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Bio 401/501
Wildflower Identification for the Layperson
3 credit hours
June 16 - July 4, 8:00 – 10:45 AM
(Includes several local field trips and some additional field work)
Fee: $475 for non-credit students. For credit students pay 3 hours tuition plus books.
Scope: Identification of herbaceous wildflowers in east-central Indiana. Content includes ethics of plant collecting, processing specimens (e.g., pressing, drying and mounting on herbarium sheets), vegetative morphology of flowering plants (e.g., roots, stems and leaves), flower structure and function, inflorescence types, and fruit types identification. Students will be introduced to the proper use of a plant identification key and will make a collection of wildflowers for future reference.
For information, contactDonald G. Ruch, Biology Department, CL 223D, 765-285-8829 or druch@bsu.edu
Summer Semester
GEOL 299X, Section 001U
Geologic Field Tour
Reference Number: 19172
3 credit hours
May 7-11
Scope: The class will travel a loop through Indiana and northern Illinois, camping on the way. Explore a river by canoe, hike sandstone and limestone canyons, investigate caves, trek beaches and sand dunes, experience landforms and the processes that shape them, first-hand. (Note: the sites visited are different from those on the GEOL 450 Geology of Indiana itinerary.) Grading is CR-NCR, based on participation and a field notebook with short written assignments.
Instructor: Dr. Scott Rice-Snow, Department of Geology
Registration and Fees: Please register by April 16th. Est. $240 trip fee covers transportation, camping, meals, rentals and admissions. Added to the off-campus workshop tuition, this totals less than 3 cr. summer on-campus course enrollment.
Second Summer 2008
GEOL 480/580, Section 001U
Indiana Landscapes Field Tour
Reference Number for GEOL 480 -19368
Reference Number for GEOL 580 -19385
3 credit hours
June 16-20
Location: Off-campus
Scope:The one-week field class will travel a loop through Indiana and northern Illinois, camping each night. Our focus will be on earth surface processes and landforms, including river features, karst, wind and shoreline processes, weathering and seepage features in limestone and sandstone terrain. We'll be doing lots of hiking and a day of canoeing. Grading is based on participation and a field notebook with short written assignments.
Itinerary:
June 16-Driftwood River Canoeing, Columbus (Bedford area)
June 17-Blue Springs Cavern Trip and McCormick's Creek Hikes
June 18-Shades Canyon Hikes and Arrive Starved Rock, Overview Hike
June 19-Starved Rock Canyon Hikes, Arrive Indiana Dunes, Sunset Hike
June 20-Indiana Dunes Hike, Drive to Muncie
Instructor: Dr. Scott Rice-Snow, Professor of Geology
Second Summer 2008 Extended
GEOL 450/550
Geology of Indiana
Reference Number for GEOL 450 - 19725
Reference Number for GEOL 550 - 19733
3 credit hours
July 21-25, 9:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Location: Off-campus (Daily trips from Muncie)
Fee:Tuition plus $45 transportation fee, daily quizzes, fossil collection, three geologic map projects, graduate credit paper.
Scope:
July 21 Bedrock and glacial geology of east-central Indiana (Delaware and Madison Counties). Classroom study of Indiana geologic history, maps and cross-sections. Field trip to a local quarry and Pendleton falls. Construct a cross-section drawing.
July 22 Ordovician paleontology and stratigraphy of the Richmond-Brookville region Collect and identify abundant brachiopods, bryozoans, corals, mollusks, trilobites, and echinoderms.
July 23 Geology of the Silurian reefs in the vicinity of Wabash, IN Collect fossils and draw a cross-section diagram of the reef exposure. Visit another nearby reef.
July 24 Carboniferous (Mississippian – Pennsylvanian) geology of western Indiana Examine a rock exposure, collect plant fossils and draw a cross-section map. A side trip to Cataract Falls
July 25 Falls of the Ohio and Lost River Look for geodes near Bloomington.
Instructor: Charles Betz, Instructor of Geology
