{"id":256,"date":"2015-02-06T13:54:41","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T18:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/enstopportunities\/?p=256"},"modified":"2015-02-06T15:16:40","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T20:16:40","slug":"wyoming-field-studies-summer-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/enstopportunities\/2015\/02\/06\/wyoming-field-studies-summer-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Wyoming Field Studies &#8211; summer program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"http:\/\/www.honorscollege.pitt.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/wyoming-field-studies\/wyoming-field-studies-book.pdf\">Learning to Read the Earth: Wyoming Field Studies in Ecology and\u00a0Paleontology<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Taught by faculty from the University of Pittsburgh, the\u00a0University of Wyoming, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, and The\u00a0National Aviary. It is open to all majors with no prerequisites.\u00a0 The\u00a0course is headquartered in the Laramie Basin on the Allen L. Cook Spring\u00a0Creek Preserve, a tract of land that is exceedingly rich in dinosaur\u00a0fossils, intact prairie ecology, Native American artifacts spanning\u00a09,000 years, and American history including a section of the original\u00a0grade of the 1869 Transcontinental Railroad.<\/p>\n<p>Students\u00a0earn six credits through 42 days of field study focused in geology,\u00a0paleontology, ecology, and archaeology, dividing their time between\u00a0camping under the stars and lodging together in a residence hall in the\u00a0frontier university town of Laramie. Visit the <span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"http:\/\/www.honorscollege.pitt.edu\/wyoming-field-studies\">program website<\/a><\/span> for additional information.<\/p>\n<p>Or contact Ed McCord, <a href=\"mailto:emccord@pitt.edu\">emccord@pitt.edu<\/a>, 412-624-6886.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learning to Read the Earth: Wyoming Field Studies in Ecology and\u00a0Paleontology Taught by faculty from the University of Pittsburgh, the\u00a0University of Wyoming, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, and The\u00a0National&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/enstopportunities\/2015\/02\/06\/wyoming-field-studies-summer-program\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2234,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[104781,104748,104782],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ecology","category-geography","category-summer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/enstopportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/enstopportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/enstopportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/enstopportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/enstopportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/enstopportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/enstopportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/enstopportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/enstopportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}