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Touch down in Lafayette! Look how friendly the airport is!
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The taxis are scary... spinner hubcaps! The inside was way scarier...
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Yes I am a dork, I took a picture of the granite counter top. The Hilton is awesome! =)
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Harry Roberts, our brave field trip leader from LSU.
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This is how you gather up as a group on the Atchafalaya River. See how safe we are in our life-vests???
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The group beached on part of the new delta. The place was muddy and so much fun. Possibly the first time barefoot on a field trip...
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This is part of the device that takes vibracores. We just basically stood around and watched. I left my camera-phone on the boat cause I was afraid of slipping in the mud and ending up in the water.
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More walking around on newly forming bars in the river. This one was sandy enough not to cause slippage problems.
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These are the way you get pipelines across the river. This is the piece on the side, it is really quite cool looking.
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The muddy river on the right is the Mississippi, the muddy area to the left of that is the Atchafalaya Bay.
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Landsat of the Wax Lake Delta. I'm pretty sure that we were on the middle part of the delta.
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Stolen image from Google maps showing the Wax versus Atchafalaya Deltas. The delta on the right is the Atchafalaya and is heavily engineered by the Army Core of Engineers. The Wax Lake Delta is all natural.
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The problem with being soooo white before going to the river. I even used sunscreen!
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An awesome give-a-way of Dinosaur eggs. Too bad for me I can't win prizes at conventions - it's against company policy. *sigh*
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This is from the plane coming into Houston. The channel looking feature is the Intercoastal Waterway - built during World War II to protect the US shipping. It crossed the Atchafalaya River, but that picture was not that exciting. Look it up on Google Earth/Maps, it goes from Mexico to the East Coast. Very cool!
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One of the best parts of conferences - the free swag! And my toes... =)
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