Summer Field Studies Series

Summer field courses are frequently transformative for students in disciplines that involve fieldwork, often leaving lasting impressions and memories. To make these field courses more accessible, Title III STEM LTS is providing support for multiple field courses through scholarships, new equipment, technology upgrades, and additional resources.

For the summer of 2024, Title III STEM LTS was proud to support Field Archeology School with the Anthropology Program, Geology Field Camp with the Geology Program, and Arachnida of the Trans-Pecos Summer Course with the Biology Program. Photos for Arachnida of the Trans-Pecos coming soon!

This intensive six-week course provides hands-on introduction to archaeological field and laboratory techniques, including pedestrian survey, site recording, instrument mapping (GPS, EDM), site testing, controlled excavation, rock art recording, photography, 3D modeling, experimental studies, sample processing, and artifact curation.

The Biology Arachnids of the Trans Pecos course is a 6 week summer class that focuses on learning the taxonomy and natural history of the various spiders, scorpions, mites and kin, as well as the centipedes and millipedes of the region.  The lab portion of the class focuses on a taxonomic scavenger hunt style of collection building, where students strive to find 40 different families of arachnids.  To aid in this collection building, the class traveled around the Alpine area, as well as visiting Marathon, Sanderson, Balmorhea, and Terlingua Ranch.