Applications submitted for the 2024 REU Program are being reviewed!

THE KECK GEOLOGY CONSORTIUM

Advancing Diversity in the Geosciences

Investigate the earth
Expand knowledge and skills
Explore your future

THE KECK GEOLOGY CONSORTIUM

Advancing Diversity in the Geosciences

Investigate the earth
Expand knowledge and skills
Explore your future

THE KECK GEOLOGY CONSORTIUM

Advancing Diversity in the Geosciences

Investigate the earth
Expand knowledge and skills
Explore your future

THE KECK GEOLOGY CONSORTIUM

Advancing Diversity in the Geosciences

Investigate the earth
Expand knowledge and skills
Explore your future

THE KECK GEOLOGY CONSORTIUM

Advancing Diversity in the Geosciences

Investigate the earth
Expand knowledge and skills
Explore your future

THE KECK GEOLOGY CONSORTIUM

Advancing Diversity in the Geosciences

Investigate the earth
Expand knowledge and skills
Explore your future

THE KECK GEOLOGY CONSORTIUM

Advancing Diversity in the Geosciences

Investigate the earth
Expand knowledge and skills
Explore your future

THE KECK GEOLOGY CONSORTIUM

Advancing Diversity in the Geosciences

Investigate the earth
Expand knowledge and skills
Explore your future

THE KECK GEOLOGY CONSORTIUM

Advancing Diversity in the Geosciences

Investigate the earth
Expand knowledge and skills
Explore your future

Welcome to the Keck Geology Consortium

The Keck Geology Consortium consists of thirteen liberal arts colleges focused on enriching undergraduate education through the development of high-quality research experiences. Each summer, with support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Consortium offers a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program to engage undergraduate students in four- to five-week field and laboratory research projects in the earth sciences. Advanced students continue their summer research projects during the following academic year using cutting-edge laboratory techniques. All students are encouraged to participate in a professional conference. The Keck Geology Consortium is currently administered through Macalester College.

Funding for this REU site is provided by the National Science Foundation’s Division of Earth Sciences, located in Alexandria, VA, to the Keck Geology Consortium (NSF-REU Award No. 1659322 and 2050697).

Important Info

2024 Keck Projects Flyer
Appl. for 2024 Programs - Closed

 

15 Feb:  Applications due

15 Mar:  Acceptance letters sent

 

Keck Program Blog

The goals of this blog are (1) to raise the visibility of Keck Geology Consortium programs, (2) to provide Keck research projects with a venue for communicating the process and results of science, and (3) to foster student learning about communicating science to the general public.  We invite contributions to the blog from project students, faculty and staff.  Submissions will undergo brief review before posting.

Slots, Slots and more Slots

Slots, Slots and more Slots

This morning, our fieldwork began as usual, but quickly became something more magical. After picking up where we left off yesterday, our group quickly began to experience what others come from all around the world to see: true slot canyons.

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Glacier National Park Project Fall Update

Glacier National Park Project Fall Update

We had an extraordinary research summer – a week getting to know each other and the project, two weeks in the field, and another two weeks in the lab conducting analyses. We are excited to present our results at GSA in November!

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Alaska Project Fall Update

Alaska Project Fall Update

Our field effort included collecting over 70 samples from the Valdez and Orca Groups of the Chugach-Prince William terrane (CPW) in southern Alaska.

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Utah Project Fall Update

Utah Project Fall Update

Ben Surpless and four students used structural field mapping and video captured by a quad-copter drone to investigate rock deformation within a major normal fault transfer zone.

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