News and Announcements

<p>The 2015 GSM field trip will be held July 25-26 at Isle au Haut.  Leaders will be Dr. Marshall Chapman of Morehead State University, Morehead, Kentucky, and Bob Gerber, CG, engineering and geologic consultant and summer resident of Isle au Haut.  The coastal setting and high tourist season mean we have to plan ahead, and we need [&hellip;]</p>

<p>“Iapetan Crossing: A Travelling Geology Course from Maine to Quebec” will be offered through the Eagle Hill Institute this summer, 7/26-8/1. It is patterned after Hank Williams’ legendary trans-Newfoundland trip, and has been run in various forms around a dozen times since 1992. Please see link for details. Questions may be addressed to Marilyn Mayer, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Colby College, Waterville, Maine Friday, April 10, 2015 Lovejoy Building  Map Agenda 1:00 pm Student Presentations  Poster Presentations, Lovejoy 102 and 103 Student Oral Presentations, Lovejoy 100  ~ 4:00 pm Keynote Speaker, Lovejoy 100 Geneviève Robert. Department of Geology, Bates College Viscosity of Volatile-bearing Silicate Melts”  ~ 5:00 pm Business Meeting &amp; Social Hour</p>

<p>Announcing the Spring Meeting  1:00 pm Friday, April 10th, 2015 Colby College, Waterville, Maine Agenda Student Presentations   Walter Andersen Award GSM Business Meeting Call for Abstracts for Student Presentations Submit abstracts by email to: robert.nelson@colby.edu Please indicate in the subject line if it’s a GSM poster abstract or GSM oral abstract. Abstract Deadline: must be [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The 2015 GSM field trip will be held July 25-26 at Isle au Haut, a town of about 40 year-round people, with a summer population of about 200.  The field trip will be held in the middle of the high season on Isle au Haut and will require advanced planning for lodging and transportation.  The trip leaders will be [&hellip;]</p>

<p>SURFACE WATER AND GROUNDWATER INVESTIGATIONS AND STUDIES IN MAINE Time: Thursday, November 6, 2014 1-5PM Place: Augusta Civic Center, Augusta, Maine Agenda 1: 00-1:25 “Arsenic in Maine’s groundwater and attitudes toward testing and remediation.” Robert Marvinney, PhD, Maine Geological Survey 1:25-1:50 &#8220;Simulation of groundwater withdrawals and streamflow depletion in Branch Brook and the Merriland River [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Next summer (2015), Fred Beck (Geological Society of Maine) and Alison Jones (GSM and Geological Society of Arizona) will again be leading a raft trip through 188 miles of the Grand Canyon &#8211; &#8211; a 7 day trip on 2 motorized 34-foot inflatable rafts.  This will be the 7th trip for Alison and 6th for [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The vehicle caravan for Day 1 of this trip (July 19) will assemble starting at 8:00 AM,  in the Telstar High School parking lot, on Route 26 just south of Bethel village.  Carpooling is encouraged, and we have permission to leave some vehicles at the school for the day.  We plan to start out at 8:30 sharp!</p>

<p>The 2104 GSM field trip will take place in the Bethel, Maine area on July 19 and 20. Lodging We have selected a campground that will reserve a group site or grouped individual sites for us http://www.betheloutdooradventure.com/. This place also has a lot of outdoor activities available in case spouses or children don’t want to [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The Geological Society of Maine (GSM) is pleased to grant funding to support educational programs through the Walter Anderson Fund. GSM will award grants of up to $1,000 to help fund projects that align with the purposes for which the society was formed. Those include: • Furthering the public awareness and understanding of the geology [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The Geological Society of Maine (GSM) is pleased to grant funding to support educational programs through the Walter Anderson Fund. GSM will award grants of up to $1,000 to help fund projects that align with the purposes for which the society was formed. Those include: • Furthering the public awareness and understanding of the geology [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Please note that we are still accepting student abstracts through March 19th for this meeting.  See the previous post, below. Geological Society of Maine Spring Meeting 2014 Bowdoin College Friday, April 4, 2014 11:30 – 1:00pm  Executive Committee lunch meeting through the line in Thorne Hall 1:00 – 2:30pm  Student Poster Presentations, Druckenmiller Hall Atrium 2:30 – 3:30pm   Student Oral Presentations, Druckenmiller Hall Room 016 3:30 – 4:00pm   Business Meeting, Drucke

<p>  Call for Abstracts for Student Presentations Spring Meeting of the Geological Society of Maine Friday April 4th, 2014 Bowdoin College The Spring Meeting of the Geological Society of Maine will be held at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine on Friday April 4, 2014.  Following our 34-year tradition, this meeting will involve student presentations and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>GSM members and the public are invited to a talk at Bowdoin College sponsored by the Earth and Ocean Science Department. Volcanoes and the Great Dying: the end-Permian extinction will be presented by Lindy Elkins-Tanton, director of the Carnegie Institution for Science’s Department of Terrestrial Magnetism. 7 pm, Room 16 Druckenmiller Hall, Bowdoin College.  Volcanoes and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>More details will be forthcoming.  A Call for Abstracts from student presenters will be circulated to Maine colleges and universities soon.</p>

<p>The GSM Fall Meeting will be held Thursday November 14, 2013 at the Augusta Civic Center. It is tentatively scheduled to start at 2 pm. The focus of the fall meeting will be a digital mapping, aerial imagery and LIDAR applications for Maine geology. The program is still under development, but we hope to provide [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Here are the details for the field trip this summer: Field Trips Saturday, August 3rd Morning: Morse Mountain Bev Johnson, Bates College, will update us on recent research on the Sprague Marsh by her students. Afternoon: Steve Dickson, Maine Geological Survey will show us the recent, extreme changes to the beach geomorphology. Sunday, August 4th [&hellip;]</p>

<p>WEDNESDAY April 10, 2013 University of Maine Farmington, North Dining Hall, Olsen Student Center AGENDA (as of 3/29/13) 1:00 to 2:30 pm &#8211; Student posters 2:30 to 3:00 pm &#8211; Student oral presentations 3:00 to 3:45 &#8211; Business meeting 4:00 pm &#8211; Keynote speaker, Dr. Charles Langmuir (Harvard University), Humankind at the helm: Civilization in [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Speakers at the Maine Metallic Minerals conference have generously made PDF files of their Power Point presentations available for posting on our website. They are available on our buy viagra Meetings, Programs &amp; Abstracts Page. Scroll down to the November 9, 2012 meeting.</p>

<p>The Geological Society Fall Meeting and the Maine Metallic Minerals Conference will be held on Friday November 9th at the Black Bear Inn in Orono. The Metallic Minerals Conference will take place from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Society&#8221;s fall busines s meeting will follow the conference presentations, followed by a cash bar reception. [&hellip;]</p>