Clemson Hydrogeology Field Camp
May 13 - Jun 19, 2026 Build practical skills in hydrogeology field work. Topics include spatial mapping, well drilling, core description, water quality and sampling, well testing, soil properties, air and water flow through the vadose zone, and stream flow. Field camp is taught in Clemson, South Carolina, with field trips to different hydrogeologic settings in Tennessee and Kentucky.

Stephen F Austin State University: Field Camp
May 13 - Jun 14, 2026 This field camp will cover a range of geologic settings, primarily within west Texas and New Mexico. The topics will include identifying rocks based on their textures/structures/mineralogy in order to define units and understand the geologic setting, mapping and interpreting geologic structures (e.g. faults and folds), and creating stratigraphic columns and correlations. This course also contains a component of digital mapping, using tablets provided by SFASU.

Idaho State University Geology Field Camp
May 25 - Jun 29, 2026 Idaho State University offers an academically rigorous, experiential course, with an emphasis placed on developing core skills such as the abilities to observe, record, interpret, infer field relationships in four dimensions, and formulate and test hypotheses in a range of rock types and geological environments. Students get the opportunity to work with different faculty experts each week and on a variety of projects each week (e.g., sedimentology-stratigraphy, paleontology, structural geology, volcanology, igneous and metamorphic petrology, geomorphology, neotectonics, Quaternary geology, mountain hydrology, ore deposits, remote sensing, and geochronology). This broad faculty participation from experts in a variety of fields, in addition to the geologic diversity in central Idaho, allows students who complete our field course to become confident, broadly-trained field geologists prepared either to pursue industry careers in the Earth Sciences or dive into research projects in graduate school. The course is hosted at the Lost River Field Station, which includes comfortable amenities such as a class room and main dining space, commercial grade kitchen (all meals prepared by a full time cook), sleeping accommodations (four new student bunkhouses or canvas wall tents, cots, foam pad), bathrooms with showers, laundry facilities, and computers with wireless internet, ArcGIS Pro, Adobe Illustrator, and other software packages that students use to complete projects. Students from outside ISU pay the same price, and are encouraged to apply.

University of Missouri Geology Field Camp
May 31 - Jul 12, 2026 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 measuring stratigraphic sections, analysis of sedimentary facies and environments, working with topographic maps, 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, shallow geophysics (seismic reflection, refraction, and electrical resistivity), and subsurface basin analysis. This course includes a field trip to Yellowstone and Grand Tetons National Parks.