FIELD CAMPS 2025

Open to Everyone

 

Black Hills - SD, WY

Geology Field Camp  Session One May 19 - June 20
Geology Field Camp  Session Two June 23 - July 25
Geology Field Camp  Session Three  July 28 - August 12

Geological Engineering    May 19 - June 20

Petroleum Field Camp     July 28 - August 12

Environmental/Groundwater Camp May 19 -- June 3 - 8

Paleontology Field Camps   Multiple Locations/Dates

Death Valley, CA     

 Winter camp

Geology Field Camp            Dec. 27 - Jan.12-17

 New Zealand

Winter Camp

Depositional Systems Field Camp Dec. 28 - Jan 13-18

    Hawaii           

Two Camps -Winter and Summer

Hawaii Volcanology Field Camps 

             

Winter Session       December 27 - January 12 - 17

 

Summer Session               July 22 - August 7-12

 

Ecuador - Andes

Winter Camp

Volcanology Geology Field Camp   Dec. 27 - Jan. 12

 Arizona

 Winter Camp

Geology Field Camp         Dec. 27 - Jan 12-17

 Utah  

Sequence Stratigraphy Field Camp    May 20 - June 8

 Western California 

Depositional Systems Field Camp    May 20 - June 3

 Montana  

Geology Field Camp        May 22 - June 23

rkiye

Geology Field Camp      May 19 - June 20

 France 

Geology Field Camp       June 28 - July  14 - 19

 Morocco

Geology Field Camp       May 19 - June 20

Spain 

Geology Field Camp      June 8 - July 10

Iceland 

 

Volcanology Field Camp             June 26 - July 16

                                        

Himalayas-Nepal

Geology Field Camp          May 22 - June 10   

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The Black Hills Natural Sciences Field Station (BHNSFS) is a cooperative program formed by a consortium of colleges and universities that offers variety of field courses. Six credit courses are offered from Rapid City, South Dakota, Dillon - Montana, Taskesti Field Station -Türkiye  (located on north Anatolian Fault Zone, about 200 km east of Istanbul),  Pyrenees - Spain, and  Atlas Mountains - Morocco.

 

 

Panoramic view of the Velodrome exposed as a structural window showing in the center highly folded Oligocene-Miocene marine and continental sediments in the external southern Alps..

 

Variety of three and four credit courses offered at number of world wide locations, including Himalayas - Nepal, Iceland,  New Zealand, France and  Ecuador, Big Sur - California, Black Hills - South Dakota and Kilauea - Hawaii. Several Winter Field Camps offered in Death Valley - California, Bullhead City - Arizona, Big Island - Hawaii, New Zealand, and Andes- Ecuador.

 

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Kilauea, Hawaii (above) - 2023 Eruption and  Mediano reservoir and the Pyrenees Range, Spain (below)

 

 

South Dakota Mines serves as the host institution and provides transcripts of credits to the enrollee's parent institution. The consortium comprises of  SD Mines University of North Dakota and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Students from non consortium universities are encouraged to attend the camps.

 

For additional information follow the links or contact :

 

Dr. Nuri Uzunlar

 

Director, Black Hills Natural Sciences Field Station

Professor, Geology and Geological Engineering

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

501 E. St. Joseph Street

Rapid City, SD 57701

  Cell:  (605) 431 1275, Office: (605) 394 - 2494

 

nuri.uzunlar@sdsmt.edu

Course offerings are subject to enrollments. Please visit for updates - last updated on7/27/2024



List of schools
Angelo State University
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Augustana College
Binghamton University
Bloomsburg University
Boston University
Brown University
Bucknell University
California Lutheran University
California State University of Bakersfield
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Clarkson University
Cornell University
Dartmouth College
Duke University
Eastern Connecticut State University
Edinboro University of Pennsylvania
Fredonia State University of New York
George Mason University
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Hamilton College
Indiana University-Purdue University
Kansas State University
Kent State University
Kutztown Univesity of Penn.
Lock Haven University
Louisiana State University
Middlebury College
Minnesota State University - Mankato
Minot State University
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Northern Arizona University
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Occidental College
Ohio Wesleyan University
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Purdue University
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Rutgers University
San Francisco State University
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SDSM&T
Slippery Rock University
Sonoma State University
State University of New York at Fredonia
Stanford
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Texas A&M - Corpus Christi
Texas A&M - Kingsville
Texas Christian University
The College of Wooster
The University of Arizona
The University of Texas at San Antonio
University of North Dakota
University of Alaska Anchorage
University of Alaska Fairbanks
University of California Berkeley
University of California Santa Cruz
University of Delaware
University of Georgia
University of Maine
University of Maryland 
University of Minnesota Morris
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University of Montana
University of New Orleans
University of Northern Colorado
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University of Rhode Island
University of Southern Maine
University of Southern Mississippi
University of Tennessee - Knoxville
University of Texas at Austin
University of Texas at Dallas
University of Texas at San Antonio
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
University of Wisconsin-River Falls
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
Utah State University
UW-Stevens Point
Washington State University
Wayne State University
Whitman College
Youngstown State University

 

Student Testimonials

 

"The people culture, and geology of Turkey were all fantastic. ..."

 

"Managed to learn more geology than I ever thought possible”

 

"This was an intense experience, academically, culturally, and socially”

 

“I had the best experience ever” ,

 

"I had one of the most unique and fulfilling experiences in my lifetime”, 

 

“ A life changing experience",

 

“I learned a lot this summer about geology and myself"