UVM geology and forestry student Abby Baker shows off a freshly augered sample of soil while helping to conduct a geological survey of the Brookfield quandrangle, last week. A part of the geologist Steven Wright's glacial geology course, the survey's goal is to determine the geological boundaries of ice-age deposits of glacial till, silt, and alluvia in plot stretching from East Brookfield to Williamstown. (Herald / Dylan Kelley)