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Course Schedule for 2026
Course Activities in Italy
June 6 (travel): 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 6-June 18: 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 19: Presentations, packing, lab and OGC dorm clean up, and final evening gathering at OGC
June 20 (travel): Group travels together to State College, PA USA
Course Activities in the US
June 21 - July 10 the course is based on the campus of Penn State University, in State College PA
June 21-25: Lab rotations
June 26-28: Green Lake, in Fayetteville, NY
June 29-July 3: Lab rotations
July 4: Independence Day
July 6 (tentative): Symposium with invited speakers
July 5-8: Data analytics/modeling & group projects
July 9: Research presentations by student groups; clean up; celebratory dinner
July 10 (travel): Departures from State College, PA
Osservatorio Geologico di Coldigioco (OGC)
Osservatorio Geologico di Coldigioco (OGC)
Green Lake, New York
Penn State University
Photo credits: J. Macalady (banner and OGC), M. Ingalls (Green Lake), Penn State (bottom)
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