Field Course in Ireland: May 18 - June 26, 2010

• Application Information
• Field Course Faculty
• Program Costs
• Sample Projects
• Schedule
• View 2010 Flyer (pdf)

Application Information

• E-mail contact info:
  • Dr. Steven J. Whitmeyer whitmesj_at_jmu.edu
  • Dr. L. Scott Eaton eatonls_at_jmu.edu

• Application Deadlines
  • November 2, 2009
  • Late applications will be considered through early 2010, until the course is filled.

• Application materials must include:
  • application form for short-term summer admission
  • official transcript
  • recommendation from a geoscience faculty member
  • personal statement explaining why you want to attend the JMU Ireland field course

Program Costs

(Subject to Change)

• Tuition for 6 credits
  • (~ $1600 for Virginia students and ~ $4300 for out-of-state students)
• Supplemental fee of ~ $2300.
• Fees include most food, lodging and transportation within Ireland;
• Airfare to and from Ireland not included
  

 

Sample Projects and Information

• Lodging and Accomodations
• Leisure Activities
• Glacial Geomorphology Mapping
• Digital Mapping
• Mapping Projects
• Environmental Projects
• Field Equipment List

Schedule

• Weeks 1-4:
• General field methods
• Traditional and Digital Mapping
• Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology
• Regional Tectonic Syntheses
• Glacial Geomorphology

 

• Weeks 5-6: Choose 1 of 2 Tracks
  
  Track 1: Clastic and Carbonate Sedimentary Systems
  • Sequence Stratigraphy
  • Basin Analysis
  • Petroleum Geology Applications
  Track 2: Environmental Geology and Hydrogeology
  • Riverine Hydrology
  • Aqueous Geochemistry
  • Landslide Evaluation
  
  
• Draft 2010 daily schedule (pdf)