Catawba College biology students travel to Croatan National Forest
Published 12:00 am Thursday, November 15, 2018
Dr. Jay Bolin photo Catawba students Grace Brennen (left) of Cumming, Ga., and Jillian Kurlovech of Clarkston, Mich., standing on the margin of Bogue Sound in Atlantic Beach.
Dr. Jay Bolin photo Catawba student Serena Musselwhite of Salisbury shows off a green tree frog.
Dr. Jay Bolin photo The pitcher plants are Sarracenia rubra, the Sweet Pitcher Plant, seen in Croatan Forest.
Catawba College students in Professor Jay Bolin’s plant taxonomy class traveled to Croatan National Forest to study plant communities.
The group left campus Nov. 1 and returned Nov. 3 after their camping excursion near Maysville on the North Carolina coast.
Bolin is chairman and associate professor of biology at Catawba.
Students in his class who made the trip included Grace Brennen of Cumming, Georgia; Jack Cline of Statesville; Hunter Griffin of Mount Pleasant; Zachary Johnson of Mint Hill; Jillian Kurolvech of Clarkston, Michigan; Serena Musselwhite of Salisbury; Michael Pierce of Kannapolis; Emily Pratt of Knoxville, Tennessee; Dina Reyes Melendez of Winston-Salem; Macayla Upright of Salisbury; Dallas Vann of Clayton; and Jessica Willis of Albemarle.
