Hands-on Learning in EGS Courses
11/21/2008
EGS offers courses where students learn by doing hands-on experiments in the field.
An Excellent Class In The EGS Curriculum
10/31/2008
The capstone Environmental Geochemical Science course, team-taught by geologist John Rayburn and chemist Megan Ferguson, took a field trip to Notch Lake to take a sediment core and perform various water chemistry measurements. In addition to the data recorded on the trip, students are now analyzing samples in the lab to determine carbon content, particle size, and sediment-bound lead.
One of EGS Program’s Strengths: Application of GIS to solve Environmental Problems
09/25/2008
David Jakim did fieldwork for the biodiversity assessment & habitat map that he produced with volunteers from New Paltz & Highland under the guidance of Hudsonia Ltd. (a non for profit biodiversity institute of the Hudson Valley). David Jakim is digitizing the habitat map in the SUNY New Paltz geography laboratory and Professor Laurence Mcglinn of Geography has been helping David Jakim with the GIS. Together they are writing a paper entitled Associations among GIS Datasets and Habitats, to be presented and submitted for publication at the Millersville Middle States Geographers Conference in November.
Photos: EGS major, David Jakim, stands beside Tributary 13 of the Wallkill River, nearby interstate thruway I-87 collecting field data.
