GEOLOGY & Environmental Science
FIELD COURSE
Field Course in Ireland: May 18 - June 26, 2010

Application Information
- Application Deadlines
- November 2, 2009
- Late applications will be considered through early 2010, until the course is filled.
- Application materials must include:
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
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)