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While previous EWU camps involved a trip to Dillon, Montana, this year\u2019s\u00a0camp was held closer to home. Instead of mapping bedrock in Dillion, students mountain biked, hiked and climbed to reach remote and less-accessible locations around the region, Pritchard says. Staying local also had the benefit of allowing other EWU organizations to pitch in to help.\u00a0For a mapping project on Bonnie Lake, a lovely lowland body of water just south of the Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge, EWU\u2019s EPIC Adventures provided canoes to help. EPIC also\u00a0provided transportation to Tower Mountain on the Cascade Crest and Spokane County\u2019s historic Silver Hill Mine.<\/p>\n
Additional projects included students using drones and legwork to map 200 acres of land recently acquired by the City of Cheney for wastewater treatment lagoons. They afterwards presented a\u00a0submitted report for faculty feedback.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a professional-level report and they presented it really well,\u201d Pritchard says.<\/p>\n
Because EWU was among \u201conly a handful of colleges\u201d offering a camp, Pritchard\u00a0allowed for\u00a0eight seniors from Central Washington University and two\u00a0additional students\u00a0from universities in New York and Kentucky\u00a0to be included along with the EWU students.<\/p>\n
Other 2021 EWU Geology Field Camp highlights included:<\/p>\n
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- Mapping the Saltese Uplands Conservation Area and Beacon Hill Trail for an ongoing project in cooperation with Spokane County Parks and the Bureau of Land Management. The project is slated for completion in 2024.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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- Mapping the Fish Lake Trail, and using the findings to create brochures and 3D models to track groundwater flow and hypothetical contamination.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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- Collecting and analyzing soil samples for\u00a0EWU\u2019s Prairie Restoration Project<\/a>\u00a0(with the\u00a0Cheney Fire Department generously providing\u00a0water to help with\u00a0the\u00a0infiltration testing). The work established baselines that will be crucial to the success of future plantings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
EWU\u2019s Geology Field Camp, a capstone requirement that allows budding geologists to demonstrate what they\u2019ve learned in the real world, was reinvented this summer\u00a0in order\u00a0to keep students healthy and safe. Because the typical field camp requires interstate travel and shared lodging, universities across the nation cancelled their camps due to COVID concerns. Chad Pritchard,\u00a0chair of…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":462,"featured_media":12695,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-12694","stories","type-stories","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","stories_categories-geoscience","stories_tags-geoscience"],"acf":{"subheading":"","featured_image_format":"cover","display_featured_image":true,"display_byline":false,"display_date_published":true,"featured_video":"","Links":false,"Resources":false,"page_hide_sidebar":false,"page_enable_page_nav":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cstem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/12694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cstem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cstem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/stories"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cstem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/462"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cstem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/12694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12698,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cstem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/12694\/revisions\/12698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cstem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cstem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
- Collecting and analyzing soil samples for\u00a0EWU\u2019s Prairie Restoration Project<\/a>\u00a0(with the\u00a0Cheney Fire Department generously providing\u00a0water to help with\u00a0the\u00a0infiltration testing). The work established baselines that will be crucial to the success of future plantings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
- Mapping the Fish Lake Trail, and using the findings to create brochures and 3D models to track groundwater flow and hypothetical contamination.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n