FIELD CAMPS 2026

Open to Everyone

 

 

Black Hills - SD, WY

Geology Field Camp  Session One May 18 - June 19
Geology Field Camp  Session Two June 22 - July 24
Geology Field Camp  Session Three June 22 - July 10

Geological Engineering    May 18 - June 19

Petroleum Field Camp     July 27 - August 11

Environmental/Groundwater Camp May 18 - June 2 - 7

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 21 - August 6-11

Ecuador - Andes

Two Camps - 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    

 Western California 

Depositional Systems Field Camp   

 Montana  

Geology Field Camp        May 17 - June 18

rkiye

Geology Field Camp      June 1 - July 3

 France 

Geology Field Camp       June 30 - July 21 

 Morocco

Geology Field Camp       May 18 - June 19

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