News and Announcements

<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>

<p>The annual GSM summer field trip will be held at Mt. Blue State Park on the weekend of August 3rd &#8211; 5th, and the trips will be held on Saturday and Sunday. Saturday we will hike Bald Mountain (Washington Plantation) led by Doug Reusch to exa mine the outstanding bedrock exposures along the ascent. Recent [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Thanks to Kevin McCartney, David Putnam and Chunzeng Wang, the Geology/Ecology Club, and the rest of our friends at UMPI for arranging our spring meeting at Presque Isle. We had a very successful panel discussion on professional activities and employment by Liz Champeon and Cliff Lippitt. There was good audience participation, and extensive discussion in [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The GSM Spring Meeting will be held Friday April 13th at the Northern Maine Museum of Science, University of Maine,181 Main Street, Presque Isle. AGENDA 10:30 -12 Executive Committee meeting 12:00 -1 Lunch 12:15-12:45 Employment panel (meeting of students and professionals to discuss typical interview and employment practices) 1:00 &#8211; 3:30 Student posters and presentations [&hellip;]</p>

<p>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 envir onmental case studies and anything in between will be presented in the afternoon. 2:30PM Brief Business Meeting followed by Keynote Speaker [&hellip;]</p>