Thanks to Carolina Rojas (College of the Desert) and Callan Bentley (Piedmont Virginia Community College) for leading a group 25 educators (and an undergrad!) on a great two-day field trip surrounding the Imperial Valley. While we all learned some great geology, I personally enjoyed time at each stop to have group conversations about various teaching strategies and pedagogy in the field. Many excellent ideas were shared and some of them will definitely make an appearance in my future field study trips. Below are all of the resources I made based on the trip. Photo albums, 3D Models of the mud volcanoes, hi-resolution photospheres, and even the GPS tracks from the trip can all be found below.
Photo Album (Not 360)
The links below provide regular ol' photos from the various stops of the field trip when I wasn't making 360 images. Stops include:
Day 1: Lower Fish Creek Wash, Split Mountain Sturzstrom Megabreccia (Upper Fish Creek Wash), Wind Caves Hike, Fonts Point Overlook & Group Photos
Day 2: Red Hills Volcanics, Painted Canyon Unconformity
Day 1: Lower Fish Creek Wash, Split Mountain Sturzstrom Megabreccia (Upper Fish Creek Wash), Wind Caves Hike, Fonts Point Overlook & Group Photos
Day 2: Red Hills Volcanics, Painted Canyon Unconformity
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Hi-Res 360 Photos of Trip Stops
The tour posted below is a very rough draft and hasn't been edited other than to add several pop-up 3D Models. One each in the Mud Volcano Stop Split Mountain Sturzstrom 1 and Split Mountain Sturzstrom 2 Stop.
- Don't forget to use the hyper-zoom to see some really cool stuff!
- To make the tour go full screen, double click anywhere on the tour.
- There are 10 stops in this tour (some are redundant). Use the thumbnails bar at the top of the tour to hop to different stops. It has a slider to get to the latter stops if you're on a smaller screen.
- To embed this into your website or Canvas, copy and paste following code into the "EMBED" dialog box in Canvas or your website:
<iframe src="https://mrhollister.com/360/GSA2024/" width="850" height="600" allowFullScreen></iframe>
If you want to link directly to a specific scene - "I want my students to jump right into the Unconformity"- You can use the following link and change the number at the end (highlighted in red) to represent the order of the thumbnail on the menu. In this case, the Unconformity scene is the eighth thumbnail, so I changed the number to 8. Clicking on that link will directly take you to that scene.
https://mrhollister.com/360/GSA2024/index.htm?media-index=8
https://mrhollister.com/360/GSA2024/index.htm?media-index=8
GPS Tracks and Map Overview
Clicking on the links will open up a secondary map that will give you the option to download the GPS Tracks.
Scanned 3D Models
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Mud volcano model made with traditional photogrammetry (Agisoft Metashape software) and Nikon Z8 camera. Note that some input images were blurry due to a slow shutter speed and my impatience which caused a less-than-perfect output. Two hours of computation led to a model with 300 Million points and super-high resolution that had to be down-sampled for posting to Sketchfab. Mud volcano is about 8 feet tall.
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Mud volcano model made with IPhone LiDAR app (Scaniverse) in about five minutes of scanning and processing. Mud volcano is about 8 feet tall.
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Large blocks of Miocene-aged Lycium Sandstone lying in Fish Creek Wash. The larges block on the left measures 10' x 10' x 17'. Scanned with iPhone LiDAR and Scaniverse app.
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If you can't get enough of models, follow the button below to open my complete gallery of models. All of which can be easily embedded or linked.
Resources & Tutorials for Creating Virtual Field Experiences
Please see the resources I have listed under "Geoscience"->"Conference Resources" at the top right side of the header on my website for an exhaustive list of information. Below is a photogrammetry video I made for AGI Earth Science Week 2023.