This page lists field courses in the biological sciences. These require a fee and are typically eligible for college credit, though for some it may be via Independent Study arranged at your home institution.
Summer 2025
3/26 – Two-Week Wildlife Techniques Field Course – GA
The Southeastern Section of The Wildlife Society, in collaboration with Vermont State University, will be hosting a 2-week field course on Wildlife and Forestry Field Techniques.
The course will be taught June 6–20, 2025 and hosted by the Jones Center at Ichauway (http://www.jonesctr.org/) in Newton, Georgia. The Jones Center is a 29,000-acre working forest managed for longleaf pine, northern bobwhite, and numerous plant and animal species native to the southern United States. The purpose of this course is to offer field experience that covers numerous topics, including hands-on learning in capture, handling, and tracking wildlife (e.g., birds, small mammals, bats, meso-mammals, amphibians, reptiles), species identification, assessing wildlife-habitat relationships, and silviculture. Additionally, we plan to offer exposure to firearms, equipment operation, plant ID, and prescribed fire. All are important skills for any wildlife biologist, manager, or natural resource specialist.
The course is open to undergraduate and graduate students from any college or university, or recent (< 3 years) graduates who have already completed a degree and are looking to gain field skills. Students should be majoring in a natural resource program and have completed at least 8 credit hours of their core curriculum (e.g., natural resources, biology, wildlife, ecology, forestry). This course will be filled on a first-come first-served basis up to a maximum of 20 students.
The cost is $1,500 and will include instruction, food, housing, material and equipment, on-site transportation, and 3 hours of college credit that may qualify as elective credits in a student’s program of study.
For more information on the field course, including how to apply, please contact Dr. Daniel Greene, President of the Southeastern Section of The Wildlife Society, at dgreene.tws@gmail.com.
Center for Wildlife Studies Courses
Look for course available for academic credit; you will want to set it up as an independent study through your home institution. https://www.centerforwildlifestudies.org/courses
More Organizations that run Field Courses
Domestic
- Shoals Marine Laboratory (Appledore Island, Maine), Cornell University & UNH
- Mountain Lake Biological Station, University of Virginia
- Highlands Biological Station, University of North Carolina
- Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University Marine Lab
- Iowa Lakeside Laboratory, University of Iowa
- University of Notre Dame Research Center (UNDERC), Michigan/Montana
- Kellogg Biological Station (KBS), Michigan State University
- University of Michigan Biological Station
- Boulder Mountain Research Station, University of Colorado
- Ecosystem Field Studies, Colorado (accr. by UMontana)
- Wild Rockies Field Institute
- Flathead Lake Biological Station, University of Montana
- Oregon Institute of Marine Biology
- Friday Harbor Laboratories, University of Washington
- Inside Passage Field Studies, Alaska
- Semester by the Bay, Alaska
International
- The GREEN Program
- Ecosystem Field Studies, Mexican Caribbean (accr. by UMontana)
- Seamester, Caribbean, Atlantic & Pacific voyages (accr. by Univ of South Florida)
- Institute for Tropical Ecology and Conservation (ITEC)
- Organization for Tropical Studies, Costa Rica & South Africa
- DANTA Association for Conservation of Tropics – Costa Rica
- Field Projects International
- Institute for Field Research
- Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences