Our Students in Action!
Shayda Zahrai – Dissolving minerals in the laboratory to determine how long Mars was wet.
Advisor: Dr. Megan Elwood-Madden
Bartell Field Camp
The new OU Bartell Field Camp is located on the northeastern edge of the Wet Mountains and overlooks the Cañon City Embayment, a structural reentrant in the Colorado Front Range. Snow‐covered Pikes Peak is visible to the north and the Great Plains to the east. The area is an ideal geological field laboratory – the Phanerozoic section and faults associated with the mountain front are beautifully exposed and available for study. Combined with the near‐perfect weather and closeness to a variety of outdoor activities and metropolitan Denver, it’s no wonder OU students have been coming here since 1950!
The OU geology field camp is located about five miles outside of Cañon City, Colorado and about one hour from Colorado Springs and its major airport. Transportation to camp from Norman is provided, although most students prefer to drive their personal cars. Transportation to camp from the Colorado Springs airport will be provided for students preferring to fly.
The new OU camp has been under construction since 2010 and will be finished by May 2011. It consists of a log dining hall/kitchen/office, study hall, six 4‐student and four 6‐student cabins, two bathhouses, as well as faculty/staff cabins.