Events
The Geological Society of Maine organizes three events each year - a spring meeting, a summer field trip, and a fall meeting. Visit the News page for information on the upcoming meeting. When meeting registration is open you can sign up on our Upcoming Events page.
Spring Meetings
The spring meeting program consists of student research oral and poster presentations, with students from Maine colleges, universities, and high schools participating. Cash awards from the Walter Anderson Fund are given to the best oral and best poster presentation, chosen by a panel of geologists.
Spring Meeting Rotation: Spring meetings are traditionally hosted by geology or earth science departments at Maine colleges and universities. The established rotation, which is subject to change is the order shown below.
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Bates College, Lewiston
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University of Maine at Presque Isle
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University of Maine at Farmington
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Bowdoin College, Brunswick
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Colby College, Waterville
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University of Maine, Orono
Year | Title | Dates | Location | Convenors |
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2026 | Student Showcase | 4/3/2026 | Bates College | Beverly Johnson |
2025 | Student Showcase | 4/11/2025 | Colby College | Bess Koffman and Evan Dethier |
2024 | Student Showcase | 4/12/2024 | Bowdoin College | Emily Peterman |
2023 | Student Showcase | 3/31/2023 | University of Maine at Orono | Marty Yates |
2022 | Student Showcase | 4/15/2022 | Online | Sarah Hall |
2021 | Student Showcase | 4/9/2021 | Online | Sarah Hall |
2020 | Student Showcase | 4/3/2020 (Cancelled) | University of Maine at Farmington | Doug Reusch |
2018 | Student Showcase | 4/6/2018 | Unity College | Kevin Spigel |
2017 | Student Showcase | 4/7/2017 | Bates College | Beverly Johnson |
2016 | Student Showcase | 4/1/2016 | University of Maine at Orono | |
2015 | Student Showcase | 4/10/2015 | Colby College | Bob Nelson |
2014 | Student Showcase | 4/4/2014 | Bowdoin College | |
2019 | Student Showcase | 4/5/2019 | University of Maine at Presque Isle | Chunzeng Wang, David Putnam, Kevin McCartney |
Summer Field Trips
The summer field trip program usually includes a weekend itinerary of field visits to geologic localities in a region that are interesting from a bedrock, surficial, hydrogeologic, and/or environmental geology perspective. A banquet or cookout is held Saturday evening.
Year | Title | Dates | Location | Convenors |
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2026 | Orogenic, glacial, and coastal geology of Downeast Maine | July 25-26 | Downeast Maine | Andrew Collins, Rich Campbell |
2025 | Geology, Hydrogeology, and Hydrology of Maine's Capital Region | July 12-13 | Central Maine | Andrew Collins |
2024 | Geology of Islesboro and Eastern Penobscot Bay | July 27-28 | Penobscot Bay | Fred Beck, Rich Campbell, Marlon Jean, Doug Reusch, Taury Smith, Justin Strauss, Luis Torres |
2023 | Geology of the Cambro-Ordovician Miramichi Terrane and adjacent Silurian Turbidites | July 22-23 | Greenfield-Bangor | Allan Ludman, Stephen Pollock |
2019 | Munsungun Anticlinorium region | North Maine Woods | Chunzeng Wang, David Putnam, Steve Pollock | |
2018 | Cape Neddick to Spring Point - In Arthur's Footsteps | Southern Maine | Henry Berry | |
2017 | Cape Neddick to Spring Point - In Arthur's Footsteps | August 5-6 | Southern Maine | Henry Berry |
2016 | Bedrock and glacial geology in the greater BelfastBrooks area, south-central Maine | July 16-17 | Midcoast (Belfast-Brooks) | Woody Thompson, Dave West, Roger Hooke, Steve Pollock |
2015 | Isle au Haut | July 25-26 | Gulf of Maine | Bob Gerber, Marshall Chapman |
2014 | Bethel, Maine and vicinity | July 19-20 | Western Maine and White Mountains | Dyk Eusden, Woody Thompson |
Photos of Summer 2025 Field Trips
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Fall Meetings
The fall meeting program usually includes a symposium with speakers invited from the geologic consulting and regulatory communities.
Year | Title | Dates | Location | Convenors |
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2025 | Geophysical Tools and Their Applications in Maine | 11/7/2025 | Colby College | |
2024 | GSM's 50th Anniversary | 11/8/2024 | Augusta Civic Center | |
2023 | PFAS in Maine | 11/17/2023 | Augusta Civic Center | |
2022 | Lithium & Critical Mineral Resources in Maine | 11/10/2022 | Augusta Civic Center | |
2020 | Community Updates | 12/4/2020 | Augusta Civic Center | Sarah Hall |
2017 | 11/17/2017 | Bob Marvinney, Henry Berry | ||
2016 | 11/18/2016 | |||
2014 | 11/6/2014 | Augusta Civic Center | ||
2018 | Geoscience Education in Maine | 11/9/2018 | Augusta Civic Center | Sarah Hall |
2019 | Climate Change and Adaptation Planning in Maine | 11/8/2019 | Augusta Civic Center | Sarah Hall |