> Deadlines
The application deadline for SUMMER 2008 is February 29th the application deadline for FALL 2008 is April11. Participants will be notified by the end of the week following the application deadline. An initial deposit of $1,000 must be made to confirm participation. The final fee payment (balance of all fees) must be paid prior to departure. Late applications will be considered on a space-available basis. A waiting list is maintained to fill vacancies created by withdrawals.

Since the GeoJourney obtains its funding from student fees, late withdrawals jeopardize the program for all participants.
See the refund policy on the "Forms" link for complete details.

*Applications are available under the link "Apply On-line". Along with your application, please include contact information for two references and a brief statement of your goals as a student in the program.

Schedule
This example is posted to give you an idea of how our schedule runs. The exact itinerary varies from year to year.

> Week One
Day 1: Depart BGSU to Chicago via Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore.
Themes: Aeolian features, taking notes in the field.
CAMP: Illinois Beach State Park
Lecture w/ discussion: Introduction to Environmental Studies; Humans in the natural world; philosophies of resource management: Conservation, preservation and restoration

Day 2: Field Museum, Chicago.
Themes: Origin of the Universe, Earth, Life, Evolution, Fossils, and Overview of Native Peoples of North America
CAMP: Illinois Beach State Park
Lecture w/discussion: Overview of Humans and their relationship to water; Water Resources- Disappearing Great Lakes?

Day 3: To Sioux Falls, SD
CAMP: Palisades SP
Lecture: Structure of the Earth and Plate Tectonics
Lec/Lab: Mineral Identification

Day 4: To Beulah, WY
CAMP: Black Hills Natural Science Field Station
Lecture: Intro to Native Americans
Lec/Lab: Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks

Day 5: To Harney Peak via Lead, SD
Themes: Minerals, Volcanic & Plutonic Igneous Rocks, Metamorphic Facies, the Laramide Orogeny
CAMP: Black Hills Natural Science Field Station
Lab/Lecture: Weathering, Erosion, Fluvial Processes, Sediments, Stratigraphy and Sedimentary Rocks.

Day 6: To Badlands National Park, Pine Ridge Reservation & Wounded Knee
Themes: Stratigraphy and Fossils of the Cenozoic I, Indian Wars and the modern reservation.
CAMP: Black Hills Natural Science Field Station
Lecture w/discussion: Managing Agriculture; sustainability, genetically modified organism and the "green revolution"
Lec/Lab: Types of fossils and identification of major phyla I

Day 7: To Custer State Park to Mammoth Site at Hot Springs, SD
Themes: bison and grasslands past and present; the effects of ranching.
Cenozoic Fossils II
CAMP: Black Hills Natural Science Field Station
Lec/Lab: Structural Geology

> Week Two
Day 8: To Devils Tower NM
Themes: Topo exercise: Devils Tower NM. Lab: Identification of major phyla II.
CAMP: Black Hills Natural Science Field Station
Lab: Geologic Time Lab
Study time for Exam 1

Day 9: EXAM 1
DAY OFF: Black Hills, Rapid City, SD
CAMP: Black Hills Natural Science Field Station

Day 10: To Big Horn Mountains & Wyodak Power Plant, Gillette, WY
Themes: Geology of Coal Deposits & Coal Power Production
CAMP: Sitting Bull
Discussion: Cultural chronology of North American regions

Day 11: To Sheep Mountain Anticline & Washakie Museum (Colby site)
Themes: Geology of fossils of the Big Horn Mtns./Great Basin (Paleozoic, Mesozoic) Trace Fossils: Dinosaur Tracks.
CAMP: Sitting Bull
Discussion: International and U.S. strategies for natural area protection.

Day 12: To Sheep Mountain Anticline, Greybull WY
Theme: Structural Mapping: Sheep Mountain Anticline.
CAMP: Sitting Bull

Day 13: To Gardiner, MT via Hayden Valley & Grand Canyon of Yellowstone
Theme: An alternative method of bison management
CAMP: Rocky Mountain Campground, Gardiner, MT
Discussion: Overview of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (wolves, bison, disease ecology and ranching)

Day 14: Yellowstone NP
Themes: The effects of fire on forest ecosystems, geology of Yellowstone: Bimodal volcanism, hydrothermal features- Old Faithful, Norris Geyser Basin. Life at High Temperatures & Archean Life
CAMP: Gardiner, MT
Discussion: Plains Indians

> Week Three
Day 15: Museum of the Northern Rockies. To Butte, MT: Berkley Pit, Montana School of Mines Mineral Museum, Boulder Batholith & copper ore outcrop
Themes: Mesozoic Terrestrial Fauna, Mineral Mining and Environmental issues
CAMP: Lost Creek SP

Day 16: Butte, MT
Themes: Water Project- Acid Mine Drainage.
CAMP: Lost Creek SP
Evening: Analysis of samples and report write-up.

