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Geology Off Campus Trip – Summer ’00

By Contributing Writer on August 30, 2000

Click the image below to launch a slideshow of images from the trip.

Student posing with recently purchased jerky

Emily Hirshorn gives a few tips on proper O.C. nutrition.

Students and faculty pose in front of a canyon

Not a bad way to spend a summer! Tim Glotch, Emily Hirshorn, Caroline Olson, Gary Braham and Karen Harpp

Students sit on a group on a dock at a lake

Rob Otto, Caroline Olson, Dan Grady, Tim Glotch, Emily Hirshorn, Lisa Schulte and Christy Visaggi relax on the Canada Lake Store docks

People pose in front of a large rock wall

Lisa Schulte, Dorsey Wanless, and Rob Otto ponder the immensity of it all.

Students pose in children's cowboy hats

Dorsey Wanless, Lisa Mayhew, Emily Hishorn and Jann Vendetti

Students walking through a forest of aspens

Mapping among the Aspens

Students pose in front of a canyon

Caroline Olson, Emily Hirshorn, Rob Otto and Lisa Shulte

Group posing with shovels near Otter Lake

The Group at Otter Lake in the Adirondacks. Left to right: Jann Vendetti, Rob Otto, Dan Grady, Davin Hanson, Rich April, Dorsey Wanless, Caroline Olson, Di Keller, Christy Visaggi, Lisa Mayhew, Tim Glotch, Emily Hirshorn, Gary Braham, Lisa Schulte

Art and Dorsey relaxing at camp.

Art and Dorsey relaxing at camp.

Professor Bruce Selleck putting his hands in the air.

Bruce has had enough.

Student laying on his back on a cooler.

Davin Hanson – On the rocks?

Student in the water, with only his face exposed to the air.

Davin Hanson doing some water testing.

Student wearing a coat on her head, sitting in a soil pit.

Lisa Schulte guards her pH meter during the “Guess the soil pH” contest.

Coglate geology student covered waist-deep in soil.

Dorsey Wanless just didn’t want to leave her soil pit.

 

Environmental Geology Class Trip to Centralia Coal Mine: October ’99

By Contributing Writer on October 31, 1999

In 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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Student gives a thumbs up next to a lump of coal labeled as 3 tons

Thumbs up! That’s one big lump of coal!

Students talking amongst one another

Here we go!

Students in waiting area

It’s cold in there!

Student group poses for a photo in the coal mine

The group

Students listen to cola mine guide

Our guide – Thanks Howie!

Spring Break Field Trip to San Salvador Island, Bahamas: March ’99

By Contributing Writer on February 8, 1999

Eight 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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Students pose for a photo on the beach

Survivors of the first snorkel dive on “Dump Reef”

Two students review papers at a table.

Jann Vendetti and Kate Clark work in the lab on algae identification

Students pose next to a cross on the beach

Posing at the site where Christopher Columbus first reached the New World

Students laying in the sand

Becoming a part of the sedimentary record in Fernandez Bay

Students snorkeling in the water

Snorkelers in Pigeon Creek

Students point at an area of an exposed Pleistocene reef on the beach

Discovering ecological baselines in Pleistocene reefs of Grotto Bay

Students pose for a photo around a coral on a beach

Encircling a Pleistocene fossil of brain coral, Diploria strigosa

An underwater image of a fish and coral

A juvenile blue tang nibbling algae growing on common star coral, Montastrea annularis, in Snapshot Reef.

Geology Off Campus – Summer ’98

By dkeller on June 30, 1998

Click here for Bruce Selleck’s travelog of the Canyon Loop segment of OC ’98.

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Our gang at the world's best fold - West Castelton in the Taconics

Our gang at the world’s best fold – West Castelton in the Taconics

 

Dave Sunderlin, Brian Flynn and Cathy Bosek prepare 'kabobs' at Crown Point Campground.

Dave Sunderlin, Brian Flynn and Cathy Bosek prepare ‘kabobs’ at Crown Point Campground.

Pat Grassl and Dave Sunderlin ponder the slates at Cedar Point Quarry near Lake Bomoseen in the Taconics.

Pat Grassl and Dave Sunderlin ponder the slates at Cedar Point Quarry near Lake Bomoseen in the Taconics.

Bryan Carahan, Brian Flynn, Tony Shaw and Paul Pinet atop Cascade Mountain - Adirondack High Peaks.

Bryan Carahan, Brian Flynn, Tony Shaw and Paul Pinet atop Cascade Mountain – Adirondack High Peaks.

The gang at Loveland Pass

The gang at Loveland Pass – back row: Jedd Steinglas, Steve Close, Pat Grassl, Becca Newhall, Brian Flynn, Bryan Carahan, Chip Brackett (rudder), and Tony Shaw; front row: Cathy Bosek, Sarah Tindall, Dave Sunderlin, Cobie Everdale, Ryan Faubert.

Colorado National Monument - looking northwest toward the Colorado River Valley and Grand Junction/Fruita area.

Colorado National Monument – looking northwest toward the Colorado River Valley and Grand Junction/Fruita area.

LaSal Mountains as seen from the "Little Grand Canyon", with Castle Valley in the distant mid-ground.

LaSal Mountains as seen from the “Little Grand Canyon”, with Castle Valley in the distant mid-ground.

White Rim Sandstone holding up inner canyon as viewed from Island in the Sky overlook - Canyonlands National Park.

White Rim Sandstone holding up inner canyon as viewed from Island in the Sky overlook – Canyonlands National Park.

South Portal - Entrada Sandstone - Arches National Park

South Portal – Entrada Sandstone – Arches National Park

Bryce Canyon from Sunset Point - Claron Formation

Bryce Canyon from Sunset Point – Claron Formation

Cathy Bosek admires the Navajo Sandstone from the Zion Tunnel Overlook.

Cathy Bosek admires the Navajo Sandstone from the Zion Tunnel Overlook.

The inner canyon from Cape Royal.

The inner canyon from Cape Royal.

Geology Off Campus Trip – Summer ’96

By Contributing Writer on August 30, 1996

Click here for Bruce Selleck’s travel log of the Canyon Loop segment of OC ’96.

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Twilight at Molas Lake, Colorado

Twilight at Molas Lake, Colorado, home of our week long mapping segment

 

The group at Arches National Park

The group at Arches National Park

Faculty members draw on a whiteboard outdoors

On the “Island in the Sky” Prof. James (Chief) McLelland teaches the tectonic history of the Basin and Range Province and the Rockies using Prof. Bruce Selleck as an easel.

The group at the Colorado National Monument

The group at the Colorado National Monument

Students sit on the ground with mountains in the background

For geology majors the O.C. is more than just a field camp it is a whole lot of fun too.

A group of students poses for a photo

A group effort – Molas Lake, CO

Student tucks her head into her shirt to keep away flies

Laura Castleberry demonstrates how to agree with Chief that “there are no blackflies in the Adirondacks.”

A student uses a shovel ineffectively

Chris Grugan on “How to use a shovel”

Faculty member prepares a sonar device on the deck of a boat

Professor Charlie McClennen demonstrates the sub-bottom profiler on Seneca Lake, NY.

Geology Off Campus Trip – Summer ’95

By Contributing Writer on August 30, 1995

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Group of students at scenic outlook at Zion National Park, Utah

The Whole Gang Zion National Park, Utah

Students in a small vessel on Lake Ontario

Reed and Cat, Lake Ontario

Students pose in cowboy hats a Bryce Canyon, Utah

Bryce Canyon, Utah