Colorado Rocky Mountain School’s Kayo Ogilby
Wednesday, February 24th, 7:00 pm at Dos Gringos, Carbondale, CO
From teaching the life and physical sciences to coaching kayaking, mountain unicycling and telemark skiing, Colorado Rocky Mountain School’s Kayo Ogilby is as talented as he is academically and athletically diverse. Born and raised in Vail, CO, after graduating from college in 1996 he returned to Colorado and took a position at the Colorado Rocky Mountain School, where he has been teaching and coaching ever since.
During his first year teaching at CRMS Kayo met student Burch Fisher who he shared many common interests with from competitive kayaking to telemark skiing to geology. After Burch graduated from CRMS, he attended Middlebury where he majored in Geology and then went on to get a Masters degree from Dartmouth and a PhD from UC Santa Barbara. Over the years, Kayo and Burch stayed in touch, including while Kayo was getting his Masters degree at Columbia during a one-year sabbatical from CRMS. But most recently, Burch was able to secure a grant from GSA for a geologic research trip to the Himalaya and it included funding for a high school teacher to accompany him as a research assistant - Kayo was his obvious choice.
This past fall, Kayo and Burch headed to northern India with a geologic expedition to determine if the amount of precipitation a mountain range receives has any bearing on the rate in which the mountain uplifts and subsequently erodes. Kayo will be presenting their team’s finding in addition to showing photos from their extraordinary trip to one of the wildest and most remote corners of the world, where road slides dictate travel options and a several day trek with hundreds of pounds of gear is a way of life. Please join us for Kayo’s photos and stories of this once-in-a-lifetime trip and research opportunity.
For more information on Colorado Rocky Mountain School please go to www.crms.org
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