OBERLIN COLLEGE GEOLOGY
WINTER TERM PROJECTS
WINTER TERM PROJECTS
In Oberlin, January is known as Winter Term, and our students do either individual or group projects instead of taking regular courses. Each year, the Geology Department sponsors a group project for geomajors. The central focus of this project is an extended field trip to a classical geological field area. The trips we've run in the last decade are:
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1992 |
Bahamian Field Station, San Salvador Island |
"Bahamian Carbonate Environments" |
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Bruce Simonson |
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Bahamian Field Station, San Salvador Island |
"Bahamian Carbonate Environments" |
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Bruce Simonson, Keith Meldahl |
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Bahamian Field Station, San Salvador Island |
"Bahamian Carbonate Environments" |
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Bruce Simonson |
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southern California |
"Field Study of Environmental Hazards in Southern California" |
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Steven Wojtal |
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southern California |
"Regional Geology of Southern California" |
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Keith Meldahl |
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the Indonesian island of Java |
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Bruce Simonson, Scott Hassler |
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southern California |
"Field Study of Environmental Hazards in Southern California" |
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Steven Wojtal |
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St. Croix, Virgin Islands |
"Reefs in Time and Space" |
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Dennis Hubbard, Karla Parsons-Hubbard |
| 2001 | southern California | "Field Study of Environmental Hazards in California" |
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Steven Wojtal |
| 2001 | Ithaca, N.Y. | "Paleoecology Studies of Ancient Sea Life" |
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Karla Parsons-Hubbard, Paul Harnik |
| 2002 | St. Croix, Virgin | "Field Study in Marine Geology" |
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Dennis Hubbard, Karla Parsons-Hubbard |
| 2002 | New Mexico | "Geology in New Mexico" |
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Bruce Simonson, Jon Castro |
Generous donations from Oberlin geoalums have helped make all of these trips possible. In addition, the 1998 Winter Term trip was co-sponsored by the Oberlin Shansi Memorial Association and relied heavily on assistance from faculty members at Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Click here to read an account of our trip to Indonesia. This account was published in the Oberlin Obsever and you can download the entire issue in PDF format.
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The most recent update was May 28, 2003