photo of the week

View of the Gateway Arch and the Mississippi River taken from Eads Bridge during the Earth & the Environment (EPSc 201) field trip on April 19, 2008, led by Robert Buchwaldt. The student exercise was to compare the modern Mississippi River with its historical form, using GPS and the historical map of St. Louis harbor by Robert E. Lee (1837) available at http://alabamamaps.ua.edu/historicalmaps/MississippiRiver/index.html. Photo by Bob Criss