Schramm Course in Economic Geology
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Geology of the South Sydney Basin, New South Wales, AustraliaTwenty students and faculty examined outcrops of rocks deposited in the Sydney basin that are exposed in coastal New South Wales. After successfully defending their lunches from aggressive kangaroos, the participants moved north to Heron Island to examine a modern carbonate reef environment on the southern end of the Great Barrier Reef. (see more pictures) |
Students in UNL Geosciences pay only nominal amounts for the Alumni Advisory Board-subsidized Schramm Course in Economic Geology. The alumni provide support for instruction related to the "business of Geology", allowing us to bring in visiting instructors and to provide field trips that we could not otherwise offer. The Schramm Course is offered as a senior/graduate level course each spring semester. The course content varies each year, so students may take the course as many times as they wish for credit.
The Schramm Course starts out as any normal college-level geology course, with classes held each week, exams, and research projects. The course is enhanced by visiting experts who offer lectures or short courses in their area of expertise.
The ending is not your typical college course, as students take an almost-all-expenses-paid trip to an area that best exemplifies the course content for that semester.
Since its inception, students have travelled to the Bahamas, the Yucatan, the Book Cliffs of Utah, and, most recently, eastern Australia. Prior trips have gone to:
- Sequence Stratigraphy in the Book Cliffs
- Structural Geology of the Jackson, WY Region
- Modern Carbonate Environments in the Turks and Caicos Islands, British West Indies
- Sequence Stratigraphy of the Ferron Formation, Central UT
- Modern River Systems of the Texas Gulf Coast
- Floatplane Overflight of the Mississippi Delta System
- Geology of the Monterey Formation in Coastal California
- Deep water clastic sedimentary rocks of Northern California
- Geology of the Atchafalya Delta, Lousiana
The Department covers transportation and lodging costs for registered students. Students pay only for food and incidentals.
Past Schramm Courses
- 2007: Bahamas
- 2006: Nova Scotia
- 2005: Alberta
- 2004: Eastern Australia
Visiting Instructors for Past Schramm Course Offerings
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| Dr. Kirt Campion | ExxonMobil Upstream Research, Houston TX | |
| Dr. Jeffrey Dravis | Dravis Interests, Houston TX | |
| Dr. Paul Enos | Haas Distinguished Professor, University of Kansas | |
| Mr. Ward Abbott | Shell Petroleum (ret.) | |
| Dr. Gregor Eberli | Rosenstiel School, University of Miami, Miami FL | |
| Dr. Emily Stoudt | ChevronTexaco (ret.) University of Texas-Permian Basin | |
| Dr. Paul Weimer | Bruce Benson Chair in Petroleum Geology, University of Colorado | |
| Dr. Roger Slatt | Director, School of Geology and Geophysics, University of Oklahoma | |
| Dr. William Galloway | Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas | |
| Dr. Eugene Rankey | Rosenstiel School, University of Miami, Miami FL | |
| Dr. Chris Christensen | Saudi Aramco (ret.) | |
| Dr. Brian Glenister | Amoco (ret.) University of Iowa | |
| Dr. Neil Hurley | Charles Boettcher Chair in Petroleum Geology, Colorado School of Mines | |
| Dr. John Bridge | Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY | |
| Dr. Lou Bartek | University of North Carolina | |
| Mr. Mark Holtz | Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas | |
| Dr. Raymond Sullivan | San Francisco State University | |
| Dr. John Schalles | Creighton University | |
| Dr. James D. Lowell | Colexcon, Denver, CO |
