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 17 - Aug 11, 2026 The Black Hills Natural Sciences Field Station (BHNSFS) is a cooperative program hosted by the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology (South Dakota Mines) that provides extensive field training in geology and geological engineering. Operating for over 40 years, it is one of the largest summer field programs in the world with camps in nine countries and 14 locations.
Credit Hours: 3-4, 5-6
University of Puerto Rico Summer Geological Field Course
Jun 8 - Jul 17, 2026 The UPRM Summer Geology Field Course is a 6-credit, fully accredited program that has trained students for over 35 years in Puerto Rico's diverse tropical geology. Students gain hands-on experience in bedrock and geomorphic mapping, GIS applications, and study marine terraces, carbonates, volcaniclastic rocks, peridotite, skarns, and intrusives along an active plate boundary. Open to students worldwide, the course offers a unique bilingual learning environment (Spanish fluency not required) with transferable credits and no passport required for U.S. citizens.
Credit Hours: 5-6
Indiana University Field Geology in the Rocky Mountains
Jun 8 - Jul 21, 2026 Field Geology in the Rocky Mountains (EAS-X429) is our capstone course designed to prepare students to be successful in a geoscience career and/or geoscience graduate school program. This 6-week, 6-credit 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 (see our website for more information).
Credit Hours: 5-6
GLG413: Field Geology
Jun 22 - Jul 22, 2026 Our camp is in southern Montana and northern Wyoming and focuses on traditional field-based geologic mapping, stratigraphy, cross section construction, and field methods. Lodging and meals at the Yellowstone-Bighorn Research Association, transportation to and from Springfield, and a new Brunton transit (for you to keep) is covered in the cost.
Credit Hours: 5-6
Intro to Field Geology and Geologic Field Camp
Jun 29 - Aug 9, 2026 Two three-week sections (ERTH137 & ERTH138). ERTH137 introduces the student to the tools and techniques for geologic mapping in the field. ERTH138 is an intensive geologic mapping course at a field camp near Mt. Abel at an elevation of 6200 feet, in the Cuyama Badlands and the Ridge Basin near Gorman, CA.
Credit Hours: Other
Geology Field Camp in the Dolomites of Italy
Jul 1-21 2026 This is the evolution of the traditional geology field camp! It is a hybrid course that consists of ~ two weeks of online instruction (both synchronous and asynchronous) and 3 weeks of field mapping in the Dolomites of Eastern Italy. The field part is modeled as an apprenticeship; students work with professional geologists. The minimal travel time to outcrops and the field location makes it possible to carry out several mapping projects in a short time.
Credit Hours: 5-6
Advanced Field Geology
Jul 17 - Aug 7, 2026 This is a 4-credit course offered from mid July to mid August. Our field areas are located in the Superior Province as exposed in and around Ely. MN and include Archean, Paleo- and Mesoproterozoic exposures . Over the three-week course, you will learn how to map in detail at 1:5000 scale in areas with limited rock exposures, log core, and correlate field data across three different sites. Emphasis will be placed on igneous and metamorphic processes, mineralization, and deformation.
Credit Hours: 3-4
University of Minnesota Hydrogeology Summer Field Course
Jul 22 - Aug 12, 2026 This 3-week field camp (2 weeks in-person at the U MN Itasca Biological Research Station, and a total of 1 week synchronous-hybrid out of the UMN-Twin Cities campus) focuses on our field site in north-central Minnesota in a glacial/fluvial aquifer system. Enrollment is limited to 30 students in order to maintain a low student to instructor ratio. Activities include aquifer pump tests, groundwater-surface water methods, and technical report writing (more on our website). In past years, we've had a good mix of students from U Minnesota and from other schools, and we believe that enriches everyone's experience. This course has an undergraduate level course number (ESCI 4971W, majority of students) and a graduate level course number (ESCI 5971, most years, 1-3 students).
Credit Hours: 1-2, 3-4, Other
UGA Geology Field School in Canon City, CO
May 17 - Jun 24, 2027 Students measure, describe, and correlate classic Paleozoic and Mesozoic stratigraphic sections in the Cañon City area of central Colorado. These observations are used to construct geologic maps, cross sections, and stratigraphic columns. In addition, there is one major field trip that emphasizes the sedimentological, structural, and tectonic evolution of the Colorado Plateau in eastern Utah and western Colorado.
Credit Hours: 5-6