Field Course Collection

Use the browse below to search for a field course that meets your needs. Field courses are listed in chronological order of their start date. You can narrow your results to in-person, online, or hybrid courses using the box on the right side of the page.

Students with questions or concerns, whether academic, logistical, financial, or health-related, are encouraged to contact the field program director to discuss how such concerns might be managed while in the field before committing to a course. These field programs are not vetted by NAGT.


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Geology Field Camps worldwide
May 19 - Aug 10, 2025 From Traditional six credits capstone field camp to specialized 3 to 4 credits field camps on 14 locations worldwide. Short mapping camps to specialized volcanology, sequence stratigraphy, depositional systems, paleontology, engineering geology, environmental, hydrology and petroleum field camps.

Learning Environment: In-person
Credit Hours: 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, Other

University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Field Camp
May 24 - Jul 5, 2025 Our summer geology field camp is designed to expose students to a wide variety of rock types and geologic settings. We spend the first week on the road in the Black Hills/Badlands, Yellowstone National Park, Grand Tetons National Park, and the Uinta Mountains. We then base ourselves in Park City, Utah, from which we travel to other areas of Utah (Capitol Reef National Park), Nevada (Great Basin National Park), and Wyoming. Field areas include intrusive rocks, deformed sedimentary rocks, contact and regionally metamorphosed rocks (greenschist to amphibolite grade), and Quaternary landscapes and deposits.

Learning Environment: In-person
Credit Hours: 5-6

Iowa State Geology Field Camp
May 27 - Jul 2, 2025 The Iowa State University Geology Field Camp provides students with experience in performing field analyses related to structure, stratigraphy, sedimentology, metamorphic processes, energy resources, and environmental science. Our initial exercises hone students' basic field skills, helping them prepare for the more career-relevant projects near the end of the course. Study areas include the Bighorn Basin, Wind River Range, and excursions to Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks.During this course, students will gain experience in:- Geologic mapping of strata and structure using topographic, orthoimage, and/or 3D printed base maps;- Detailed logging and interpretation of sedimentary strata exposed in outcrop;- Designing and implementing drone mapping missions;- Fundamentals of environmental site assessments;- Interpretation and correlation of wireline logs to outcrop data;- Risk assessment of energy resources and underground carbon storage;- Identification and interpretation of igneous/metamorphic rocks in outcrop;- Critical observations and evaluation of geologic data;- Managing of uncertainty/error in field settings; and- Project management and time management skills.

Learning Environment: In-person
Credit Hours: 5-6

University of Missouri Geology Field Camp
May 31 - Jul 11, 2025 The University of Missouri Geology Field Camp is a six-week, six-credit field course based out of the Branson Field Laboratory in the Wind River Range, western Wyoming. Our two-part curriculum focuses on the development of practical skills and career-readiness, beginning with foundational skills and field methods, such as lithologic description, methods in stratigraphy, and geologic mapping. In the final two weeks of the course, students practice experimental design, data collection, and analysis in advanced field methods, including groundwater and surface hydrogeology, seismic reflection and refraction, and subsurface basin analysis. This course includes a five-day field trip to Yellowstone and Grand Tetons National Parks.

Learning Environment: In-person
Credit Hours: 5-6

University of Arizona Geology Field School (Geos 414)
Jun 5 - Jul 8, 2025 This 5-week, 6-credit immersive field course is offered each summer to Geosciences students from the University of Arizona and other universities. Students study a broad range of rock types in various tectonic and geomorphological settings in order to learn the geological and tectonic history of the western North America Cordillera. Students will gain skills in mapping, sedimentology and stratigraphy, petrology-mineralogy and geomorphology and large-scale tectonic synthesis. The course serves juniors, seniors, and graduate students who need to complete a 6-unit Field Experience for degree requirements.

Learning Environment: In-person
Credit Hours: 5-6

Indiana University Field Geology in the Rocky Mountains
Jun 9 - Jul 22, 2025 EAS X429 is our capstone course designed to prepare students to be successful in a geoscience career and/or geoscience graduate school program. This course focuses on the integration of geology, geochemistry, and geophysics to solve 4-dimensional geoscience problems. X429 includes both a 1-week thesis style project and a deep-dive into a subdiscipline concentration of your choosing. Our course is taught at the IU Geologic Field Station in southwestern Montana.

Learning Environment: In-person
Credit Hours: 5-6

Field Geology in Wyoming and Montana
Jun 21 - Jul 26, 2025 Wichita State's summer field camp is a six credit hour (6SCH) camp and will again be offered in two formats, (1) Traditional, in-person trip to the Bighorn Basin of Wyoming and Montana, and (2) Online gamified format serving student accessibility needs (travel, health, etc.) We welcome applications from students from other colleges and universities. The camp is underwritten by the Woolsey Family Fund for Geology Field Camp, which translates to a camp fee waiver (amounting to ~00) for each participating traditional, in-person student.

Learning Environment: On-line , In-person
Credit Hours: 5-6

University of South Florida: Geologic Mapping
Jun 23 - Jul 4, 2025 Students will get introductory instruction in the skills needed to construct geologic maps through field observations and data collection. Field areas for the projects in this course are located in central Idaho and include the recent Borah Peak earthquake fault scarp, glacial moraines and fluvial geomorphic features, deformed early Paleozoic passive margin and Antler Orogeny foreland basin deposits, and Eocene Challis Volcanics. Each project includes 1-3 days of mapping and a whole or part of a day finalizing the map and constructing cross sections of your field areas.

Learning Environment: In-person
Credit Hours: 1-2

Geology Field Camp
Jun 24 - Jul 26, 2025 The Wilkes University geology field camp is a five week, intensive, project focused international field camp located on the island of Newfoundland in Canada and is open to upper level geoscience students enrolled at any college or university. Newfoundland offers a unique cross section of major crustal segments that comprise the Appalachian mountain belt. The field camp curriculum is designed to meet the requirements of most undergraduate Geology B.S. programs, meet the educational standards reported by the American Geosciences Institute (AGI) and many state (including Pennsylvania) professional geologist licensure programs.

Learning Environment: In-person
Credit Hours: 3-4, 5-6, Other

University of South Florida: Field Geophysics
Jul 7-18 2025 Students will get hands-on experience in planning, acquiring, processing, and interpreting geophysical surveys on cinder cones and other volcanic features, faults, and alluvial fans around the Lost River Valley near Mackay, Idaho. Participants work in small groups on magnetic, refraction seismic, ground penetrating radar, and resistivity surveys. We also record and discuss broadband seismic and RTK-GPS data, cover gravity data collection, and introduce recent earthquakes and active tectonics of the field area.

Learning Environment: In-person
Credit Hours: 1-2