Field Paleontology is a two-week experience that is designed to introduce students and interested persons to the procedures of preserving and documenting fossil discoveries. You may participate for two weeks as a college course for 2 semester credits or just for the educational experience with no college credit. The field sessions are taught at various times of the summer months of June, July, and August. Hotel accommodations can be obtained for many of the sessions or camping is another alternative. Camping is usually done at commercial campgrounds and food is purchased nearby.
Sessions are two weeks long and begin with meeting in Rapid City unless other arrangements are made.
Your instructor will designate the time and place to meet. The Museum provides transportation to the research area and base camp. The Museum accepts payment for the experience by VISA or MasterCard, money order, cashier's check or personal check. Fossil Lake, Oregon - fossil mammals, fish and birds from the late Pleistocene. In North Dakota for tracking Theropod dinosaur diversity.