Day 17: To Glacier NP via Camas Prairie.
Theme: The Missoula Flood & Catastrophism.
CAMP: Glacier Campground

Day 18: DAY OFF: Glacier, NP.
CAMP: Glacier Campground

Day 19: Glacier NP
Themes: AM: Topo Exercise of Alpine Glacial Features at Logan Pass. PM: Geology of Glacier- Proterozoic Fossils (Stromatolites) and Sedimentary Rocks: The Geology of the Belt Series.
CAMP: Glacier Campground
Lecture: Biodiversity- Effects of Humans on Wilderness Areas.

Day 20: To Farragut State Park Idaho.
Theme: Continental Glaciation and Climate of Pleistocene.
CAMP: Farragut State Park
Discussion: Arctic/Subarctic Indians

Day 21: Channel Scablands, Grand Coulee Dam, Dry Falls, Gingko State Park (Fossil Plants and Columbia River Flood Basalts)
Themes: water resources, hydroelectric power, flood basalts, petrified wood, petroglyphs
CAMP: Yakima Sportsman SP
Lecture: Development of Cascade Range, Subduction
Video: Cadillac Desert I

> Week Four
Day 22: To Mt. St. Helens NVM.
Themes: eruption of Mt. St. Helens, Volcanic Geologic Hazards
CAMP: Climbers' Bivouac

Day 23: Mt. St. Helens Hike. Ape Cave
Themes: Past Eruptions of Mt. St. Helens, Lava Tubes
CAMP: Climbers' Bivouac, Mount St. Helen’s NVM
Evening Discussion: Forests in the West

Day 24: Portland Regional Development Authority. The Dalles Dam
Themes: salmon, dams, and the collapse of native resources.
CAMP: Memaloose SP
Discussion: Fisheries: U.S. Canadian and Japanese perspectives

Day 25: EXAM 2
DAY OFF: Portland, OR
CAMP: Memaloose SP

Day 26; To High Desert Museum and Warm Springs Indian Museum
Themes: Plateau Indians, High Desert Environments
CAMP: Tumalo SP
Discussion: Pacific Northwest and Plateau Indians

Day 27: To Crater Lake, rim tour,
Themes: Development of Calderas and Lake Ecosystems
CAMP: Crater Lake NP
Discussion: Habitat Fragmentation

Day 28: To Redwood National Park
Themes: Old Trees & Forest Resources.
CAMP Van Buren SP

> Week Five
Day 29: To Point Reyes National Seashore
CAMP: Olema Ranch, CA
Discussion: California Indians

Day 30: Point Reyes National Seashore.
Themes: Coastal Miwok, Earthquake Trail, McClure’s Beach: Active Margins, Holocene Marine Life (modes of life).
CAMP: Olema Ranch, CA

Day 31: To San Francisco
Themes: Geology of the Bay Area, Development of the Franciscan Terrain, Geohazards of the Bay Area: Earthquakes and Landslides.
CAMP: Olema Ranch, CA

Day 32: DAY OFF: San Francisco & Muir Woods, CA
CAMP: Olema Ranch, CA
Day 33: To Yosemite via Great Valley Project
Themes: Agriculture and Water Projects in California, Aeolian Energy
CAMP: Yosemite NP

Day 34: Yosemite Valley, Bridal Vail Falls, Glacier Point
Themes: Yosemite Miwok, Development of the Sierra Nevada
CAMP: Yosemite
Discussion: Environmental Consequences of NAFTA

Day 35: Yosemite: Sequoia Grove, Topo Exercise (Glacial Features): Tuolumne Meadows.
Themes: Glacial Features, Climate Change in the Sierra Nevada
CAMP: Mammoth Lakes, CA
Video: Cadillac Desert II

> Week Six
Day 36: AM: Eastern Sierra Nevada: North Lake, Bishop Tuff, Owen's Valley and the L.A. Aqueduct. Paiute/Shoshone Museum
Themes: Physical Weathering and Contact Metamorphism, Mesozoic Subduction Water Resources for Los Angeles, Geothermal Energy, Indians of the Basin and Range
CAMP: Mammoth Lakes
Discussion: White- Indian Relations

Day 37: To Death Valley National Park: Stove Pipe Well, Furnace creek, Badwater, Dante’s View.
Theme: Development of the Basin and Range, Playa Lakes, Alluvial Fans
CAMP: Toiyabe NF

Day 38: Yucca Mountain Nuclear Repository Tour
Theme: Dealing with long term Nuclear Waste storage: geology, anthropology and the environment
CAMP: Toiyabe NF
Discussion: Urban Sprawl- population change in Las Vegas

Day 39: EXAM 3
EVENING OFF: Las Vegas, NV.
CAMP: Toiyabe NF

Day 40: To the Museum of N. Arizona via Hoover Dam & Lake Mead.
Themes: Hydroelectricity & Water Resources for the American Southwest, The Colorado River: The American Nile, Urbanization and Sprawl, Overview of Indians in the southwest
CAMP: Woody Mountain RV Park
Video: Cadillac Desert III

Day 41: To Grand Canyon National Park: Desert View, Grandview via Sunset Crater and the Navajo Reservation
Themes: Cinder Cone Volcanoes, Navajo Indians past and Present, Geomorphic development of the Grand Canyon and Colorado Plateau
CAMP: Ten X, Kaibab NF
Discussion: Southwest Indians, the Anasazi

