Nadine McQuarrie

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Field photos

Our research takes us to beautiful, remote regions where work does not always go as planned.

Timor-Leste (East Timor) years 2005 and 2010

the coast road work getting gas

fatu villages curious kids

sunset I Sunset II Nadine

Douwe Cecilia the route

Car in Mud looking south towards foreland Garrett

Soibada folks the descent from Hili Manu Nadine and Garrett

The trail lunch mud!

2010 was a bit wet -- Douwe trying to get to the airport Nadine trying to get to the Airport.

Bhutan (Eastern Himalayas) years 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010 and 2012

Chorten Mountains field work

Gear and ponies Lunch Leeches

Fellow traveler Full leech The crew (minus Tobgay)

High Himalayas Planning the route Prayer flags

Yaks glacier dams snowman trek

the descent Alpine glow Tobgay and Sean

high Himalayas Sean Tobgay and Nadine

peppers fields maps

Balancing Looking south to the foreland little monks

de-nesting buckets Sean Uplifted terraces at MFT

the buried foreland, west Bhutan Sean and Tobgay in Kalikhola working hard

the crew the route Dzo (half yak/half cow)

Main Boundary Thrust (MBT), lesser Himalayan rocks over Siwalik group rocks. Close up on right. This is where we met the King.

evening light on Siwalik hills. His majesty Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuk, the 5th king of Bhutan, and queen Jetsun Pema.