Honors Biology
Spring 1996 Field Trip
Florida / Everglades National Park
During 15-24 March 1996, nine Ohio State-Lima students in the Honors sequence
of Introductory Biology (Biology H115-H116) participated in a field trip
to Florida. The students, Peg Goodwin, Christi Hirschfeld, John Mershman,
Tami Parker, Tim Pohlman, Charles Rayburn, Crystal Rust, Vicki Sanford and
Joy Uppenkamp, along with faculty members Mike Cunningham, Dave Dennis and
Eric Juterbock (Chief Guide and Expedition Naturalist), traveled a bit over
3300 miles in two vehicles during the course of 10 days. This optional trip
offered real time experience which connected the first term's study of biological
diversity to the second term's study of ecology and environmental problems;
Florida is really a laboratory of all of these things. The trip was made
affordable to students because of the donation of a 14-passenger bus by
Mid Bus, Inc. of Bluffton, Ohio to the Ohio State-Lima Honors Program. During
the course of the trip we were able to see the following vertebrates: 7
species of amphibians, 15 of reptiles, 103 of birds, and 7 of mammals. We
also identified a variety of insects and other invertebrates, and nearly
100 species of vascular plants. The following journal was written by the
participants, and was edited and completed by Eric; the pages were built
by Mike and Eric; photography by Mike, Dave and Eric.
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