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EARTH CAMP 97' ITINERARY

Syllabus - last revised 7/18/97 5:30 PM

Week 1, 6/9-6/13: Orientation Rock Labs, Lectures
Olsen, Barber, Gregory, Colodner

Day Day of Week Date Titles Time Place
1 Monday 6/9/97 Welcome
Colodner, Olsen, Gregory, Barber
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM Lower OC
Safety Lecture
Staff
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM Lower OC
Tour of Campus
Staff
10:00 AM - 12:30 PM Lower OC
Lunch 12:30 - 1:30 PM Canada del Oro Restaurant
Orientation Lectures
Intro. to course and themes
Goals, Expectations, and Grading
Syllabus
Turning on your Macs and email
Diagnostic exam
What is Science?
Olsen, Gregory, Barber
1:30 - 5:00 PM Lower OC
Dinner 5:30 - 7:00 PM Canada del Oro Restaurant
2 Tuesday 6/10/97 Conditioning hike, Catalina State Park
Olsen, Gregory, Barber
8:00 AM - 12:00 Noon Meet at Apartments
Lunch 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Canada del Oro Restaurant
Computer skills - File handling, Netscape
Olsen, Barber, Gregory
1:30-3:00 PM Lower OC
Environmental problems
Barber
Readings
Climate Change - read 1, 2, 5, 6, 9, 10,11, 12
Over-fishing - 1
Over-fishing - 2
3:00 - 5:00 PM Lower OC
Dinner 5:30 - 7:00 PM Canada del Oro Restaurant
3 Wednesday 6/11/97 Sonoran Desert Museum
Sornoran Desert Dinosaurs
Museum Staff and Barber, Olsen, Gregory
Readings - A new dinosaur from the Sonoran Desert
Readings - Mountain Lions 1
Readings - Mountain Lions 2
Readings - Mountain Lions 3
Readings - Mountain Lions 4
Readings - Mountain Lions 5
Readings - Mountain Lions 6
Readings - Mountain Lions 7
8:00 - 11:30 AM Meet at Apartments
Lunch 12:30 - 1:30 PM Canada del Oro Restaurant
Rock identification lab
Gregory
Appendix for interested students
3:30 - 5:00 PM Student Laboratory
Dinner 5:30 - 7:00 PM Canada del Oro Restaurant
4 Thursday 6/12/97 Principles of Taxonomy,
and Diversity of Life
Barber
Readings
Red Squirrels - 1
Red Squirrels - 2
Spotted Owls
8:00 - 10:00 AM Lower OC
Basic plant identification - on campus
Adrian Southern, Gregory, Barber,
10:00 AM - 12:00 Noon work from Lower OC
Lunch 12:30 - 1:30 PM Canada del Oro Restaurant
Basic Earth systems
Olsen
Readings - Earth's Cycles
Notes for Lecture
1:30 - 3:00 PM Lower OC
Computer skills - Excel and Surface and Canvas
Olsen
3:00 - 5:00 PM Lower OC
Dinner 5:30 - 7:00 PM Canada del Oro Restaurant
5 Friday 6/13/97 Rock identification hike (field site)
Gregory, Olsen
8:00 - 11:30 AM Meet at Apartments
Basic Soils - Olsen, Gregory
Olsen, Gregory
11:30 AM - 12:15 PM On way back from field
Lunch 12:30 - 1:30 PM Canada del Oro Restaurant
Earth System History
Olsen
Readings - Unraveling Geological Time

Notes for Earth Systems History Lecture

1:30 - 2:45 PM Lower OC
Computer skills - Presentations using PowerPoint
Olsen, Barber
2:45 - 4:00 PM Lower OC
Northern Arizona LectureOlsen 4:00 - 5:00 PM Lower OC
Dinner 5:30 - 7:00 PM Canada del Oro Restaurant
Trips into town available
Saturday and Sunday 6/14/97 - 6/15/97 Free Time Trips into town available

