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| Geography Club | ||||||
| Geography Club is an active student group that plans hikes, camping trips, and other fieldtrips; they organize events for Geography Awareness Week each Fall and for Geography Spring Poster Session. | ||||||
| Rend Lake Cleanup, October 2008 | ||||||
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More Kudos for the Geography Club!! |
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At the Celebration of Leadership and Involvement on Wednesday, April 23, 2008, the Geography Club was presented the Delyte Morris Award for Excellence in Community Service and Janel Spaulding received the Outstanding RSO Officer Award. Congratulations to Janel and the Club for an outstanding year! |
 Pictured: Leslie Duram, Professor & Department Chair; Janel Spaulding, Club President; Mitch Horrie, Geography Club; Julie Weinert, Geography Club Faculty Advisor. |
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Spring 2008 photos~~ |
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| Earth Day, April 22, 2008 | ||||||
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| Little Grand Canyon Trail Cleanup | ||||||
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| Appalachian Mountain Top Removal Lecture & Letter Writing Campaign | ||||||
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| Camping Trip | ||||||
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Geography Awareness Week 2006 |
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Congratulations Geography Club !! |
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The Geography Club was given an award for its significant contribution in maintaining the Little Grand Canyon Trail in the Shawnee National Forest. |
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Club Hike - February 25, 2007 |
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The Geography Club surveyed the Little Grand Canyon trail as part of their Adopt-A-Trail work for the Shawnee National Forest. |
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| Geography Awareness Week 2006 Photos | ||||||
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| October 2006 Bake Sale | ||||||
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| The Geography Club held its second bake sale this semester and successfully raised funds for their Illinois Geography Clubs Weekend in October. Activities will include a guided hike with naturalist Jim Jung and "Glaciers with Wally." Stay tuned for the photos of what promises to be a great weekend. | ||||||
| Geography T-shirts | ||||||
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| These great t-shirts are a fun way to show your Geography spirit. They come in men's and women's sizes. Please contact Geography & Environmental Resources for order information and availability. | ||||||
| Geography Awareness Week 2005 Photos | ||||||
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| Geography Club Trips 2004-2005 | ||||||
 Our first excursion as the proud Geography Club was crisp October day at “ Snake Road,” which is the local name for the road that goes into the La Rue Pine Hills Ecological Reserve, home to many of our reptilian and amphibian friends. With the help of local guru, guide, and fountain of wisdom Jim Jung, our plucky group found baby cottonmouths, a really cute green snake, and a ribbon snake. Poonthip was a champ and bravely held one! Jim Jung is the author of our region’s esteemed guide, the Waterman and Hill Travelers Companion Nature Almanac, and he generously lent us his expertise and time to take the Geography Club out on all of our expeditions.
Later in October, the fearless Geography Club went to an actual ghost town in the Shawnee National Forest known as Kaolin. It was a bustling clay (kaolin) mining town around World War I. Although it had been abandoned for the last 100 years, we could still see remnants of buildings and roads, as well as the clay that made it famous. The trip was well attended and enjoyed by all.
In December, Jim Jung and his wife Ruby led the Geography Club to a site near Little Grand Canyon and admired tremendous views, genuine rock paintings, an ancient solar observatory, ancient carvings, and numerous petroglyphs. In February, we went on a trip to see some more petroglyph sites with Jim Jung, as well as a water recreation site from the turn of the century. Then we went by the Mississippi River and saw the remains of a haunted house and ancient fossils. Over Spring Break, during the Spring Solstice, about a dozen club members and friends left Carbondale at the crack of dawn to watch the sunrise on the Cahokia Mounds, which was cold but fun. In May, the Geography department as well as the club hosted a poster session where our students could show off the posters they worked so hard on throughout the school year. We also completed a brand-new Geography department tee shirt, which students and faculty alike proudly purchased. Finally, during Memorial Day weekend, we camped at Dixon Springs, explored Lusk Creek, and did some climbing at Jackson Falls. The trip was capped off with a trip to the chocolate factory, which happened to be across the street from Dixon Springs. It was a sweet end for a sweet school year, Geography Club style! |
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During Geography Awareness Week, in late November, we celebrated with a film night and a Geography Trivia Contest. At our table in the Faner Breezeway, a steady stream of people came to try their hand at Geography trivia, and walked away with prizes for their efforts. Some of the trivia tests were humbling (to Geography majors and non-majors alike) but fun. At the end of the day we gave an on-camera interview about the club and the department for our local television station. For the movie night we showed Cane Toads: An Unnatural History; a hilariously offbeat documentary that drew in over thirty viewers from outside the department. Thanks to faculty advisor Leslie Duram, we were able to advertise on the marquee near the SIU arena.