UTRGVโs Geology Club celebrated its 50th anniversary this year and will continue to have its biweekly club meetings and camping trips.
The Geology Club has meetings from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. every other Tuesday in Science Building 2.607 on the Edinburg campus.
The club has about 30 active members.
โMost of the time our meetings are, โthese are the trips that we have going on. This is the activities that we have going on.โ Just a list of whatโs going on,โ said Brandi Reger, Geology Club president and multidisciplinary studies senior. โHow you can
be involved.โ
The club also invites guest speakers and allows other students to present their research.
โWeโre mostly talking about camping trips,โ Reger said.
Reger said the club tries to stay local since it drives to camping locations.
โLast year, we went to Inkspire, just outside of Austin; Devilโs River, up in Del Rio,โ said Spencer Lindgren, Geology Club vice
president and environmental sciences senior.
Reger said the club attended the Hydro-Geo Workshop in Boerne this school year.
โWe try to stay local because everything is so far, but the club has been out to Mexico, to New Mexico, all the way up to Arkansas.ย โฆ they go all over, depends on how much people there are,โ Lindgren said.
The club usually carpools and drives to locations.
โAs much as we possibly can, we carpool,โ Reger said.
โWe all work together, and weโll say โyou take this stuff. Weโll take this stuffโ,โ Lindgren added.
Reger said she has been a member for two years and joined because she wanted to become involved on campus.
โThis was the coolest group that I had seen,โ Reger said. โI was a part of the Anthropology Club when I started, and it died while I was a member and nobody was doing anything. โฆ and then I found out about the Geology Club, and I got sucked in, and I havenโt left. I actually changed my minor to geology after I joined the Geology Club because I had so much fun with it.โ
She said it ties in well with what she wants to study, archeology.
โIโm trying to understand the sight processes and how people lived and the environment,โ Reger said. โSo, geology really helps to understand the basics of an environment and how that works together. Geology is awesome like that.โ
Lindgren said he has been a member for a year and joined because of a friend. He joined via Skype calls with Edinburg from Brownsville.
โIโm an environmental science major, with a deep interest in camping, being outside, understanding the environment we live in,โ he said.
Lindgren said he wanted to join to meet other students who had a similar interest.
โOr else I probably would have never โฆ met a lot of these people,โ he said. โ[To have] a sense of purpose or a sense of place within the environmental science department.โ
The club will still accommodate any student from Brownsville who wants to join.
The club visited Seminole Canyon last weekend and is already planning another trip.
โWeโre planning to visit Big Bend [National Park] at the end of this semester,โ Reger said. โThat should be awesome.โ
Lindgren said club events are fun.
โNot only if youโre just interested in earth science, but just meeting a group of people that like being outside,โ he said.
โWeโre all nerds about being outside together,โ Reger added while laughing.
Lindgren said the club is open to students of all majors.
โHonestly, if you like camping, if you like talking about outside, or plants, or animals, or whatever; it doesnโt have to be strictly geology,โ he said. โMost of us are environmental science majors, but we have a lot of mixtures as well. If you enjoy anything about this planet, join the Geology Club.โ
