Summer College Field Course Announcement
Alaska Wildlands Studies
22 June - 9 August 2005
Co-sponsors:
The Wrangell Mountains Center
University of California, Santa Barbara
For further information, contact:
Ben Shaine, veteran faculty member
E-mail: shaine [at] olypen.com
Phone: 360-379-9231
Applications are invited from undergraduates at all universities for
participation in the 23rd year of the Alaska Wildlands Studies course, a
fully accredited college field program that awards 15 quarter units (10
semester units) for an intensive program of natural science study in the
world's most spectacular classroom, Alaska's Wrangell-St. Elias National
Park. Over half of the program is spent in the backcountry, hiking on
the glaciers, tundra, forest, and braided river floodplains surrounding
McCarthy, a small mining-era town at the center of the Park. No
backpacking experience is required, but general physical fitness and an
appetite for adventure are mandatory.
Using an interdisciplinary approach of rigorous natural history
observation and experimental field investigation, students will consider
the interrelated geological, ecological, and social processes which
shape the Wrangell Mountains. In the latter half of the program,
independent research projects allow students, with their faculty
advisors, to focus efforts on a particular subject of interest. Faculty
include Ben Shaine, Ph.D., a 30-year veteran of field programs in the
Wrangells, and Michael Loso, Ph.D., a glacial geologist with over ten
years experience teaching the Alaska Wildlands Studies Program.
Program details, including costs, logistical information, and a more
detailed curriculum description can be downloaded from the Wrangell
Mountains Center website:
http://www.wrangells.org
Registration information can be obtained from:
Wildlands Studies office at UC Santa Barbara
E-mail: wildlands [at] sonic.net
Phone: 707-632-5665
URL: http://www.wildlandsstudies.com