This participation can be as simple as one hour for being a basic field assistant to up to six hours for major involvement in a project, including significant work after return to the home institution. This variable credit approach allows maximum flexibility for the student. 4.The island is relatively remote, and has outstanding carbonate sections and living reefs with lagoons. Fossil reefs, living reefs, eolianites, paleosols, cave and karst features, geochronology, stratigraphy, depositional environments, archeology, etc. are all stressed during the program. 5.The field station is a much-modernized former U.S. Navy submarine tracking station.
Meals are cafeteria-style in the former mess hall and are simple and basic fare.
Students do not do any cooking or clean-up, and are responsible only for keeping their own spaces tidy. 6.The first few days of the trip the students are taken on a series of field trips around the island to see the major features of San Salvador, including the stratigraphic column. Many evenings will have a slide show on geology or marine biology. After the group field trips have been run, then the group will begin to subdivide the work on various projects, and the schedule becomes less rigid. 7.The student is responsible for filling out student contract and health forms and returning them to Dr. Mylroie.