Tuesday. Sept. 23, 1958 University Daily Kansan
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Field trip by bus.
Prof. Leone checks samples.
Dredging bottom for mud samples.
Outdoors Attracts Zoology Students
Cyclops, nymphs, boats, water—sounds like a page from Homer's "Odyssey," but actually it is a zoology II field trip to the reservoir on the University tract a mile west of the campus.
The field trips are designed to give beginning students experience in collecting and studying live water fauna in the University's fisheries laboratory reservoir.
Charles A. Leone, associate professor of zoology, who set up the field trip with the aid of laboratory assistants, Robert Packard and Phil Ogilvie, said the students enjoy this type of laboratory session more than the indoor type.
The students dress in old clothes for the occasion because many times they arrive back on the campus with muddy feet, dirty hands and wet bottoms.
When a section arrives at the reservoir, it is divided into groups of three and four students. One group is assigned to the boat. Its task is to take bottom mud samples with a Peterson dredge and to take water temperatures at various depths. A prerequisite for the boat trip is the ability to swim.
After the mud samples are taken to shore, another detail runs the mud through sieves and collects the mollusks, worms, and other small water animals.
All the materials collected are returned to the laboratory in Snow Hall and studied for numbers and kinds. The students then write a report of their findings.
Another group is assigned to the shoreline. They make hauls with small plankton nets to obtain cyclops, nymphs and other small animals. They also observe vegetation and turbidity conditions of the water.
The students shown in the accompanying photographs are the honors section of the general zoology class. There are 150 students in the class. They are divided into seven sections.
Sieving mud samples for worms and mollusks.
Seining for small animals.
Students observe findings.
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