Summer Field Camp
Dates of 2019 field camp:
May 22 - June 23
Applications for 2019 are due January 30, 2019. Application link.
Contact Field Camp Director Andrew Zuza:
azuza@unr.edu
The Department of Geological Sciences and Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno, offers a comprehensive, capstone, five-week, six-credit summer geology field camp class. The focus of the course will be to develop advanced field skills, including rock description, generation of geologic maps, and illustrating the geometries of deformed rocks with cross-sections. Through a series of mapping-based exercises, field camp students will gain the ability to understand complex field relations in three dimensions. This is enhanced by the incredible geologic setting of these exercises, which includes several world-class geologic sites in eastern Nevada, in the heart of the Basin-and-Range province, and in eastern California, where the Basin-and-Range meets the Sierra Nevada.
Students will spend approximately half the course in eastern Nevada, with an especially memorable fieldtrips to Great Basin National Park and the Snake Range metamorphic core complex. The second half of the course will be in eastern California, including a visit to Tuolumne Meadows in Yosemite National Park to examine the Sierra arc and related intrusions.
Our Alumni Include
Students from all over the U.S. have participated in the University of Nevada's Summer Field Camp:
- Arizona State University
- Boston University
- Case Western Reserve
- CCNY
- Central Michigan University
- Clemson University
- Colby College
- College of Charleston
- Edinboro University of Pennsylvania
- Grand Valley State University
- Harvard University
- Keene State College
- Muskingum College, Texas
- Pacific Lutheran College
- Portland State University
- Sacramento State University
- Saint Lawrence College
- San Francisco State University
- San Jose State University
- Sonoma State University
- Southern Mississippi University
- Texas A&M University
- UCLA
- University of Alaska, Fairbanks
- University of Arkansas
- University of Delaware
- University of Maine
- University of Maryland
- University of Nebraska, Omaha
- University of Nevada, Las Vegas
- University of New Hampshire
- University of North Carolina
- University of Puget Sound
- University of Southern California
- Vanderbilt University
- Washington University
- Whitman College
- Whittier College