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7 June 2025, Homeward bound, Dalhart, Texas
Long time friend of field camp, USC alum, and Cañon City (Colorado) doctor Marc Sindler waxes poetic about the magnificent geology of the...
David Barbeau
Jun 73 min read


29 May 2025 Harpole Mesa, La Sal Mountains, Utah
All is well at the SEOE Geology Field Camp of the McCausland College of Arts & Sciences of the University of South Carolina. We are past...
David Barbeau
May 294 min read


20 May 2025, Benton Range, California
All is well at the SEOE Geology Field Camp. Today only marks our sixth day of field camp, yet it feels like we have already accomplished...
David Barbeau
May 205 min read


Elmwood Park, Columbia, South Carolina, 16 June 2024
All is well at the conclusion of the 2024 iteration of USC Geology Field Camp. As seems to be common each year, pressing logistical,...
David Barbeau
Jun 16, 20248 min read


Salt Valley, Utah, 20 May 2024
All is well. We have much progress and many activities to report since our arrival here in the Moab area a week ago. After moving and...
David Barbeau
May 20, 20243 min read
12 May 2024, Fruita Canyon, Colorado
12 May 2024, Saddlehorn Campground, Fruita, Colorado All is well at the USC Geology Field Camp. Following a one-day on-campus hydrology...
David Barbeau
May 12, 20242 min read


And we are off!
Thanks to lots of hard work from our students, field camp staff and SEOE support staff, Field Camp 2024 is headed west. We have just...
David Barbeau
May 7, 20241 min read


Give4Garnet 2024 is on! Only a few hours left.
Hi All! As we here at Field Camp Central are gearing up for our next round of adventures in the arid elevated West, this is a friendly...
David Barbeau
Mar 21, 20241 min read


29 May 2023, Gunnison Plateau, Utah
All is well at SEOE Geology Field Camp. After five days in the wilderness of the Henry Mountains, we are leaving the Colorado Plateau and...
David Barbeau
May 29, 20232 min read
24 May 2023, Green River, Utah
All is well at SEOE Geology Field Camp. Having completed three map projects in the greater Moab area, we are on I-70 west headed through...
David Barbeau
May 24, 20231 min read


Dispatch from Salt Valley, Utah
20 May 2023 All is well at SEOE Geology Field Camp. The start of camp is always hectic, hence the predictable delay in my first dispatch...
David Barbeau
May 20, 20234 min read


Almost Go Time!
The "Tentative" Plan Hi Field Campers! I hope you are well and enjoying a bit of down time after the end of the semester. I am getting...
SEOE Lab Manager
May 9, 20234 min read
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