Examples of Virtual Field Trips, Courses and Studies

Last updated 2006.2.26.  KEF

The Walter Geological Library, U Texas at Austin,Virtual and On-line Geologic Field Trip Guides, http://www.lib.utexas.edu/geo/onlineguides.html

Virtual Montana, Virtual Fieldtrips, http://www.virtualmontana.org/virtualmontana/virtual_fieldtrips2.htm

Geology of Britain, http://www.soton.ac.uk/~imw/Geology-Britain.htm

Geology of the Wessex Coast, Southern England, http://www.soton.ac.uk/~imw/index.htm

Virtual Field Courses, U Leicester, UK, http://www.geog.le.ac.uk/vfc/education/vips.html

Africa and Middle East

• Color Tour of Egypt: http://academic.memphis.edu/egypt/egypt.html

• Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: http://ce.eng.usf.edu/pharos/wonders/

• The Theban Mapping Project http://www.thebanmappingproject.com/
  

Asia

• China

  • China, Virtual Tours; http://www.chinavista.com/travel/virtualtours.html

  • The Forbidden City: http://www.chinavista.com/beijing/gugong/!start.html

  • Tour of Guilin: http://www.chinavista.com/travel/guilin/main.html

• Belize, The Virtual Guide

• Photo-Journey Through a Costa Rican Rainforest

Europe

• • Virtual Tour of London

  • Historic York

  • Skipton Castle Virtual Tour

  • Explore London 

North America

• Canada

  • Virtual Tour of Prince Edward Island

  • Welcome to Canada’s Virtual North

• United States

  Arizona

  • Grand Canyon Explorer

  California

  •  Point Reyes, CA (Barbara Holzman, San Francisco State University)

  • The San Andreas Fault and the San Francisco Bay Area
  • San Francisco Bay Area

  Colorado

  • Boulder Creek Virtual Field Study Version One ( A. David Hill and Michael Solem, University of Colorado - Boulder) For those located near enough to take actual field study)

  • Boulder Creek Virtual Field Study Version Two ( A. David Hill and Michael Solem, University of Colorado - Boulder)  For those who cannot conduct the actual field study.

  • Flood Hazards of Manitou Springs, CO (Bradford J. Simpson and Michael Solem, University of Colorado - Boulder)

  • Indian Peaks, Colorado Front Range, USA (Michael Ritter, University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point)

  Maine

  • Glacial Geology of Eastern Maine

  Tennessee

  • Virtual Clinch River (ORNL Clinch River Restoration Program)

  Texas

  • Texas Hill Country   (Texas A&M Dept. of Geology)

  Wisconsin

  • Tomorrow River (UW-SP student project)

  Wyoming

South America

• Virtual Trip to Brazil