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Yale Geology Students Visit New Zealand’s Natural Sights
Friday, 26 December 2008
Twenty geology graduate students and three academic staff from prestigious Yale University based in New Haven, Connecticut in America will be shown around New Zealand by Waikato University staff over the New Year break.
(via University of Waikato) Waikato University's Dr Hendy, who organised the itinerary, said the university was pleased to be able to share New Zealand's geological features with the American visitors. "We have long felt that New Zealand has a wonderful concentration of exciting natural features which ought to be used for teaching students in the natural sciences," he said.
The "Yale Trail" field trip will be similar to a field trip contained in a new course being launched by Waikato University in 2009. It's aimed at students from US universities who are encouraged and sometimes required to take a semester or even a year of "study abroad". About 40 students from the University of Michigan are likely to be the first candidates on the Field Experience course in 2009.
Dr Hendy said the upcoming trip would show the Yale students and staff many of New Zealand's interesting sites, from the volcanic cones of Auckland city to the Otago Schist Belt. In between they will walk the Tongariro Crossing, see the Waitomo Caves and visit the Hauraki goldfields. Other stops include Kaikoura, Miranda, the Huntly coal fields, the West Coast and Hawke's Bay.
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