Day 42: Grand Canyon NP- Mapping Exercise
Themes: Paleozoic Geology of the American Southwest
CAMP: Phantom Ranch, Grand Canyon NP
Discussion: Air Pollution in the Grand Canyon

> Week Seven
Day 43: Grand Canyon NP- Hike from River to Indian Gardens
Themes: Development of Precambrian Basement Rocks of the Colorado Plateau, Cambrian Transgression, Fossils of the Paleozoic I
CAMP: Indian Gardens, Grand Canyon NP

Day 44: Grand Canyon NP- Hike from Indian Gardens to South Rim.
Themes: Paleozoic Geology/ Climate of the Colorado Plateau, Fossils of the Paleozoic II
CAMP: Ten X, Kaibab NF
Evening: Complete Mapping Project

Day 45: To Zion NP, The Narrows Hike
Themes: Stream Discharge and Fluvial Processes (Lab and Topo Exercise) CAMP: Zion Campground
Discussion: Modern Navajo and Pastoralisism

Day 46: Zion NP: Angel's Landing Hike. To Bryce Canyon National Park: Navajo Trail Hike.
Themes: Overcoming Natural Fears, Mesozoic, Cenozoic Geology/Climate of the Colorado Plateau, Playa lakes and Sabkha Flats.
CAMP: Kodachrome Basin SP
Discussion: Light Pollution

Day 47: To Capitol Reef National Park (Structural Geology) via Grand Staircase- Escalante National Monument.
Themes: Continuation of the Geology of the Grand Staircase.
CAMP: Arches NP

Day 48: Arches NP & Canyon Lands National Park.
Theme: Head ward erosion, Aeolian Erosional Features
CAMP: Arches NP

Day 49: To Mesa Verde NP- Mancos shale fossil collecting stop.
Themes: Fossils of the Mesozoic Seaway II
CAMP: Mesa Verde NP
Discussion: Anasazi and Agriculture

> Week Eight
Day 50: Exam 4
DAY OFF: Durango, CO
CAMP: Mesa Verde NP

Day 51: Mesa Verde NP: Geology stops, Cliff Palace Hike, Kiva Development Walk
Themes: Geology of Mesa Verde Group, Mesozoic Plants, Development of Anasazi Civilization.
CAMP: Mesa Verde NP
Discussion: Fire ecology and management

Day 52: To Chaco Canyon NHP: Pueblo Alto Hike, Loop Tour of Great houses
Theme: Stratigraphic Correlation of the Mesa Verde Group, The Chaco Phenomenon
CAMP: Chaco NHP

Day 53: To Bandelier National Monument and the Jemez Mountains.
Theme: Continental Rift Zones and Bimodal Volcanism, Late stages of Anasazi.
CAMP: Bandelier NM
Lecture/Discussion: Groundwater; Aquifers as a resource

Day 54: To Wichita Falls, TX via Petroleum Refinery
Theme: Petroleum Resources
CAMP: Lake Arrowhead SP
Discussion: Southeastern Indians

Day 55: To Poverty Point SHP, LA, Loess Deposits in Vicksburg
Theme: Earthworks of Archaic Indians, the Mississippi River and Agriculture
CAMP: Battlefield Inn Campground
Discussion: Coastal Zone management; Shrimp and the Breaux Act

Day 56: to Waterford Nuclear Power Plant
EVENING OFF: New Orleans.
CAMP: Bayou Segnette SP

> Week Nine
Day 57: New Orleans
Themes: Geology of New Orleans, Coastal and Flood Hazards.
CAMP: Bayou Segnette SP
Discussion: Humans desire to remake the land- mounds, canals and dams

Day 58: To Kolomoki Mounds SP, GA
Theme: Earthworks of Woodland Indians
CAMP: Kolomoki SP
Discussion: TVA and Eastern dams

Day 59: To Jekyll Island, GA via Okefenokee Swamp.
Themes: Climate change effects on sea level from K-T boundary to present, Development of the Coastal Plain, Inland Barrier Island Migration, Mineral Resources and Environmental Issues in the Okefenokee Swamp, Eastern Forest Management.
CAMP: Jekyll Island
Discussion: Southeastern Forests, Dogwood Alliance

Day 60: To Sapelo Island: Nanny Goat Beach, Salt Marsh walk, Shell Ring:
Themes: Archaic Indians, Eastern Fisheries, Passive Margins, Barrier Islands
CAMP: Jekyll Island
Discussion: Ishmael wrap up- Do humans have 'rights'/obligations with regard to the natural environment?

Day 61: To Athens, GA via Ocmulgee NM
Themes: the Athens Gneiss, development of the Piedmont (Allegheny and Taconic Orogeny), Mississippian Indians
CAMP: Watson Mill Bridge SP
Evening: EXAM 5

Day 62: To Smoky Mountain NP via Oconalufte Indian Village, Cherokee, NC
Themes: Geology of Appalachian Mountains: Development of the Valley and Ridge, the Blue Ridge- Hike: Clingman’s Dome
Clean-up
CAMP: Hotel- Gatlinburg, TN

Day 63: Return to BGSU