We have the most extraordinary line-up of opportunities and experts this month. We have to be the luckiest expeditionary crew in the country thanks to our phenomenal parents!
 
Kevin Bumen made it possible for our crew to film the Sierra Nevada Mountains and volcanoes from the air!  With cinematographer Doug McMains aboard, Cole and Spencer shot the breathtaking landscape from Truckee to Mt Lassen and across the Sierra Buttes. What a once-in-a-lifetime trip and some spectacular footage for the crew’s film!alt

Bill Hammond, our resident geophysicist, has generously volunteered to share his love of all things earth science. We are smack dab in the middle of a case study on Mountain Formation and Earthquakes and he is the perfect person to deepen our understanding of the forces that shape our state. Bill has an impressive and extensive geologic background and we are excited!

Doug Stoup, (http://www.iceaxe.tv/iceaxe-kids/)
will also be giving a presentation to our crew. He was originally contacted by our students (thanks, Kaya!) as an expert to interview for the documentary and generously offered to include our crew in a web teleconference with him on his next expedition to Antarctica! He is leaving in 4 weeks and we will be able to join him via technology – another wow for our crew!
 
In addition to all of the above, Frank DeCourten, Dean of the Sierra College – Tahoe/Truckee Center has agreed to be interviewed by our crew for the documentary. Frank has written four books (Earth Essays, Shadows of Time, Dinosaurs of Utah, and The Broken Land) and has produced 3 educational videos, so his expertise will lend another excellent dimension to our student’s knowledge and subsequent film!