Course Schedule for 2027
Course Activities in Italy
June 4 (travel/arrival): Participants join us at the Osservatorio Geologico di Coldigioco (OGC; link). Travelers will be collected from the nearest train station (Castelplanio), which is accessible via trains from Rome or Ancona.
June 5-June 17: The group will be based at OGC for field work in central Italy, including Acquasanta thermal springs, Grotte Frasassi, field exercises studying platform carbonates and anoxic oceans of the past. Excursions will also include the Cretaceous-Tertary boundary at Gubbio.
June 18 (travel): Group travels together to State College, PA USA
Course Activities in the US
June 19 - July 7 the course is based on the campus of Penn State University, in State College PA
June 21-23: Green Lake, in Fayetteville, NY
June 24-27: Lab rotations
June 29: Symposium with invited speakers
June 30-July 3: Lab rotations
July 4: Independence Day
July 5-6: Data analytics/modeling & group projects
July 7: Research presentations by student groups; clean up; celebratory dinner
July 8 (travel): Departures from State College, PA
Green Lake, New York
Penn State University
Photo credits: J. Macalady (banner and OGC), M. Ingalls (Green Lake), Penn State (bottom)