The Geological Society of Maine

Fall Meeting – Unity College – Friday Nov. 4, 2011 at 1 p.m.

MarthaM — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 12:57:59 +0000

12:00 Executive Committee meeting

1:00 PM. Unity College Centre for the Performing Arts (UCCPA) in downtown Unity: General Talks relating to geo-environmental issues ranging from the paleoenvironment of Acadia National Park to current environmental case studies and anything in between will be presented in the afternoon.

2:30PM Brief Business Meeting followed by Keynote Speaker

5:00 PM Social Hour, Student Activities Building (SAB) on the Unity College campus

5:30 – 6:00 PM Dinner, at the Thomashow Learning Laboratories, a short walk from the SAB. The cost will be about $10 per person. Lasagna (meat and/or veggie), salad, beverages, and dessert are included. Please RSVP to Lois Ongley so that we can get a fairly good head count estimate for the catering crew.

Revised Fall Meeting Program with Unity College campus map

Unity Directions

Maine staurolite specimens requested for Utah museum

MarthaM — Thu, 26 May 2011 13:38:35 +0000

Does anyone have any Maine staurolite mineral specimens to spare?

Kevin McCartney has received a request from a colleague in Utah for specimens of Maine staurolite with 45 and 90 twinning for a museum display of Staurolites from the US. The colleague offers New Mexico specimens for trade or Kevin is willing to purchase specimens as a donation to the museum. Contact him at Kevin.mccartney@umpi.edu

More information on staurolite is available at webmineral.com.

Spring Meeting Friday April 15th Bates College

MarthaM — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 02:09:28 +0000

Spring meeting abstratcts here: GSM_ABSTRACTS_Bates_2011

Directions here: GSMSpring2011

See you all there!

Spring Meeting (April 15th) Details, Request for Abstracts

MarthaM — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 18:57:46 +0000

ABSTRACTS DUE: April 5th

MEETING DATE: April 15th, 1 pm

MEETING LOCATION: Carnegie Science Building, Bates College

Students are requested to submit abstracts of their oral or poser presentations to Daniel Belknap (belknap@maine.edu) no later than April 5th (extended deadline).

The GSM newsletter with Spring Meeting details has been posted to the Newsletters page of this website. The following link contains a 1-page flyer with meeting details, directions, and format for abstracts.

GSMSpring2011

SPRING MEETING APRIL 15th – Not April 8th

MarthaM — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 22:11:03 +0000

SORRY FOLKS. NEWSLETTER ERROR. Please note that the spring meeting at Bates College is on Friday April 15th (NOT the 8th). It will be held in the New Commons (second floor), not in Carnegie.

There will be a poster session and speakers starting at 1 pm, social hour 5:30 – 8 pm. Those who are staying for dinner will go through the line in the Commons.

Please pass this correction along to your friends and associates. More meeting details soon.

2010 Fall Meeting October 15, USM PORTLAND CAMPUS

MarthaM — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:59:31 +0000

GSM Fall meeting, Friday, October 15, 2010

University of Southern Maine, Portland Campus

Printable Meeting Program. Campus Map

12:00 – 1:00 Executive Board Meeting Room 403 Luther Bonney Hall

1:00 – 3:00 GSM Mini-symposium Room 241 Luther Bonney Hall

1:00 pm The AQUA Index: Risk Assessment of Land Use on High Yield Sand and Gravel Aquifers in Maine, Mark Holden, CG, Environmental Geology Unit, Division of Environmental Assessment, Bureau of Land & Water Quality, Maine Department of Environmental Protection

1:20 pm Regulation of Large Groundwater Withdrawals: Setting and Enforcing Standards for Resource Protection, John T. Hopeck, PhD, Maine Department of Environmental Protection, Land and Water Bureau

1:40 pm Ground Source Heating and Cooling – An Overview of New England Applications, Cliff Lippitt, CG, S. W. Cole Engineers

2:00 pm Concentration Trends And Water Level Fluctuations At Petroleum UST Sites, Alan Kehew, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Mi and American Hydrogeology Corporation, Portage, Michigan, Coauthor Patrick M. Lynch, American Hydrogeology Corp., Portage, Michigan

2:20 pm Groundwater Contamination from Nuclear Power Plant Operations, Matt Darois, Environmental Scientist, Radiation Safety And Control Services Inc., Stratham NH

3:00 – 3:30 Break

3:30 – 5 PM Keynote speaker: Paul Marinos, “The Geology of Athens, Greece”
Talbot Auditorium, Luther Bonney Hall

5 – 5:30 Business meeting

5:30 – 6:30 Social hour

Parking: Park in the parking garage on Bedford Street (bldg 37 on the campus map). Push the button and take a ticket as you enter the garage. Bring the ticket with you to the meeting to get it validated for free parking. When you return to your car after the meeting you will be required to show the ticket to the attendant in the parking office on the ground floor of the garage.

