Brown county Earthcache placement frustration

[gotta run]

I wonder if UW-Green Bay would be open to an Earthcache. Many know that the university had all the caches on the arboretum trail pulled because of the “uniqueness” of the Niagara Escarpment. Perhaps the escarpment would be worthy of an Earthcache?

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[Lostby7]

@gotta run wrote:

I wonder if UW-Green Bay would be open to an Earthcache. Many know that the university had all the caches on the arboretum trail pulled because of the “uniqueness” of the Niagara Escarpment. Perhaps the escarpment would be worthy of an Earthcache?

I have made reference to it in three of my Earthcaches…
GC16916 Lannon Stone: Dolomite Unearthed
GC150BF The Niagara Escarpment: Brady’s Rock
…and in my new Waterfall Earthcache which has yet to list.

It is certainly worthy of an Earthcache or three…or five.
I’d talk to them about it and perhaps seek the help of one of their geology profs as they can help you find an awesome feature to exploit…I mean show off.

[gotta run]

Hmmm…never placed an earthcache before, only have a rudimentary idea from the info and guidelines on the earthcache.org page. I don’t know thing one about geology so it would be a ground-up learning opportunity, which perhaps is the point of it all…

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[Lostby7]

The more you learn along the way the better. I have learned a great deal from placing my 7 +1 Earthcaches. You may be surprised how approachable a collage prof might be in giving you a direction (or just finding some cool place while caching) and from there a visit to the site and some Google research will carry you along way. I must have spent two dozen hours getting my Meteor Impact Earthcache just right. Some of the others were MUCH less research intense (and it shows as they are more cursory in nature).

I hope you give it some thought. Cheers.

[gotta run]

We definitely will. It would be nice to have an earthcache in GB and nice to have a new cache come out that’s not a puzzle. Oh wait, that’s us placing the puzzles… 😈

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[Lostby7]

The cache should be going live today. I still need to adopt the cache from Geoaware which I will do later this afternoon. I want to get one change made (and approved through Geoaware first).
I hope y’all enjoy the site. Thanks for the words of support and offers of assistance.
-LB7

[-cheeto-]

I have only visited 1 earth cache so far but I have read up on many of them and followed threads on them.

Question on Earthcaches…

On the guidlines from Earthcace.org says – “EarthCache sites must provide Earth science lessons”

Do Earthcaches “HAVE” to be about Geology? or can they be about other aspects of Mother Earth and science? Things that come to mind: Areas of Biology – Botany, Zoology, Bacteriology. Chemistry. Meteorology. Physics. Farm Science.

The one I visited was about polution and cleaning up polution which has nothing to do with Geology. However, many of the one’s I have read up on recently are all about Geology.

Any comments?

Keep up the great work everyone! From what I hear, Earthcaches Rock.

[Lostby7]

First of all this is the website you need to visit for specifics:
http://www.earthcache.org/

“An EarthCache site is a special place that people can visit to learn about a unique geoscience feature or aspect of our Earth. Visitors to EarthCache sites can see how our planet has been shaped by geological processes, how we manage the resources and how scientists gather evidence to learn about the Earth.”

“EarthCache sites must provide Earth science lessons. They take people to sites that can help explain the formation of landscapes or to sites of interesting phenomena such as folds, faults, intrusions or reveal how scientists understand our Earth (such as fossil sites etc.)”

“EarthCache sites must be educational. They provide accurate but simple explanations of what visitors will experience at the site. Cache notes must be submitted and assume no previous knowledge of earth science. The educational notes must be written to a reading age of an upper middle school (14 year old) student. Avoid direct plagiarism from web sources and quote sources of information where appropriate. Additional technical or scientific notes can be provided for the scientific community. Please note appropriate place on the submittal form for the technical notes. All notes can be submitted in the local language but must also be in English.”

As far as topics go you can do rocks, erosion, water, impacts from outer space. Basically if it shapes the Earth (naturally) it is usually OK. One of the most common Earthcache types here have to do with glacial features due to the fact that Wisconsin was carved up fairly well during the Ice Age. Specifics are covered on the Earthcache website.

I too did the Earthcache you allude to I highlighted in red above what I think qualifies that one as an Earthcache…

Biology (and presumably other sciences) can be mentioned but cannot be the focus of the cache unless they meet the criteria specified on the website… GC15BZ5 is an example of this. If you have specific questions about what might work, you could contact Geoaware through the GC profile.

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