This trip report is from Jared Pels, one of the students in Dr. Ashley's Cave Biology class. Although the trip was in early June 2008, I have just received the trip report. Purpose: The purpose of our trip was to observe and measure troglobitic cavefish.
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Biology: 2007 bat census
Trip Report – Carroll Cave Biology Project
Trip date: 13 October 2007
Participants: Bill Gee (trip leader)
Andy Isbell
Jim Cooley
Craig Hines
Time in cave: 10:00am
Time out: 9:30pm
Area visited: Carroll passage to the Mountain Room
Purpose: Annual bat census
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Craig Hines rode with me to the schoolhouse where we met Jim Cooley. Andy Isbell came down Saturday morning. We were all up at the silo by shortly after nine getting dressed and rigging the drop.
Biology: 2008 bat census
Biology: Annual bat census
CarrollPassage
Jeff Grigg Jeff Page Max White
10:15am
8:45pm
Biology Project Trip Report
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Jeff Page and I arrived at the schoolhouse Friday evening to camp. Jeff Grigg and Max White drove in early Saturday morning. We all collected at the silo around 9:45 and were going down the shaft by 10:15.
Biology trip report 24 May 2008
Carroll Cave Trip Report – 24 May 2008
Project – Biology
Time in: 10:30am
Time out: 4:00pm
Participants:
Bill Gee – Leader
Jeff Page
Matt Niemiller
Andy Isbell
Shawn Williams
Jim Cooley
Pic Walenta
In late summer 2007 Matt Niemiller contacted the Carroll Cave Conservancy asking for permission to enter the cave. Matt is a PhD student in biology at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville currently working on a project to measure the genetic diversity of various populations of the Southern Cave Fish. His method is to take a small snip of fin from several individuals, then run a DNA analysis on it to compare with the other samples.
Biology trip, March 29, 2008
Trip Report – Carroll Cave Biology Project
Trip date – 29 March 2008
Areas visited – Upper Thunder River, UL2 side passage.
Participants:
Bill Gee – Trip leader
Andy Isbell
Eric Hertzler
Max White
Ashley Smith
Justace Clutter
Jim Cooley
Jim, Justace and I camped Friday night at the schoolhouse. The temperature got down to about 40 degrees and there was a bit of wind. It was obvious that the area has received a lot of rain recently. Bill Pfantz stopped by for a few minutes and said he thought the rain was 4 to 6 inches in the last week.