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Photo provided by Sarah Hoover Geology students rock o CLACKAMAS o PRINT © Editorial Editor-In-Chief Victoria burling chiefed@clackamas.edu Managing Editor .Ian Van Orden maned@clackamas.edu Arts & Culture Editor William Farris - > BY COLE SOWDERS STAFF WRITER Perhaps y o u ’ve never h eard o f D eath Valley, or you only know that it’ s a desert in California. Death Valley is the largest national park in the lower 48 states, and the hottest, driest and lowest o f all the national parks in the U n ited S tates. H om e to m any species o f plarits and anim als that have adapted to the harsh living environments, the Scien ce D ep artm ent o f B iology & Geology at Clackamas Community College has been taking trips to Death Valley for about 30 years now. C C C p ro fesso rs Sarah H oover and Jennifer Bown both take students there during spring break, Where they spend the week learning about desert ecosystem s. Sp ecifically th eir stud ies cap ture the b io lo gy , geology, h u m an h isto ry and botany o f the desert. Students study how these systems relate and interact with one another for a week while cam ping in the national park and spending their days in the valley itself. It m aybe an intensive course for some, but, “ Students walk away saying that it’ s the best class they’ve had in their whole life .” Hoover said Hoover has been with the program for about 18 years now and is the geology instructor ait C C C , though she originally Studied th e a te r. W h en she w en t to com m unity college, she ended up taking a geology class ju st for fu n , but soon realized that, <cIt was lik e someone had turned on a light and [I] thought, this is the coolest dam n thing I’ve ever heard,” Hoover said. M any students attend each year, such as Ivy Hodgkinson. Hodgkinson had never thought geology would be her first choice, o rigin ally m ajorin g in en viro nm ental science and geography, Hodgkinson said, “ I always wanted to pursue a career that I could create a positive influence on the earth. So w ith that in mind,.-'I started to look for other fields. I just happened to find geology and one day fe llin love with It.” Sh e, like H oover, has found geology to be her h idd en lo ve. “ Now it fee ls like the field that I was always trying to find but I never thought I would enjoy.” Hodgkinson said By attending the Death Valley trip, not only do students have th e astounding e xp erien ce o f c re a tin g fr ie n d s h ip s th ro u gh ca m p in g w ith one an o th er and tak in g part in group experim ents throughout the trip, but they also receive four credits for participating in the class. V icto ria T in ker, a form er editor for The Clackam as P rin t, attended the trip some years back. She, like m any others attendees, referred, to it as a “ one o f a kind experience;” O rig in a lly ta k in g the c la ss, T in k e r developed a love for the course (BI-165-C,) and decided to take the Death Valley trip because it was a good opportunity for her to earn science credit w h ile exploring an area she w ouldn’ t have traveled to otherwise. H aving instructors as guides proved to be an extrem ely helpful tool as Tinker was able to see som ething new each day while on the trip. W ith the journal she, used to collect inform ation about native species, She says she would v isit again with fam ily some day. Death Valley is one of the United States’ aced@clackamas.edu News Editor Emily Roberts newsed@clackamas.edu Copy Editor Jason Sisson copyed@clackamas.edu Humor Editor Eric Calson hurdored@clackamas.edu | Ad Manager Preston Drews admgr@clackamas.edu Sports Editor Jacob Thompson sportsed@clackamas.edu Photo Editor Jonathan Villagomez photoed@clackamas.edu Multimedia Editor Summer Barraza webeditor@clackamas.edu Design Editor Professor Sarah Hoover helps run and teach during the Death Valley trip. greatest anom alies. Many students that took the trip think that Death Valley is an enlightening experience, hot only for biologists or geblogists, but for people of all walks of life. The course is conducted over spring break from March 21 to March 30, 2019 at a cost of $385. There will be three to four required m eetings during w inter term and interested students can contact Jennifer Bown and Sarah Hoover for more inform ation. ON THE COVER: Eight Clackamas students traveled to Costa Rica in December to study and learn abroad. Design by Jared Preble. Photos by Jonathan Villagomez. Jared Preble Desighed@clackamas.edu Staff i o - • ■ C (n L (D E (D u (D U CD Daniel Bremer Rachelle Peiffer Allie Perkins Lexis Shull ColeSowders Mike Strickland Adviser Melissa Jones MelissaJ@clackamas.edu The Clackamas Print aims to report the news in an honest, unbiased and pro fessional manner. Content published in The Print is not screened or subject to censorship, j The ClackamaiPrint is free, but please take only one copy. Any person remov ing our papers in bulk will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. January, 23 2019
