Many aspects of geology and environmental science are best taught in the field. Below are two options for undergrads to receive credit attending Lehigh's geology or environmental science field course. Please pass this on to any undergrads that may be interested. In it's 32nd year, this is one of the most comprehensive, competitively priced field camps available. Thanks! Patrick Belmont ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Wednesday, June 7th to Saturday, July 8th, 2006 $2250, EVERYTHING INCLUDED - tuition, fees, food, travel DO NOT DELAY, CAMP IS BEGINNING TO FILL See webpage for more information: http://www.lehigh.edu/%7Efjp3/fieldcamp/index.html or call Frank Pazzaglia at 610-758-3667 with any questions EES 341 Geology Field Camp (6 credits) For the 32nd consecutive year Lehigh University will conduct a four and a half-week Field Geology course in the northern Rocky Mountains of Wyoming and Idaho. Emphasis is on field mapping and includes projects in folded and faulted sedimentary rocks, intrusive and extrusive igneous rocks, metamorphic rocks, and glacial and mass movement deposits. Mapping is completed on topographic map bases with the aid of color and B & W aerial photographs and GPS receivers. Measurement, description, and correlation of stratigraphic sections is integrated with the mapping projects. Students map in groups of three or four under close supervision by a staff with almost 100 years of combined western experience. Maps are constructed in the field; short courses, compilation of field data, and recreation characterize evenings in camp. Short exercises during the cross country trip expose students to diverse rock-types, mapping, and lithostratigraphy in the Badlands, Black Hills, Devils Tower, Wind River Range, Gros Ventre Slide, Yellowstone and Jackson Hole regions, Craters of the Moon NM, and the active tectonics of the 1983 Mackay, Idaho earthquake. EES 395 Environmental Science Field Camp (6 credits) For the first time in the summer of 2006, we will offer a new Environmental Science Field Camp, that travels along with Geology Field Camp (EES 341), but has its own separate curriculum. We are offering this camp at the junior-senior level as a capstone experience. The curriculum will revolve around basic geology, hydrology, paleoecology, ecology, soils, geomorphology, limnology, and impacts of western landuse and resource management. We will incorporated electronic mapping, GPS, and GIS technology into projects wherever practical. This is a CAMPING field camp. We never stay in a hotel and we prepare and cook all of our food fresh in a communal kitchen. This is also a PHYSICALLY CHALLENGING camp. We do a lot of hiking during the mapping projects. The venue provides excellent and numerous recreational opportunities including fishing, local rodeos, and wilderness backpacking. Evenings and days off include visits to towns such as Wall Drug, SD, Jackson and Pinedale, WY, and Mackay, ID.
