Prepare yourself for the “Moment of Discovery” LINKS >  Home >  Team Members >  About our Area >  Workshops > Costs and Registration > Registration Form >   Dinosaur Fossil Sites >  Image Gallery >  GeoScience Center Project >   Wyoming Artist Group CONTACT US GeoScience Adventures 1802 Highway 14 E Shell, Wyoming 82441 Phone: (307) 765-2259 or (866) 765-2259 toll free Mobile (406) 672-1462 By email: geosci@tctwest.net Comments from some of the educators who have taken the workshops: “Thanks for freeing me from being geologically challenged” (Erik’s favorite comment) “A great workshop! Lots of information and knowledge – the handbook was also very helpful. This whole workshop has just been delightful”. “I have really added to my knowledge. Knowledge is Power” (Cliff’s favorite comment) “All I can say is GREAT! Food was great…just a fantastic course in all ways”  (Row’s favorite comment)

GeoScience Educational Adventures Educational Field Workshops -  Geology and Paleontology

Looking for Fun and Adventure? Need teacher professional recertification credits? Do you love fossils and, in particular, dinosaurs? Just want to learn more about the Earth Sciences? Our workshops are very popular with K-12 teachers and advanced students who need college credit or professional recertification.  They are also quite popular with adults who are interested in spending three days in the field with professional scientists - the freewheeling discussions are very enlightening! A family vacation in the Bighorn Basin area that includes one or more of our workshops would allow you to pursue “Lifelong Learning” while enjoying the area’s natural resources. Educational Workshops – 2010 UNDERSTANDING TOPOGRAPHIC MAPS - How to read, interpret, and use contour maps Iowa State University Course Number: Geology (Geol) 593X, section XB June 14 through 16, 2010 Instructors: Kim Sowder (GISP) Knowing where you are can certainly help you figure out where you’re going. For hundreds of years, man has relied on maps to define his known world. Maps were drawn to show boundaries, locations of important places, and transportation corridors. They were two-dimensional representations of our three-dimensional world, drawn from observed or described features or places. This workshop will teach you all about U.S. Geological Survey topographic maps: how to read them, what’s contained in the border information, field applications and measurements, how they can be used with a compass, projections, and triangulation. Workshop participants will also be introduced to Geographic Information System (GIS) concepts as well as learning how to effectively utilize global positioning systems (GPS ) in the field. We’ll be taking maps out into the beautiful Big Horn Basin and surrounding area to see how mapping concepts are used in a real-world setting. Moderate hiking will be required. Geology OF SHEEP MOUNTAIN ANTICLINE  June 18 through 20, 2010 Instructors: Dr. Erik Kvale continents appear to be everlasting and unchanging.  Yet our world is an unstable place that is constantly being squeezed, uplifted, pulled apart and broken. View the manifestations of these changes as we spend three days in the field exploring Sheep Mountain Anticline near Greybull, Wyoming, one of the world’s most famous doubly plunging asymmetric anticlines. We will view and discuss some of the best examples of geologic folding to be found anywhere.  You will be introduced to topographic maps, aerial photographs, geologic mapping and geologic features that will include faults, folds, and injection structures.  We will relate these geologic features to the discovery and recovery of oil, gas, bentonite, and water in the Bighorn Basin and we will talk about the geologic age of these structures.   Be prepared to see some beautiful geology and to do some significant off-road hiking in potentially warm to hot weather. There will be quite a bit of hiking of up to four miles each day, and climbing up and down steep slopes, so participants must be physically able to spend three days in the field in rugged open terrain, carrying their own water and supplies.  Dinosaur Paleoecology and Geology - The Life and Times of Wyoming’s Jurassic Dinosaurs June 23 through 25, 2010 Instructors: Dr. James Farlow and Dr. Michael Brett-Surman. This workshop will focus on the geological formations that represent the Jurassic and Cretaceous Periods of northern Wyoming – the Gypsum Spring, Sundance, Morrison and Cloverly Formations. These formations contain some of the most spectacular dinosaur and marine reptile remains in Wyoming. Learn how scientists use data from fossils in terms of their life cycle, their living interactions, their natural environment, their manner of death and burial, to reconstruct the ecosystems of the past. One of the basic tenets of geology is that people do not learn it unless they see it in the field. We will spend significant time examining different rock types with hands on activities for the participants in terms of rock identification. We will be hiking off-road, looking at index fossils, trace fossils, and body fossils. Click here for more Workshop Images. College and Professional Certification Credits: Wyoming Professional Teaching Standards Board has approved each workshop for two (2) hours of professional growth credit. University of Wyoming Outreach Program has approved each workshop for two (2) hours enrichment credit.       Last Modified: 3-17-2010          Copyright © 2008-2010  GeoScience Adventures, Inc. All rights reserved                                            (except for images and text as noted)    You are visitor # :