College Consortia & Field Study Experiences

Spend a weekend or a week focusing on science and natural history in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Students and faculty are housed in comfortable quarters, eat in our dining hall and use the National Park as a field classroom.

College Consortia
Let us create a week of in-depth study and field experience specifically for your college groups emphasizing wildlife management, park issues, environmental education, and the diversity of resources in the park. Students have the opportunity to participate in classes, hikes, and trips with students from other colleges, creating a lively exchange of ideas. Program lasts from Monday supper to
Saturday breakfast. Existing consortia include students from University of Georgia, Purdue University, University of Florida, NC State University, Middle Tennessee State University, Pennsylvania State University, Indiana University and many others.
Cost: $280. Call us to organize a consortium for your school.

Field Study Experiences
Give your class a field experience to remember in one of the most biologically diverse locations in the United States. Focus on the natural and cultural history, science and species inventories and resource management of the National Park. Our knowledgeable staff will help you craft the perfect field trip that meets your educational goals and offers your students a learning opportunity unlike any other.

Colleges & Universities that Participate in Tremont Programs

Clemson University

East Carolina State University

Eastern Illinois University

Middle Tennessee State University

Murray State University

North Carolina State University

North West Shoals Community College

Pennsylvania State University

Purdue North Central University

University of Florida

University of Georgia

University of Missouri at Columbia

University of Tennessee

Virginia Commonwealth University

Warren Wilson College

Western Kentucky University

Western Illinois University

Wytheville Community College

 

Colleges & Universities that Participate in Citizen Science at Tremont

Appalachian State University - Dr. Howard Neufeld; He taught at our advance teacher institute and helped establish our ozone garden about four years ago.

Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College - Pete Kennedy, a GIS instructor, was an instructor at our advance teacher institute

Austin Peay State University - Dr. Betsie Rothermel and Dr. Floyd Scott (both are herpetologists).  They are assessing the status of the chytrid fungus in the park, a deadly fungus that kills frogs and may impact salamanders.  We did some fieldwork with them and let them use our science lab to work up some of the critters they found.  They also came as guest instructors when we were doing FrogWatch in Cades Cove with Pi Beta Phi students.

Bowling Green State University - Paula Furey (PhD candidate) - Paula has taught at our teacher institute; we have sent her samples of algae for the ATBI and she has used our science lab to look at algae samples

Clemson University - we are helping a PhD student (Carrie Wells) collect DNA from the Diana Fritillary, a relatively rare butterfly that is now found in Arkansas and the southern Appalachians

College of Charleston - Dr. Brian Scholtens; we send Brian our unidentified moths; he occasionally stops by to look at our collection