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Field Camp Alumni Reunion 2008, Stone Valley, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania
Reunion 1997
YBRA Firepit 1998
Reunion 2000
Reunion 2004
Reunion 2008
Misc pictures
Faculty
Current field camp
Penn
State Field Geology has been and continues to
be a capstone experience that integrates
previously-studied subdisciplines of the
geosciences and facilitates visualization of
geologic history from outcrops in the canyons, mountains,
and plains of the American West. For
2006, the camp was shifted to the environs of Coldigioco in the Apennines of Italy. The
course is built around a series of intensive
mapping projects that require solution of geologic puzzles
with all the tools and concepts at the
student's command.
But field camp is also fun in other ways. A group of
people have to live, work, and play together
through wind, rain, sun, cold, vehicle
breakdowns, deadlines, dirty laundry, and
everything else that goes with a journey that
lasts many weeks
and involves different living venues.
Ultimately they find joy in their shared
trials and triumphs. Walter Ebaugh (1971
field camp) has summed it up: "It
was surely the best. I learned almost
everything I know about geology that summer."
If you remember field camp that way, these webpages are designed to let you reminisce but also to reconnect with your past alumni friends. These pages are maintained by Dave Eggler. Make YOUR page more informative; email him with stories and pictures. Almost all the photos were reduced in size for the web; if you'd like an original, email Dave.
In addition to those named on individual pages, general thanks to Barry Voight, Derrill Kerrick, Rudy Slingerland, Kevin (Doc) Hoover and, especially, Duff Gold for photographs and materials.
For the current Department webpage on the Field Camp for current students: click here. In 2010 Don Fisher and Rudy Slingerland wrote an article for the Departmental Newsletter on the modern PSU field camp: click here.
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Penn State is committed to affirmative action, equal opportunity, and the diversity of its workforce. This site is maintained by the Department of Geosciences, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. Please contact Prof. David Eggler if you have questions about this site.
Last Updated Marfch 6, 2012
1925 Field Camp,
probably in Bedford County. Credit: Rudy Slingerland
Fanshawe Lodge, YBRA, Red Lodge, Montana
To
the left: one of the first in a long succession of Field Camp T-shirt
designs.
To the right: In 1989 a spidery "P" and "S" appear in the Salt Lake City foothills next to the "U" of the University of Utah
Professor C A Bonine says something is wrong
with the map of John Ferm. May, 1945, Stone Valley. Credit: Bob Folk
