| The Lincoln Chapter of the Association for Women Geoscientists and
the Homestead Girl Scout Council will conduct a summer geology field
camp for 36 nationally-recruited girls aged 14-17 in July of 2000
entitled "Nebraska Rocks!!" The camp will begin with a 2-day
"geology blitz" course in UNL Department of Geosciences
classrooms and laboratories. The girls will then take a 2-week excursion
around Nebraska, stopping at the Niobrara State Park, Ashfall Fossil
Beds State Historical Park area, the Gudmundsen Biological Field Station
in the Sandhills, and the Chadron-Toadstool Park area.
The students will examine contemporary geological problems through
the scientific method of observation, asking questions, formulating
hypotheses, and testing hypothesis with experimentation. In the
Niobrara State Park area, the girls will explore evolution and extinction
as they observe the effects of an ancient meteor impact. At Ashfall
Fossil Beds State Historical Park, they will see the results of
a massive outpouring of volcanic ash. In the Sandhills, they will
explore the difference between deposits formed by wind and those
formed by rivers, the effects of recent climate changes on these
deposits, and the origins of sand in Nebraska. In Toadstool Park
they will learn about fossil preservation and the controversy of
‘who owns our fossils’ while participating in fossil
collecting under the direction of Dr. Mike Voorhies and other geoscientists
from the Geology Department and State Museum.
Keep posted on "Nebraska Rocks!!" events by visiting
the program’s web site: www.awg.org/chapters/nebraskarocks.html. |