Week 2, 6/16-6/20: Northern Arizona tour and Grand Canyon
Olsen, Barber, Gregory

6 Monday 6/16/97 Field Trip to Northern Arizona
Salt River Canyon
Stratigraphy, Tectonics, and River Ecology
Meteor CraterOlsen, Gregory, Barber
Handouts Handouts for field stops (updated 6/21/97)
leave 8 AM Meet at Apartments
Camp and Dinner evening Homolovi State Park
7 Tuesday 6/17/97 Petrified Forest National Park
Stratigraphy and Triassic Vertebrates
Fossil trees and Paleoclimate
and living vertebrates and invertebrates
Olsen. Gregory, Barber
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Camp and Dinner evening Homolovi State Park
8 Wednesday 8/18/97 Sunset Crater
Moenave Dino. Tracks
Coal Mine MesaOlsen, Gregory, Barber
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Camp and Dinner evening Grand Canyon National Park
9 Thursday 6/19/97 Geology and Ecology of the Grand Canyon
Walk down South Kaibab Trial
Olsen, Gregory, Barber
7:00 AM - 6:00 PM Grand Canyon National Park
Camp and Dinner evening Grand Canyon National Park
10 Friday 6/20/97 Drive Back
Pump House Creek, Dry Beaver Creek - Vertebrates, Invertebrates, Plants
Barber, Gregory
7:00 AM - 6:00 PM begin at Grand Canyon Campground
Dinner 7:00 - 8:30 PM Canada del Oro Restaurant
Trips into town available
Saturday and Sunday 6/21/97 - 6/22/97 Free Time Trips into town available

Week 3, 6/23-6/27: Site Description and Evaluation
Olsen, Barber, Gregory

11 Monday 6/23/97 Lecture on Brunton Compass Exercise
Gregory, Olsen, Barber
8:00 - 8:45 AM Lower OC
Brunton Compass Exercise
Olsen, Gregory, Barber
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM Bio2 Lawn
Lunch 12:30 - 1:30 PM Canada del Oro Restaurant
Using the ETS
Olsen, Gregory, Barber
1:30 - 2:30 PM Lower OC
Mapping Exercise with the ETS
Olsen, Gregory, Barber
2:30 - 4:00 PM Bio 2 Ponds
Downloading data from the ETS
Olsen, Gregory, Barber
4:00 - 5:00 PM Lower OC
Dinner 5:30 - 7:00 PM Canada del Oro Restaurant
12 Tuesday 6/24/97 Topographic Mapping at Field Site
Olsen, Gregory, Barber
6:00 - 11:30 AM Meet at Apartments
Lunch 12:30 - 1:30 PM Canada del Oro Restaurant
Lab work on site evaluation
Down loading data, using Canvas and Surface
Olsen, Gregory, Barber
1:30 - 5:00 PM Lower OC
Dinner 5:30 - 7:00 PM Canada del Oro Restaurant
13 Wednesday 6/25/97 Topographic and Geologic Mapping at Field Site
Olsen, Gregory, Barber
6:00 - 11:30 AM Meet at Apartments
Lunch 12:30 - 1:30 PM Canada del Oro Restaurant
Lab work on site evaluation
Down loading data, using Canvas and Surface
Olsen, Gregory, Barber
1:30 - 4:00 PM Lower OC
Fossil collection ID
Olsen, Gregory
4:00 - 5:00 PM Lower OC
Dinner 5:30 - 7:00 PM Canada del Oro Restaurant
14 Thursday 6/26/97 Geological Mapping at Field Site
Olsen, Gregory, Barber
6:00 - 11:30 AM Meet at Apartments
Lunch 12:30 - 1:30 PM Canada del Oro Restaurant
Lecture on Environmental Consulting Site Evaluation
Peter LeTourneau (via video conference)
1:30 - 2:30 PM Bio2 Conference Room - Education
Lab work on site evaluation
Down loading data, using Canvas and Surface
Olsen, Gregory, Barber
2:30 - 5:00 PM Lower OC
Dinner 5:30 - 7:00 PM Canada del Oro Restaurant
Trips into town available
14 Thursday 6/26/97 Ecoloical Mapping at Field Site
Olsen, Gregory, Barber
6:00 - 11:30 AM Meet at Apartments
Lunch 12:30 - 1:30 PM Canada del Oro Restaurant
Lab work on site evaluation
Down loading data, using Canvas and Surface
Olsen, Gregory, Barber
1:30 - 4:00 PM Lower OC
Over all context within a GIS
Korff
4:00 - 5:00 PM Lower OC
Dinner 5:30 - 7:00 PM Canada del Oro Restaurant
Trips into town available
Saturday and Sunday 6/28/97 - 6/29/97 Free Time Trips into town available

