GEO/OC 103
Field Trip to Oregon Coast
May 21, 2011
  

Field Trip Policies

1. The field trip is a required part of the class - EVERYONE must have a field trip experience in order to pass the class. This means that you must either attend on the scheduled day, May 21st, or go on your own time (see below).
2. We realize that students may have jobs or other university-sponsored events or major family events/emergencies or military service to attend to on Sat. May 21st, and we ask students in this category (i.e., students who will need to make up the field trip) to:
   • go on your own time, arranging your own transportation, and turn your field trip report in to your TA by June 3rd. All instructions are in the field trip guide. Please note the the HMSC Visitor Center is only open Thursday to Monday, 10-4 until Memorial Day weekend, then open 7 days a week.
   • Be sure to use the TIDE TABLES and go only to Seal Rock State Park at LOW tide! This is very, VERY important! If you do not go at low tide you will not be able to complete your field trip report!
3. It is university policy that everyone leaving from Corvallis on May 21st MUST ride the bus (for safety and university insurance purposes). You are NOT allowed to follow in your own car.
4. If a friend of yours (or your child age 3 or older) wants to go with the class on May 21st they are welcome to ride with you on the bus as well, at no charge.
5. If you will already be on the coast on that weekend please let your TA know and join the group at the first stop (see schedule below).
6. Please note again that there is a downloadable field trip guide (at http://dusk.geo.orst.edu/oceans/OC103FieldTrip.pdf). This provides background information and a list of questions to answer. EVERYONE must download and use this, regardless of whether you are going on the official date with the class, or on your own time.
7. EVERYONE in the entire class must turn in their completed field trip guide to your TA (NOT to the professors!) by 5:00 p.m., Friday, June 3rd. You may certainly turn it in earlier if you want to (e.g., the Monday following the trip).
8. Field trip guides will be graded by your TA and will constitute Lab #9. Make sure that you have answered ALL of the questions in the field trip guide!

BEFORE the TRIP: Please and READ and STUDY:

• this web page
• Oregon Coastal Atlas (Rocky Shores and Sandy Shores sections)
• FIELD TRIP GUIDE (1 Mb pdf file - you must have Adobe Acrobat Reader) - get free Acrobat Reader here
• Common Rocky Intertidal Species

AFTER the TRIP - WHAT TO TURN IN: The answers to bolded questions in the field trip guide.
WHEN? Turn in your assignment by the end of Dead Week, which is 5:00 p.m., June 3rd. Please turn your answers in to your TA. Please TYPE YOUR REPORT! Makeup field trip reports must also be turned in to your TA by 5:00 p.m., June 3rd (i.e., students who must go on their own time, taking the field trip guide with them and following instructions, and turning in their report to their TA).

TIME/PLACE on May 21st: 7:30 a.m.

BRING:

• Your own lunch and something non-alcoholic to drink
• Jacket in case of rain or wind.
• Extra pair of socks or small towel (you WILL get wet at the tide pools!)
• Rubber boots, if you have them (for the tide pools).
• Pencil or pen to write with.
• Field trip guide.
• Pillow or stuffed animal to snooze with as our transit to and from the coast will be long. We will have to take an alternate route due to heavy construction on Hwy. 20.

SCHEDULE ON COAST:

10:00-11:30 a.m. - TIDE POOLS and GEOLOGY, Seal Rock State Park

Please be careful around the tide pools, as they are very slippery. And don't go out too far - you may have to swim back!

11:30-12:00 noon - Lunch at Seal Rock

12:00-12:30 p.m. - Travel to Hatfield Marine Science Center

12:30 - 2:00 p.m.- Hatfield Marine Science Center (HMSC) (541-867-0226)

• Presentations and Video, Visitor Center Auditorium
• Visitor Center and Aquarium Self-Guided Tour

(west on Hwy 20 to Newport, south on Hwy 101 and across the bridge to the Hatfield Marine Science Center)

2:00 p.m. - Return to Corvallis

~4:30 p.m. - Arrive back at OSU campus

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Last update: May 3, 2011
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