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Rainbow at Deep Portage during hydrocamp 2006.

Field Program and Facilities

The 3-week field course will take place in two modules. The first week will be spent at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities Campus. Introductory lectures and labs will prepare students for field work. The remaining 2 weeks of the course will be held at the Deep Portage Conservation Reserve in northern Minnesota.

Field exercises will be conducted at our heavily-instrumented Geology and Geophysics Department hydrogeology field camp site that is within the larger and also heavily-instrumented Shingobee Headwaters Aquatic Ecosystems Project (SHAEP) site. The IRI site has been operated by the U.S. Geological Survey for over two decades and includes over 100 observation wells, along with climatological stations, and stream and lake gauge stations over an eight lake watershed. After returning from the field, students will be expected to complete written reports each evening.

Click here to view a previous Hydrocamp schedule which illustrates the topics that are typically planned each year. This schedule is preliminary and may be rearranged to fit changing conditions.