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2017 Geological Society of Maine Summer Field Trip Please Register!! =========================================== GSM members and friends, As described in the June Newsletter, the 2017 GSM Summer Field Trip will be held the weekend of August 5 and 6 in southern Maine. Registration is open from now until Friday, July 14. Please look at the attached registration form, choose your options, and mail it with whatever payment is needed to Steve Kelley at the address on the form (and as shown below). Yes, you’ll need to find a postage stamp. Because of this year’s location in the heart of summer tourist country, we are asking everyone who is going on the trip to register. Please don’t just show up! Logistics are tight but manageable if we know how many people are coming. If you can bring a van or minivan to help carpool, it would alleviate traffic and parking pressures and make the trip more enjoyable. One preposterous feature of this year’s trip is the early starting time Saturday morning. There’s simply no way around it. We must begin at 7:15 am in order to get in and out of Ogunquit before the beach crowd swells to gridlock proportions. The Marginal Way geology is well worth the effort. If this absurd time is too early for you, you can join the trip at 1:00 pm when we circle back to the starting point. However the day goes, I hope everyone will join us for the cookout Saturday evening, the annual centerpiece of the summer field trip. I also recommend getting the T-shirt designed especially for the field trip, as well as Arthur Hussey’s marvelous book which is available to us at a discounted price. I am so excited to be visiting these classic localities. This has all the earmarks of another memorable GSM field trip. I hope to see you there. Henry Berry 287-7179
Rob Peale, GSM member and previous Treasurer is retiring from DEP. There will be a retirement celebration at Margarita’s restaurant in Augusta. I have copied Troy Smith’s email below with the details. I would like to invite you to join me in celebrating Rob Peale’s retirement from DEP. Rob will be retiring at the end of May after 29+ years of service. We will be having a celebration in his honor at Margarita’s Restaurant in Augusta on Tuesday, May 23 starting at 4:00. This will be an informal gathering, socializing, and celebrating together. If any of you have a story to tell or a special memory, let me know so we can be sure to hear it! This should be a fun time to celebrate Rob’s career as he sets off for new travel adventures with his wife Debbie. Please respond to me via email or phone if you are planning to attend so I can let the restaurant know how many to expect and how many appetizers to prepare. Please respond by May 17 (2 weeks).You will be able to order drinks and food from the menu if you wish to pay for your own meal and refreshments. I will have cards circulating within the Bureau of Remediation in the coming days and I will have one for people to sign at the party. For those who cannot make it on the 23rd, I will have a card posted at Maryann Griffin’s cubicle to sign (next to the equipment sign out). I am collecting money for a gift for him and to help with the cost of the appetizers. Rob has made it clear that he does not want anyone to be obligated to pay to come to his party. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Please come and celebrate with us! Thank you, Troy Smith August 5 and 6, 2017 This year’s trip will feature classic localities on the southern Maine coast, most of which were studied and described by Arthur Hussey and are featured in his 2015 book “A Guide to the Geology of Southwestern Maine.” The plan is to get from Ogunquit to Biddeford on Saturday, and from Saco to South Portland on Sunday. We have made arrangements with the University of New England for dormitory housing on their Biddeford campus Saturday night. Be aware that we will be traveling along the most congested portion of Route 1 during peak tourist season, so logistics may be challenging. But there is a reason that this area is so popular. The beautiful coastline with extensive bedrock exposures and active beach systems will showcase outstanding geology well worth any inconvenience! The detailed itinerary and logistical information are still in the works.
From Magnifying Glass to Microscope: The New National Water Model David Maidment, University of Texas at Austin Monday, April 10 at 3:00 pm
107 Norman Smith Hall, UMaine
Canceled: GeoPRISMS distinguished lecturer, Dr. Heather Savage at Bowdoin College The Department of Earth and Oceanographic Science at Bowdoin College Thursday April 6, 2017 Druckenmiller Hall 016 April 7 Room 221/222 New Commons Bates College Preliminary schedule (depending on abstracts received) 1:30 GSM business meeting 1:45 Student poster presentations 3:15 Keynote presentation, Dr. Dwight Bradley ”Geochronology and tectonics of lithium-cesium-tantalum pegmatites of the Appalachians” 4:15 Student oral presentations 5:30 Awards and Social Hour 6:30 Dinner through the line in the Commons Students at any Maine school and students from elsewhere who are working in Maine are invited to present their work in either poster or oral format. Abstracts must be submitted to Bev Johnson (bjohnso3@bates.edu) by Friday, March 24. For details please see the 2017 Spring Meeting flyer.
Call for Member Participation: GSM Communications Committee GSM is forming a communications committee to develop recommendations for policies and procedures related to more effective communication of GSM business and activities to members, other organizations, and the public at large. The recommendations will be presented to the Executive Council at the Spring Meeting (April 7, 2017). Possible issues to be addressed include, but are not limited to, more effective utilization of the GSM website, establishing an email account for the Society, developing ways to connect interested members with educators or non-profit organizations looking for a geologist to visit in the classroom or in the field, and discovering and broadcasting geology-related events throughout the state. The committee will outline to the Executive Council what and how things might be done, and will be tasked with implementation of many of these ideas in the future. Public lecture at Bowdoin College on Wednesday, March 1st, 7-8pm. https://www.bowdoin.edu/calendar/event.jsp?bid=883402&rid=101986 The 2017 Maine Sustainability & Water Conference will take place on Thursday, March 30th, at the Augusta Civic Center. The session list has been posted. Of note, there will be two sessions on groundwater issues, but check out the full list at the link below: Concurrent Sessions | Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions | University of Maine |
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