Week 4, 6/30-7/4: Biodiversity (modification likely)
Gregory, Barber

16 Monday 6/30/97 Student Presentations on site Geology
Videotaped
Gregory, Barber
8:00 - 12:00 AM Meet at Apartments
Lunch 12:30 - 1:30 PM Canada del Oro Restaurant
Caves as Time Capsules
Frank Von Hipple, Gregory, Barber
12:30 - 5:30 PM Meet at Apartments
Dinner 5:30 - 7:00 PM Canada del Oro Restaurant
17 Tuesday 7/1/97 Collect data for Catalina Gradient at Field Site
(Plants, Soils, Chemistry, and Ecology)
Gregory, Barber, Colodner
7:00 - 11:30 AM Meet at Apartments
Lunch 12:30 - 1:30 PM Canada del Oro Restaurant
Lecture on soil chemistry
Colodner
1:30 - 2:15 PM Lower OC
Lab work on Catalina Gradient
Gregory, Barber
2:15 - 3:00 PM Lower OC
Lecture on Statistical Methods
Barber
3:00 - 5:00 PM Lower OC
Dinner 5:30 - 7:00 PM Canada del Oro Restaurant
18 Wednesday 7/2/97 Sabino Canyon
Gregory, Barber
6:00 AM - 12:00 Noon Meet at Apartments
Lunch 12:00 Noon - 1:00 PM "On the Road"
Desert Lab - Paul Martin Lecture 1:00- 3:30 PM The Desert Lab
Dinner 5:30 - 7:00 PM Canada del Oro Restaurant
19 Thursday 7/3/97 Aravaipa
Von Hipple, Barber, Gregory
9:30 AM - 5:00 PM Meet at Apartments
Dinner 5:30 - 7:00 PM Canada del Oro Restaurant
20 Friday 7/4/97 Catalina Gradient
Von Hipple, Barber, Gregory
6:00 AM - 5:00 PM Meet at Apartments
Dinner 5:30 - 7:00 PM Canada del Oro Restaurant
Trips into town available
Saturday and Sunday 7/5/97 - 7/6/97 Free Time Trips into town available

