{"id":18951,"date":"2019-03-14T10:17:47","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T14:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugaresearch.uga.edu\/?p=18951"},"modified":"2019-09-27T13:55:27","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T17:55:27","slug":"himalayan-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/himalayan-hike\/","title":{"rendered":"Himalayan hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"no-dropcap\">\u201cI love glaciated environments,\u201d says David Porinchu (center), associate professor of geography. \u201cI\u2019ve always wanted to work in the Himalayas, and it doesn\u2019t get more glaciated than that.\u201d Porinchu spent six months in India last year as a Fulbright Scholar, collecting lake sediment cores from 15 lakes across an 11,000-foot range of elevation. In May, he and his team\u2014including students and staff from Kumaun University\u2014hiked to Deoria Tal (\u201ctal\u201d means \u201clake\u201d) in the Garhwal Himalayas in the state of Uttarakhand. (Left to right) Harish Bisht, Ph.D. student; Prem Bisht, department staff; Porinchu; Bittu Singh, department staff; and Kishan Kotliya, a local driver, carried tubes used to protect lake sediment cores. Master\u2019s student Emily Niederman is analyzing the cores\u2014which represent from 100 to 5,000-plus years, depending on length\u2014to reconstruct the long-term evolution of climate in this region.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI love glaciated environments,\u201d says David Porinchu (center), associate professor of geography. \u201cI\u2019ve always wanted to work in the Himalayas, and it doesn\u2019t get more glaciated than that.\u201d Porinchu spent six months in India last year as a Fulbright Scholar, collecting lake sediment cores from 15 lakes across an 11,000-foot range of elevation. In May, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/himalayan-hike\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Himalayan hike&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82,"featured_media":21669,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"look-single.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[222],"tags":[],"post_medium":[316],"publications":[],"authors":[],"photographers":[425],"video_credit":[],"takeaways":[],"class_list":["post-18951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sustainability","post_medium-look","photographers-harish-bisht","entry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/82"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18951"},{"taxonomy":"post_medium","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_medium?post=18951"},{"taxonomy":"publications","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publications?post=18951"},{"taxonomy":"authors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/authors?post=18951"},{"taxonomy":"photographers","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/photographers?post=18951"},{"taxonomy":"video_credit","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/video_credit?post=18951"},{"taxonomy":"takeaways","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/takeaways?post=18951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}