University of New Orleans, Summer in the Rockies 2004 Minority Field Trip
The minority geoscience program at the University of New Orleans was founded in 1974 by Dr. Louis Fernandez. The original program was based on a summer field trip for local high school students and the field trip has been run every summer since the program was founded. As a result of this program, the University of New Orleans is the single largest source of African American Geologists in the country (excluding fields of Meteorology and Oceanography). In summer 2004 ten students participated in the field trip and traveled to the Wasatch Range in Utah followed by Yellowstone, Shoshone National Forest, the Stillwater Mine, the Big Horn Basin in Wyoming, the Grand Tetons and fossil hunting in the Morrison and the Green River formations.
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