Yellowstone 2022
Before Spring Break this year, eight intrepid adventurers (plus two equally intrepid chaperones) headed to Yellowstone to participate as citizen scientists in one of the longest-running predator-prey studies in the world. They worked with some of the top scientists in the field and had an opportunity to snowshoe transects in some of the wildest and most remote places in the park. They returned Sunday, February 27 with a whole new perspective on national parks and research.
Chaperone Shaun Hurley asked the group to share their favorite parts of the trip. Here were their responses:
- Traveling all the way to Yellowstone to form this bond with the other girls, even after knowing everyone from school for so many years
- Spotting three wolves and everyone hopping out of the car and watching them in complete silence
- Eating lunch outside in the snow in negative 18-degree weather
- Learning about how the different animals are tagged and tracked
- The nightly games in the lodge
- Escaping a bison stampede
- The snowball fights and snow angels
- Seeing snow for the first time
Students: Millicent Critchfield '24, Caroline Zoltak '24, Catherine Caldwell '22, Kiran Arain '22, Lauren Chesley '23, Laurel Logemann '23, Meredith Burgoon '22, and Karis Crookshank '22
Chaperones: Shaun Hurley and Samantha Kull
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