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1983 Penn State Geosciences Field Camp group
Group at Yellowstone Falls

Field Camp 1983

Students In 1983 options for the Geosciences degree were the general option, biogeology, and geophysics.  The general option and biogeology required Geosc 470, Introduction to Field Geology, during the academic year and summer Geosc 472, Field Geology.  A pre-camp cross-country excursion was available as GSc 471.

Daniel Beaber Douglas Boyer Mark Burrell
Ronald Carper, Jr. Jeffrey Clark Karen Clemens
Amy Clifton Cathleen Collins John Coyne
Brian Cully Glenn Duffield Peter Evans
Mark Hainsey Rob Jacobs Karen Kraynack
Robert Leet Susan Letner Michelle Lorah
Jay Lynch Raymond Miller Gerald O'Neill
Gil Oudijk Jeffrey Painter John Peter
Thomas Rutherford Joanne Salerno Alan Salvadori
Theresa Sanders Jeffrey Schell Kathryn Schultz
Tracy Joe Seibert Daniel Sheftick Lauren Marie Showak
Corey Smith Robert Sobocinski Hugh Swearman
Stephen (Steve) Urbanik Anthony Vellios Michael Waltz
Scott Wendler Robert Wojciak Robert Zelley

Faculty
   Duff Gold, Charles Thornton, Tom Gardner, Rudy Slingerland, Derrill Kerrick

TAs
   Roland Sauermann, Bob Brozdowski

Where They Stayed
   Northwest Community College, Powell, Wyoming; U of U, Salt Lake City; Alta Peruvian Lodge, Alta, Utah

Major Projects
   Elk Basin, Wasatch strip map, Salt Lake area surficial deposits, Alta overthrust, Alta stock

Click on the thumbnails to enlarge the images:

Lead, South Dakota

Homestake Mine

Devils Tower

Wyodak coal mine

Wyodak, drying out

Thermopolis

Thermopolis Hot Spring

Line Creek exercise

Elk Basin mapping

Bob Brozdowski at an Elk Basin fault

Dead Indian Hill

Tower Falls, Yellowstone

Yellowstone outcrop

traversing a pit crater at Craters of the Moon

Craters of the Moon

Michelle Lorah & John Peter

Rudy lectures on Bonneville lake sediments at SLC

Rudy lecturing on glacial geology at Alta

Lecturing on glacial geology, amid snowy outcrops

Alta overthrust project