The Oswego State University geologic field program is designed to provide students with an opportunity to learn how to conduct geologic field research under rugged and rustic condition. The field program is centered around research project, where students participate in original research directed by the camp faculty. The locations for the field program are driven by scientific field problems that need to be addressed with specific focus on the geology of the Adirondack Mountains and Thousand Islands regions of New York State. The Adirondack Mountains and Thousand Islands regions of northern New York, and surrounding areas provide an opportunity for the study of some classic problems in North American geology. Much of the field study is located within the limits of the Adirondack Park which forms the six million acre centerpiece of New York State's environmental planning and natural resource management policy, and represents a bold experimental model for large-scale land use planning and ecosystem preservation for the 21st century. The Adirondacks occur in a deeply exhumed structural window that peers into the Proterozic Grenvillian crust of eastern North America. The highlands are composed of a well exposed suite of igneous plutons, metasedimentary, and metavolcanic rocks that vary in age from about >1.3 to 1.0 billion years old. The Adirondacks are flanked by lower to middle Paleozoic strata of the Appalachian basin (Thousand Islands and Tug Hill Plateau regions). Each field season, our students are challenged with mapping sections of ductile shear zones, plutons and their marginal facies, sequences of metavolcanic and metasedimentary rocks, and clastic-carbonate sedimentary rock sequences. These projects include field kinematic analysis of mylonite zones, fault, fold and fracture analysis.