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GSM Spring 2025 Meeting

April 11th

Colby College

Waterville, ME

The Spring 2025 GSM meeting is set for April 11th. This meeting is dedicated to student researchers: it’s a chance for students to share their research and ongoing projects with the Geological Society of Maine (GSM) community. There is no registration fee to participate, but we ask everyone to please fill out the registration form by March 28th to help us host a successful meeting.

Agenda

12:00 PM Lunch (catered in meeting room, free of charge)

12:45 PM Opening remarks and conference overview

1:00 PM Poster session

2:00 PM GSM Business meeting

2:15 PM Student oral presentations

3:00 PM Coffee break

3:20 PM Plenary talk by invited speaker Dr. Juliet Crider (University of Washington)

4:20 PM Awards ceremony

4:40 PM Social hour with light refreshments

Lunch Options

The meeting will begin at 12:00pm. Lunch will be provided in the meeting room, and we encourage participants to join as soon as they arrive on campus. Snacks and coffee will be provided during the meeting.

Poster Details

Posters will be hung on moveable poster boards. To ensure space for all posters, we kindly request that poster sizes be no larger than 36″ by 48″. If you don’t have access to a poster printer, please contact Evan Dethier (edethier@colby.edu) before April 4th to ensure we can get your poster printed in time.Please plan to hang your posters by 12:45pm. Posters will be up for the duration of the meeting and there will be dedicated time for participants to visit with poster presenters.

Student posters are eligible for the Walter A. Anderson Best Student Poster Prize.

Oral Presentation Details

If you prefer to share your work via an oral presentation, terrific! We will have a Mac computer and projector available; if you’d like to use your own computer, you can do so. We recommend using PowerPoint, as this software offers live auto-captioning, which helps to make presentations more accessible to all participants.

Student oral presentations are eligible for the Walter A. Anderson Best Student Speaker Prize.

Meeting Location

Parking on campus is free for visitors. Please adhere to the guidelines and park in any of the visitor lots shown on this map. There are limited charging stations available for EVs. The meeting will take place here:

Parker Reed Room, Shair-Swenson-Watson Alumni Building

Colby College

Alumni Drive

Waterville, ME 04901