Field Camp

Previous Field Camps Attended

• South Dakota School of Mines and Tech
  • Field Area: Black Hills, SD

• Iowa State University
  • Field Area: Big Horn Mountains

Ranch A at SDSMT, a typical field camp lodging

South Dakota School of Mines trip in Black Hills, SD. (2016)

See Virginia Tech’s website for a more extensive listing.

Finding Scholarships

• The website from the Wasatch-Uinta Field Camp lists several scholarships
  • http://www.fieldcamp.org/content/sources-funding-field-camp
• The David S. Miller Young Scientist Scholarship (AGU) is loosely defined, but it might be able to be used for field camp
  • http://education.agu.org/grants/scholarships/
• L Austin Weeks Undergraduate Grant – This grant is awarded for undergraduate research but the funds can be applied to Field Camp
  • http://foundation.aapg.org/students/undergraduate/weeks.cfm
• Society of Exploration Geologists
  • http://www.seg.org/education/student-and-early-career/scholarship-process
• Bighorn Basin Field Award – This is actually a scholarship to attend a weeklong field seminar on basin analysis in August. You may be interested if you want to go into oil.
  • https://rock.geosociety.org/eo/