Field Trip Info
Packing Lists
The Geology Department provides all group supplies for cooking, food, rock hammers, reflective vests, etc. If there is required personal gear you do not have, make sure to let your professor or the paraprof know so we can facilitate departmental rentals through the Outdoor Education - Ahlberg Gear House.
Open the Student Packing Lists PDF (v.2024-04) to see suggestions for:
- Tent Camping
- CC Baca Grande Campus
- CC Gilmore Stabler Cabin
- CC Ahlberg Gear House rentals
- Travel Health Kit
Field Logistics
Some additional tools to help you plan for going into the field.- Outdoor Education Ahlberg Gear House
- Click here for the URL: coloradocollege.edu/offices/outdooreducation/
- Camping 101
- Click here for the PDF: in-progress
- Personal Hygiene in the Field
- Click here for the PDF: in-progress
- Field Safety and Logistics
- International Travel Logistics
LNT Principles
As geological and Earth scientists, we are stewards of the outdoors. We must protect the natural world and environments that our science, careers, and passions rely on by being conscious of the impacts our actions have on outcrops, plants, animals, other people, and even entire ecosystems. Following the Leave No Trace (LNT) Seven Principles, summarized below, will help us minimize those impacts, whether outdoors for class, research, and recreational activities. These Principles can be applied anywhere and at any time.
- Plan Ahead and Prepare
- Travel and Camp on Durable Surfaces
- Dispose of Waste Properly
- Leave What You Find
- Minimize Campfire Impacts
- Respect Wildlife
- Be Considerate of Others
* Dr. Elizabeth Erickson, the Department of Geology Technical Director, has been a certified Leave No Trace Trainer since 2020. *
Contact Us
Department of Geology
Colorado College
14 E. Cache La Poudre
Colorado Springs, CO 80903
Phone: 719-389-6621
FAX: 719-389-6910
geology@coloradocollege.edu
Geology News
Geology Students Intern at the American Museum of Natural History!
Elizabeth Spradlin ’27, Corra Lewis ’27, and Makena R. Hatch ’26 stand in the Theodore Roosevelt Rotunda.
Makena R. Hatch ’26, Elizabeth Spradlin ’27, Corra Lewis ’27, and Mac Schwartz ’27 were participants in the Noblett-Witter Family Internship Program. These four CC students spent their summer in the heart of New York City, interning at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), where they experienced a hands-on, professional geology environment.
Read the full story by Julia Fennell on The Peak.
GeoMAP Antarctica, the initial comprehensive digital database that consolidates all existing geological information of Antarctica
Christine Siddoway and her colleagues developed a ground-breaking geospatial resource for Antarctic Research!
Christine Siddoway has long worked on the bedrock geology of Antarctica, involving CC Geology majors and collaborating with international colleagues. Lately, this work culminated in the publication of Antarctic GeoMAP in Nature Data Science. The groundbreaking geospatial resource is the first interactive, queriable, online GIS for the Antarctic continent. GeoMAP serves geologists, glaciologists, climate scientists, and biologists whose work examines the interrelationships between the ice sheet and the bedrock. More than 20 CC geology majors participated in the decade of work leading up to the GeoMap release. Four CC alums are co-authors, with Sam Elkind ’16 having a leading role. Coauthors Elkind and Lexie Millikin ’17 had Witter Family Fund internships that were important to the success of the international collaboration on the Antarctic dataset.
Tectonic Triumph: Tigers’ keeper Lucas Bush won the National Collegiate Club Socer Championship Tournament MVP, with highlights including the “incredible save” on a penalty kick versus UVA.”