Camp Branson Improvement Fund
Every summer since 1911 (with the sole exception of 2020), the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Missouri, Columbia has run our geology field camp at the site of the Branson Field Laboratory in the Wind River Range near Lander, Wyoming. In 2014, the field camp program was awarded the GSA/ExxonMobil Field Camp Excellence Award in recognition of safety awareness, diversity and technical excellence. This award-wining program plays a central role in delivering a unique field experience to geology students not only from our program, but for students from schools across the U.S. During this 6-week program students are able to experience concepts learning from coursework and apply them in practice across a broad array of fields from geologic mapping and structural analysis, to sedimentary facies analysis, surface and groundwater hydrogeology, and shallow reflection and refraction seismology.
Donations to the Camp Branson Improvement Fund will assist in providing support for the benefit of instruction at the MU geology field camp including stipends, travel expenses, faculty support, scholarship awards, supplies, instructional materials, and more. With your support we will continue our endeavor to deliver a fieldwork component to our curriculum that will provide students with the transferable skills and real-world applications they need for a career in the geosciences.
