GEOGRAPHY 393 WE OBJECTIVES

For Geography 393 you are to devise a detailed workplan (see Itinerary and Costs for base), and place sufficient reference diagrams and documentation forms into your field book, enabling you to record the appropriate type, quantity, and location data for formations and boundaries at all sites. Please develop proficiency with instrumentation and relevant samples (in Science D328) BEFORE you venture into the field.

ALL data (GPS measurements, photographs, literature, etc.) are joint property of all trip participants, and you will share it without reservation with all other 393 students and faculty on this excursion. Upon our return, there will be a secure server holding such information for all participants at \\GeoDept1\Classes\ Use these materials to develop your technical report and poster for presentation.

WE ASSIGNMENTS: This is a writing emphasis (WE) course, but with rather different assignments than in conventional classroom courses. My principal objectives for iterative field writing are:

• PLANNING: logistics, itinerary, budget, and contingencies workplan. Audience: project reviewer; draft: F09MAY08; final: F16MAY08

• IMPLEMENTATION: documentation log sufficient that another person, without contact with the author, could accurately reconstruct/replicate all field activities at any time in the future. Additionally, real-time evaluation (and adjustment as necessary) of accomplished tasks, with written declaration of immediate intentions, is necessary in progress reports. Audience: field supervisor; progress reports: W21MAY, S24MAY, T27MAY, Su01JUN; log: M02JUN (return W04JUN)

• ANALYSIS: compilation, reflection, interpretation, evaluation, and communication of excursion findings in either a technical report and a collaborative poster exhibit. Audience: professional public; draft: F06JUN; final: F13JUN

The Park Service needs volunteers to assist them in a variety of necessary projects that funding cuts prevent the Big Bend staff from accomplishing. Your field notes and reports will go to the Park officials in February to provide such service assistance.

Go there, know there; contribute.

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