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ENVS 530: Rocky Mountain Field Geology & Ecology
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Penn's Rocky Mountain course was designed for the Master's of Environmental Studies Program, however students from the Masters of Liberal Arts and the Undergraduate program participate each summer. instructor). This is a two-week intensive field course in the geology natural history and ecology of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, which comprises a range of environments from the mile-high semi-deserts of intermontaine basins tot he alpine tundra of the Beartooth Plateau above 12,000 feet.
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Students mine for trilobite fossils at Little Bear Creek, on top of the Beartooth Mountains in Wyoming. |
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Liz Lovelock ('05), attempts to explain the complex geometry of the Mountain Front near Red Lodge, Montana.
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Sue Maisel (MLA '07) displays a jar of plankton for the class. Students use plankton nets to collect samples of organisms from several Alpine Lakes. The sample collections are then compared.
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