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Category Archives: Life In Transition: Cave Ecology 2009

Cave Ecology: End Thoughts by Swati, Metro Student

Today is the last day of caving in Kentucky and I don’t know what to say. Should I miss this or be excited to get home? To be honest, I have very mixed feelings. This trip was definitely not what I had expected which is superior. From the first day of setting up in the [...]

Cave Ecology: The Journey Comes to an End

Cassie, Jody, Trishauna, Pilar   We got up and ready today to go caving in Coon-in-the-Crack 1&2. When everyone was ready, we drove down to the closest parking and then hiked the rest of the way to the caves. At the caves, we separated into two groups. Groups three, four, and five went into Coon-in-the-Crack [...]

Cave Ecology: A Cave Has Three Zones

Andrea, David, Swati, Anne   Fourth day in Kentucky and time flies by fast! Tar Kiln cave was our second wild cave we visited and it was quite an adventure. This cave was located on a farm and two of the dogs there joined us on this journey. We hiked up and down the hills [...]

Cave Ecology: Exploring the Wild in Horn Hollow Cave

Jessica, Martina, Brandon   Today started off like any other. We woke up, ate breakfast, and got our gear ready for the day. We then talked about the schedule for the day and found out that we would have a reporter with us at the cave. We hopped in the vans and hiked to Horn [...]

Cave Ecology: Seeing Caves in the Dark

Aynnje, Juan, Sabra We started off the day with breakfast at 8:30 a.m. We hung around the campsite until around 10:00 a.m. when we were told that we would be canoeing! On the way there we saw a tree that was shaped like a Llama! We called it the Llama tree. Once at Greenbo Lake, the lake [...]

Cave Ecology: The Journey of Exploring Caves

Cassie, Jodi, Allan, Pilar, Trishauna Today was the first day of the Web of Life field study. We met at Metro at about 8:30 this morning and packed up all of the gear in the vans for the trip. On this trip we have three different schools: Linden McKinley, Metro, and Cleveland’s MC2 STEM. We [...]

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