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St. Joseph Street, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA, umit.yildiz@ sdsmt.edu; [email protected]; [email protected] ABSTRACT and the Board of Regents; (iii) logistics, trans- including the subfields of sedimentology, The undergraduate geoscience experience portation, accommodation, and dining ser- stratigraphy, mineralogy, structural geology, typically culminates in a field-based capstone vices require advanced levels of consideration and metamorphic and igneous petrology. course that utilizes outcrop mapping, geologic to adequately address COVID-19–related risk Some specialized field camps provide more observation, and interpretation across multi- and uncertainty; (iv) online teaching and opportunities for students to develop their ple disciplines to provide the graduating geol- exercises can address geological field meth- interests in fields such as volcanology, geo- ogist with fundamental field-mapping skills. ods, but they cannot adequately assess a stu- physics (Bank and Rotzien, 2007), structure However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, dent’s ability to map geology in the field; (v) and thrust-belt tectonics, sedimentary basin many of the field-based geoscience programs field-mapping exercises need to be adjusted to analysis and applied petroleum geoscience have been temporarily suspended or shifted to reduce the number of people in one field area (Anderson et al., 1999; Rotzien et al., 2020, an online format. To address the demand for and lower their interaction to support social- and references therein), or environmental graduating seniors in the broad field of geo- distancing guidelines from relevant govern- hazard mitigation. Whichever type of field science, the South Dakota School of Mines ment and health authorities; and (vi) plans camp a student chooses to complete, it is and Technology developed an innovative need to be put into place for overall health and intended to be one of the highlights of their hybrid course consisting of two parts: (i) a safety as well as contingency plans in the undergraduate geoscience learning experi- 14-day online course on geological field event of an outbreak before and during the ence. However, during the COVID-19 pan- methods, followed by (ii) a 15-day in-person field camp. We hope that this experience of demic, many field camps were canceled, geologic mapping course based out of Rapid delivering a geology field camp during the postponed, or fully converted to an online City, South Dakota, USA. Analysis of this COVID-19 pandemic is useful in providing format. These cancellations and modifica- new hybrid course provides a benchmark on a benchmark
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