Grand Canyon 2011

MarthaM — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 14:33:15 +0000

Fred Beck and Alison Jones are organizing another geologist-led Grand Canyon rafting trip in the summer of 2011, and would like an electronic show of hands from any who think they might be interested (ajones@clearcreekassociates.com or fmbeck@fmbeck.net). A similar trip was attended by ~30 GSM members, friends and family in 2008, organized by Fred and Alison. Alison has also queried the Arizona Geological Society and 15 or so have indicated an interest, so it has the potential to become a joint (unofficial) Maine-Arizona geological societies trip. Let Alison or Fred know by email if you are interested.

2010 Summer Field Trip Announcement – August 7-8

MarthaM — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:26:18 +0000

Downeast: Lubec & Cutler

Camping at Cobscook Bay State Park Aug. 6 & 7; group cookout Saturday night

Joe Kelley will be leading this year’s trip! On Saturday, we’ll meet at Cobscook Narrows reversing falls for stops including a visit to a coastal bogs in transition, the spit and salt marsh in Lubec, and the type locality of the Quoddy formation. Sunday, we are planning to walk part of the Bold Coast trail in the Cutler Coast Reserve to spectacular views of the cliffs. The walk is a gentle mile to the coast from Rt. 191.

The group campsite at Cobscook State Park is reserved for us on Friday and Saturday nights. Group camping is in the day use area of the park, separate from the regular tent sites, and can only accomodate tents. We’ll have a group cookout at the nearby picnic shelter on Saturday night.

Please RSVP to Julia Daly (dalyj@maine.edu) by July 31 with the following information:

_____ # people

_____ camping w/group Friday and Saturday nights

_____ camping w/group Saturday night only

_____ cookout on Saturday

People wishing to make their own reservations for staying individually in the park may do so, but please still RSVP to me if you plan to join us.

Spring Meeting Notes – Thanks to U Maine

MarthaM — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 20:12:41 +0000

Many thanks to the University of Maine for hosting a successful spring meeting. The meeting was very well attended, and we recognize Dan Belknap for his organizational efforts. Chris Gerbi was the keynote speaker, drawing everyone’s interest to the connections between rheology and a host of geologic processes with his aesthetic and intriguing pictures of Canadian shield outcrops.

The quality of the undergraduate poster and oral presentations was outstanding, making the task of choosing this year’s award winners challenging. The Walter Anderson award for an outstanding poster presentation went to Carlos Castro from Bates College for his presentation titled “Paleostress analysis of Mesozoic fractures and basalt dikes in Tuckerman Ravine, New Hampshire”. The Walter Anderson award for outstanding oral presentation went to Caleb Boucher from the University of Maine for his presentation titled “Magma Mixing in Composite Dikes of Jetteau Point, Gouldsboro, ME”. Thanks to all of the presenters for updating us on the research that is going on at Maine schools.

Thanks to everyone who participated! We hope to see many of you on the summer field trip, details to be shared soon.

Julia Daly, President

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Other quick notes from the meeting:

Summer field trip is still in the planning stages. Check back soon for details.

The fall meeting will be held at USM, Gorham, on October 15th, 2010.

A nominating committee has been formed for fall GSM elections.

“Biogeomon” – If you haven’t heard of it you will soon. Maine will be the location of this international biological and geological monitoring conference in July 2012. More details coming soon. GSM has endorsed the conference. More info is available here: Biogeomon Info.

GSM has pledged to support this fall’s New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference (NEIGC) with a $500 contribution. The meeting and field trips are to be hosted by University of Maine, Orono this fall, October 1-3.

Stay tuned for additional details on all of the above.

Martha Mixon, Secretary

Updated Directions to GSM Meeting Friday March 26

MarthaM — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:05:31 +0000

Please note: the directions published in an earlier post were outdated because building names have changed. A Parking Permit will not be required. Please follow the revised directions to Earth Sciences at University of Maine, Orono :

Driving north on I-95, take Exit 50, turn right (east) on Kelly Road. At T intersection with Main St. (Rt. 2), turn left (N), proceed 2 mi. through Orono, through first traffic lights, and over Stillwater River. At top of hill turn left at traffic lights onto College Avenue. Continue approx. 3/4 mi to N to first University of Maine entrance (large brown sign). Go NE on Munson Road to the top of the hill and take the first road to the right (Sebago Road, at Merrill Hall). Take your next right, heading south on Grove Street Extension, past the greenhouses and parking lot. Bryand Global Sciences Center is the 3-story brick building with arched atrium windows, on the left (East). Park behind the building (East). The parking lot will be designated for our use that day. Call 581-2152 if you get lost.

Heading South on I-95, take exit 51 onto Stillwater Avenue. Continue approximately 1 mile on Stillwater Avenue, cross the Stillwater River, and take a right at the light (McDonalds and Kentucky Fried Chicken) onto College Avenue. Proceed approximately 1 mile south on College Avenue past the first entrance (hocky arena), the steam plant and second entrance (Sebec Rd.) to the third entrance (Munson Road) on your left. Continue as above.

OR USE: http://www.umaine.edu/locator/