Anticipated 2012 Field Camp Costs 

The National Student Exchange Tuition Rate: LSU is a member of the National Student Exchange (NSE) program. Students from other NSE member campuses may be eligible to participate in the LSU Summer Field Camp at either the tuition rate of their home institution or the Louisiana Resident rate at the undergraduate level. Graduate students are ineligible for NSE. Participation in the NSE program is limited based on availability of funds and is evaluated on a case-by-case, year-by-year basis. Please contact the NSE coordinator at your home institution for program specifics and eligibility requirements or check the following links for more information: National Student Exchange Program and LSU’s NSE Website. 

About Camp

LSU maintains a rustic camp facility in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains south of Colorado Springs, Colorado.  The site has been used for field geology courses since 1928.  LSU purchased the camp property in1954 from the Keeton brothers whose father homesteaded the area in the late 1800s.  Ruins of the old homestead still stand in various places on the property.

About Charles Barney

The LSU Geology Field Camp opened in 1928 and serves a vital role within the College of Science and the College of Engineering.  The field camp gives Geology and Geophysics students, as well as Petroleum Engineering students, the opportunity to take their learning experience beyond the classroom; to explore the complex natural structures and mechanisms which form the blueprint for planet earth.  In addition to its priceless quality as a teaching environment, the field camp also serves as a critical recruiting tool for LSU’s science and engineering programs.

Thanks to Charles Barney’s recent gift, the field camp will have a perpetual source of funding for the future.  This return will be used each year by the Charles Barney Geology Field Camp Program to pay for operating expenses, facility improvement and staff salaries for faculty who work at the camp.
Barney is a former LSU football player who played on some of LSU’s most successful teams of the 1940’s.  He is also a United States Navy veteran of World War II’s Pacific Theatre.  

Following the war, Barney made a mark in the petroleum industry, serving as a key figure in the Mobil and Superior Oil corporations for several decades.   Barney now runs his own business based in Houston, Mark I Enterprises, which invests in oil and gas as well as real estate.

Contact Information

Dr. Dan Kelley
Director
GEOL 3666 Instructor
Department of Geology & Geophysics
Louisiana State University
E235 Howe-Russell
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
225-578-2337
fieldcamp@lsu.edu

Stephanie Welch
Freshman Camp Instructor
Southeastern Louisiana University
Stephanie.welch@selu.edu

Heather Lee
Administrative Program Specialist
Department of Geology & Geophysics
E235 Howe-Russell
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
225-578-2946
heather@lsu.edu