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By:Alex Cardullo

Thursday April 26, 2018, I visited NC State's Jordan hall to attend the geopaths event. Once arriving they split us up into 2 groups and sent us to do several activities. The first task was one relating to muscles and endangered animals; they showed us an extremely endangered snail here in NC and also had us group and identify muscles. After that they had us look at a blood worm and draw it. They explained how if you worked in the field you would need to be able to both identify endangered animals so you would be more careful out in the real world. They also explained how on a daily basis people back in the day would look through a telescope and have to draw whatever they found and identify it; they would jot tons of note on their drawings as well. The next station the sent us to was one relation to augmented reality and dams. They had a square of sand which had light projected on it and several programs relating to its height or things put onto it. We were told to construct dams which held the most water and later design a park and see where water would collect. Lastly we used google earth to observe the Oso landslide, find how much land was lost, and if landslides happened in the area often. We concluded they happened around once every 150-500 years based of the formation of the land.

This relates to what we do in APES as we should be able to identify and protect endangered animals right in our backyard (NC). It also relates in the fact that knowing the history of your geological geography is important in whether its ethical to let people live in dangerous areas without warning them.