Course Description
Course Description: This course will introduce participants to the bedrock geology of northern Vermont. Two day-long field trips will visit areas where key aspects of the area’s geology can be observed and understood. Along a generally west to east transect, we will see good exposures of some of the major rocks underlying both the Champlain Valley and the Green Mountains. We will learn how to identify these different rocks and see how different aspects of our geologic history can be interpreted from rocks like these. Some of the field stops will also provide insight into the myriad of processes that have been eroding the landscape since the mountains formed.
Audience: Naturalists and Educators with a Bachelor’s Degree
Session Information
Instructors
Sean Beckett, M.S.
he/him
Sean Beckett, M.S.
Years ago in Costa Rica, a teenage Sean was awoken by his NBNC trip leader and shuffled into a humming jungle to experience his first dawn chorus of tropical songbirds. He went on to study Biology and Environmental Studies at Vassar College, and received his M.S. from UVM’s Field Naturalist and Ecological Planning Program. Sean has worked extensively as a wildlife ecologist, researching Atlantic Puffins in Maine, Saw-whet Owls in New York, raptors in Idaho, Pygmy-Owls in Mexico, and Clark’s Nutcrackers in Wyoming. Sean joined the NBNC staff in 2017 after years of leading world-class wildlife safaris across North America, taking inquisitive travelers to the threshold of wolf dens, toe-to-toe with polar bears, and to the heart of Utah’s Canyonlands and deserts.