Jaylynn Buchmelter Participated in a Spring 2015 Geology Field Trip to the Northeast

2015 Sep 15

Jaylynn Buchmelter of Wintersville, OH was one of the eight Ashland University students who participated in a Spring 2015 Geology Field Trip traveling around the Northeast.

Buchmelter is majoring in music education. Buchmelter is a 2013 graduate of Catholic Central High School.

During May 11-22, the geology program at Ashland University took its biannual field trip to eastern Connecticut, Rhode Island, eastern Massachusetts and northern New York. Dr. Michael Hudson, associate professor of geology and advisor of the Geology Club, accompanied the AU students on this excursion.

This trip provided students with exposure to a wide variety of minerals, rocks of all types and geological structures. Four days were spent examining metaphoric rocks of eastern Connecticut where minerals were collected such as garnet and sillimanite. Another day was spent on Cape Cod to give students exposure to the unique geologic feature. An additional two days were spent in the Adirondack Mountains looking at glacial geomorphology and erosion of the Potsdam sandstone by the Ausable River.

The highlight of the trip, however, was collecting wollastonite and garnet at an active mine near Elizabethtown and some of the 1980 Olympic memorabilia in Lake Placid.

For more information about the geology program at Ashland University, visit https://www.ashland.edu/cas/department-chemistry-geology-physics/programs/geology-geoscience-technology-and-management or contact Dr. Hudson at mhudson@ashland.edu or 419.289.5270.

Ashland University, ranked in the top 200 colleges and universities in U.S. News and World Report's National Universities category for 2016, is a mid-sized, private university conveniently located a short distance from Akron, Cleveland and Columbus, Ohio. Ashland University (www.ashland.edu) values the individual student and offers a unique educational experience that combines the challenge of strong, applied academic programs with a faculty and staff who build nurturing relationships with their students.