Week 5, 7/7-7/11: CO2 - Biosphere 2
Olsen, Barber, Gregory

21 Monday 6/10/97 Student presentations on site evaluation and Catalina Gradient
Video taped
Olsen, Gregory, Barber
8:00 AM - 12:00 Noon Lower OC
Lunch 12:30 - 1:30 PM Canada del Oro Restaurant
Mission of Bio2
William Harris - Director of Bio2
1:30- 2:30 PM Lower OC
Global CO2 crisis
Olsen
CO2 notes
2:45 - 4:15 PM Lower OC
Dinner 5:30 - 7:00 PM Canada del Oro Restaurant
22 Tuesday 7/8/97 History of Bio2
Tony Burgess
8:30 - 10:00 AM Lower OC
Safety Course for Bio2
Jo Greenmyer
10:00 - 12:00 PM Biosphere 2, Savanna Air Lock
Lunch 12:30 - 1:30 PM Canada del Oro Restaurant
Water and Soil Biota sampling on Campus and in Bio2
Colodner, Hipple, Olsen, Barber, Gregory
1:30 - 5:00 PM Meet at Lower OC
Dinner 5:30 - 7:00 PM Canada del Oro Restaurant
23 Wednesday 7/9/97 Soil and Water Chemistry Samples on Campus and in Bio2
von Hipple, Colodner, Gregory
Water Fauna
Olsen, Barber, Mat Yospin et al.
9:00 AM - 12:00 Noon Holmes Lab
Lunch 12:30 - 1:30 PM Canada del Oro Restaurant
Selection of Projects
Olsen, Gregory, Barber
1:30 - 2:15 PM Lower OC
Berlese funnel and microscope examination of soil and water biota and soil chemistry characterization
Olsen, Barber
Bio2 Intern Ant, Homopteran, Research Group (A.H.R.G.)
Mat Yospin et al.
Leaf Area Measurements in anod out of Bio2
Gregory
2:15 - 5:00 PM Begin in Lower OC
24 Thursday 7/10/97 Intern Research at Bio2
Olsen, Barber, Gregory, Colodner, and Summer Interns
8:00 - 9:30 AM Meet at Lower OC
Desert Scrub Biome Project
Burgess
10:00 - 12:00 PM Lower OC
Lunch 12:30 - 1:30 PM Canada del Oro Restaurant
Stella tutorial, population modeling
Olsen, Barber, Gregory
Notes for lecture on models
1:30 - 4:00 PM Lower OC
Plant physiology lecture
Kevin Griffin
4:00 - 5:00 PM Lower OC
Dinner 5:30 - 7:00 PM Canada del Oro Restaurant
25 Friday 7/14/97 Physiological measurements in Bio2
Griffen, Gregory, Barber, Olsen
8:00 AM - 12:00 Noon Biosphere 2
Lunch 12:30 - 1:30 PM Canada del Oro Restaurant
Introduction of Sea of Cortez Trip
Burgess
1:30 - 2:30 PM Lower OC
Stella modeling of Bio2
Colodner, Gregory, Olsen, Barber
2:30 - 4:00 PM Lower OC
Dinner 5:30 - 7:00 PM Canada del Oro Restaurant
Saturday and Sunday 7/5/97 - 7/6/97 Free Time Trips into town available

Week 6, 7/14-7/18: Sea of Cortez at Centro Intercultural de Estudio de Desiertos y Oceanos, A. C. (C.E.D.O.)
Burgess, Barber, Olsen

26 Monday 7/14/97 Student presentations on Biosphere 2
Olsen, Barber, Colodner
7:00 - 9:30 AM Lower OC
Leave for Mexico 11:15 AM Meet at Apartments
Lunch 12:30 AM - 1:30 PM Saguaro National Monument
Supper 8:00 - 10:00 PM C.E.D.O. Field Station
Overview of the Gulf of California Region
Carlos Navarro
10:00 - 11:00 PM C.E.D.O. Field Station
27 Tuesday 7/15/97 Estuary Ecology
Peggy Turk Boyer, Carlos Navarro, Olsen, Burgess, Barber
6:30 - 11:00 AM Begin at C.E.D.O. Field Station
Lunch 12:00 Noon - 1:00 PM C.E.D.O. Field Station
Rocky Point (La Choya) Intertidal Transect
Peggy Turk Boyer, Olsen, Burgess, Barber
4:30 - 8:00 PM Begin at C.E.D.O. Field Station
Supper 9:00 - 11:00 PM C.E.D.O. Field Station
28 Wednesday 7/16/97 Tide Pool Communities
Peggy Turk Boyer, Olsen, Burgess, Barber
5:45 AM - 8:00 AM Begin at C.E.D.O. Field Station
Lunch 12:00 Noon - 1:00 PM C.E.D.O. Field Station
Fisheries of the Gulf of California
Hudson
3:00 - 4:00 PM C.E.D.O. Field Station
Rocky Point Transect Analysis
Peggy Turk Boyer, Olsen, Burgess, Barber
4:00 - 6:00 PM C.E.D.O. Field Station
Pinacate Dune Field
Burgess, Barber, Carlos Navarro, Peggy Turk Boyer, Olsen
6:00 - 9:00 PM Begin at C.E.D.O. Field Station
Dinner 9:45 PM - 11:30 PM Friendly Dolphin. Pto. Penasco
29 Thursday 7/17/97 Drive back 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM Begin at C.E.D.O. Field Station
Dinner 5:30 - 7:00 PM Canada del Oro Restaurant
30 Friday 7/18/97 Wrap Up - End of Earth Camp
Olsen, Barber Notes
9:00 - 10:30 AM Lower OC
Graduation and Awards!
Debra Colodner, Barbara O'Connell
10:30 AM - 12:00 Noon Lower OC


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