Summer Field Camp
2020 Field Camp information
Planned Dates: May 20 to June 21, 2020
Applications for 2020 will be due January 31, 2020.
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 traverse the North American Cordillera during field exercises across Nevada and Utah, with especially memorable field trips to Great Basin National Park and the Snake Range metamorphic core complex.
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