Students in this course can participate in a 1-credit, four-day field trip to Carter Caves State Park in Kentucky to explore caves, springs, and sinkholes. Students design their own research projects in wild caves that might include counting organisms in a specific area of the cave, surveying microhabitats, comparing fauna and abiotic conditions between two or more caves, or examining graffiti and "trash" collected for subsequent analysis. Click here to view the Carter Caves Field Study Photo Album.