drop by and say hi sometime!
Daniel Holm
