IFR’s field schools offer hands-on, experiential learning in a variety of disciplines and locations around the world. Our academically rigorous and culturally immersive programs award up to 8 semester credits to help you fulfill degree requirements and further your career in the field sciences or beyond.
 Open and Upcoming Programs
The following programs are currently accepting applications or will be opening soon!
US-Alaska: Paleontology of the Lost Coast
Overview Alaska’s climate has varied over the millennia from tropical to arctic, creating habitats for a variety of land and sea life. Alaska has a rich fossil record of [...]
US-Alaska: Glacier Change Research Mission
Overview This program fosters an understanding of the evolving landscape of Alaska’s Lost Coast and documents glacial retreat through specialized photography. Students will investigate more than 50 glaciers along [...]
Ireland: Monastic Midlands Winter Survey
Overview This field school is an integral part of the major research project, the Monastic Midlands Project. It takes a holistic landscape scale approach to community based archaeological research, assessing [...]
 Summer 24 Programs
Check out our 2024 field season programs below. Many of these will be offered again in the 2025 season, along with new program options.
Australia: Town Marie Excavation
Overview Help uncover industrial history in Ipswich, southeast Queensland, Australia. This 19th century site has never previously been excavated nor has any similar site been [...]
Belize: Actuncan Excavation
Overview Nestled in the picturesque Mopan River Valley, the archaeological site of Actuncan was home to an ancient Maya community for 2000 years—from 1100 [...]
Bulgaria: Nessebar Underwater Archaeology
Prerequisites This program requires participants to have Open Water Diver Certification (any world-wide recognized training organization) and DAN diving insurance (http://www.daneurope.org/insurance) and [...]
Bulgaria: Pistiros Excavation
Overview The ruins of an ancient site in the heart of Thrace – on the left bank of Maritsa River (ancient Hebros) – were discovered [...]
China: Liulihe Excavation
Overview The Liulihe site in Beijing is a Chinese Bronze Age city dating from about 2,800-3,000 years ago. Remains at the site include rammed-earth [...]
China: Panlongcheng Excavation
Overview The Panlongcheng site is an urban settlement in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River dating to the early Bronze Age (1600-1300BC), and [...]
China: Yangguanzhai Excavation
Overview The Yangguanzhai Neolithic Archaeological Project focuses on one of the largest known prehistoric villages in China, dating to the Middle to Late Yangshao [...]
Colombia: Providence Island Community/Ethnography
Overview The islands of Old Providence and Santa Catalina -located 130 miles of the coast of Nicaragua and around 8.5 square miles in size- [...]
Croatia: Lobor Excavation
Overview Lobor is a sacred archaeological site that has been active since prehistoric times. It played an important role in Late Antiquity when various barbarian [...]
Denmark: Vasagård Excavation
Overview The site of Vasagård is located on the southern side of the island of Bornholm, Denmark. Vasagård is separated by the 100m Læså [...]