Field Trips

BYU's Geology program is very field-oriented and a global experience. Thanks to the Hamblin Global Fund, geology students have the opportunity to travel the world. Each year the department provides opportunities for advanced undergraduates and graduate students to examine rocks and geological processes at premier localities around the globe. These one- to two-week field trips allow students to do mentored research projects and develop field expertise rarely available to undergraduate students. These programs have studied:

     Active volcanism of Hawaii.

     Tectonic Evolution in the Himalayas

     Carbonate formation in Florida and the Bahamas.

     Tectonism and plutonism in the northeast 
     Appalachians.

     Volcanism and Sedimentology in Italy

     Glaciation and Metamorphism in Switzerland

Scholarships are available that greatly reduce the cost to students.