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The group prepares to test stream water chemistry
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By Contributing Writer on October 15, 2002Click the image below to launch a slideshow of images from the trip.
Stromatolite heads, Saratoga NY
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Environmental Geology Class Trip to Centralia Coal Mine: October ’99
By Contributing Writer on October 31, 1999In early October 1999 Amy Leventer’s Environmental Geology class took a day trip to Centralia, Pennsylvania to get a firsthand look at coal mining and its environmental impacts.
The tour of the mine was fascinating. It allowed the students to see massive coal seams running through the tilted rock layers, and also gave them an appreciation for the working conditions and hazards that miners face. One special aspect of the Centralia region is that some of the coal seams have been burning underground since 1962. All efforts to put these fires out have failed. The toxic fumes produced from the fires have forced people to vacate their homes, leaving Centralia a modern-day ghost town.
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Thumbs up! That’s one big lump of coal!
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Spring Break Field Trip to San Salvador Island, Bahamas: March ’99
By Contributing Writer on February 8, 1999Eight students in Connie Soja’s Seminar on Reefs (Geology 426) spent spring break in the Bahamas with Connie and her husband, Brian White (Smith College), exploring Pleistocene and modern reefs on San Salvador Island. Students focused on identifying coral, algal, and fish communities to determine guilds and diversity trends in nearshore and offshore reefs.
Underwater cameras and slates facilitated data collection and recording, including recognition of the widespread decline of the staghorn coral (Acropora cervicornis) in the Bahamas and Caribbean. Exciting encounters with Great Barracudas, turtles, spotted rays, parrotfish, and a diversity of scleractinian corals (remember from Paleo class??) made the trip a wonderful educational exercise! Thanks to Colgate and the Geology Department for funds that subsidized the costs of this trip.
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Survivors of the first snorkel dive on “Dump Reef”
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