Florida State University Geology Field Camp

Hosted by: Florida State University

2026-05-11-2026-06-16

https://www.eoas.fsu.edu/undergrad-degrees/geology/summer-field/

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Students taking notes on the Colorado Trip within the Lake City Caldera, San Juan Mountains, CO.

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Students taking water quality and flow measurements.

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Description

An incredibly geologically varied landscape, experienced-enthusiastic faculty, and over 50 years of tradition teaching geosciences in the field from northern New Mexico are at the core of our Field Geology (GLY4790) course offerings at FSU. The course is a 6 credit hour course in field geology in a spectacular setting to engage in hands-on learning of geology. This area of the Rocky Mountains is a classic region for observing and interpreting a wide range of Earth history. Our field course will give upper level undergraduate and beginning graduate students the observational skills and experience, the interpretative framework, and the self confidence to undertake detailed field studies in a variety of geologic settings. We believe that students learn the most from hands-on experience, working daily to observe and measure geologic features and phenomena, to place these data into a larger Earth history framework, and to build hypotheses that they can test with continued work. Students are exposed to projects in which they learn and apply basic principals of stratigraphy, sedimentology, paleontology, structure, mineralogy and petrology to solving problems of varied complexity in a number of geologic settings.

Credits

N/A

Application Deadline

2026-03-01

Costs

Tuition - $700.00
Other course fees - $2000.00

Other Important Information

Contact Info

For more information, contact Seth Young (sayoung2@fsu.edu) or Jeremy Owens (jdowens@fsu.edu)