Welcome to Memphis, Tennessee and the Mid South area. You will spend the next 7 days engaged in a field course through Mississippi State University. It is designed to be a culminating activity for your Teachers in Geosciences program. Below is the agenda for the week's activities. The procedure for moving through this website is to either start by clicking on "Earth Complex" (Monday's first activity) and then following the links at the bottom of each page to the next activity or by using this site map, you can skip to any day that you like. You will find that most of the sites have two pages. The first page is a description of the place and the tour and the connecting page is the "science" of that particular site. Good luck.

Agenda

Daily Activities
                   Weather Readings/Climatology Comparisons
                               Thunderstorms

Monday
    Morning - Earth Complex
                         Earth Complex II
    Afternoon - Center for Earthquake Research and Information, University of Memphis
                           New Madrid Fault
                    - Groundwater Institute, University of Memphis
                           Memphis Aquifer

Tuesday
    Morning - Downtown Memphis
                       Walking Tour of Memphis
    Afternoon - Mud Island River Park and Museum
                    - drive to Reelfoot Lake, Tiptonville, TN (map)

Wednesday
    Morning - Reelfoot Lake
                        New Madrid Fault
    Afternoon - drive to New Madrid, MO (map)
                    - New Madrid Earthquake Museum
                          New Madrid  Fault
                    - Highway 55 Tour of Earthquake sites (drive back to Memphis--map)

Thursday
    Morning - Pink Palace Museum including IMAX Theater and Sharpe Planetarium
                        Summer Sky
                        Coral Reefs
    Afternoon - drive to Rainwater Observatory (map)
    Evening - Rainwater Observatory and Planetarium, French Camp, MS
                         Summer Sky
                         Pink Palace
                         Star Party

Friday
    Morning - Rainwater Observatory and Planetarium--continued
                         Summer Sky
                         Pink Palace
                         Star Party
    Afternoon - drive to Coon Creek (map)

Saturday
    Morning - Coon Creek
                          Coon Creek Fossils
    Afternoon - drive back to Memphis (map)

Sunday
    Morning - Wolf River
    Afternoon - Wolf River Nature Trail
                        prepare for departure

What to bring notebook and pencil money for all meals appropriate clothing for touring and being in the field  camera and film binoculars

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