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Geological Society of Maine
Spring Meeting, Banquet and Field Trip

April 7th and 8th, 2006

University of Maine at Presque Isle
Northern Maine Museum of Science



Note: We need a headcount for dinner arrangements

Preregister here for yourself, students and guests


Schedule:
Schedule information given here is tentative
April 7th (heavy snow date April 21st) April 8th (heavy snow date April 22nd)
12:30-2:00 Registration
Folsom Hall/Museum entrance
-8:00 tent take-down, motel check out
2:00-3:30 Posters and company exhibits
Folsom Hall 2nd 3rd floors
8:00-9:00 breakfast
3:30-3:45 break 9:00-9:15 meet at assembly area
3:45-5:30 Talks, Folsom 305 "fishbowl" 9:15- on the road again
5:30-6:00 Business Meeting, "fishbowl"
tent set-up, Weiden Gym
6:00-6:30 Social,
Campus Center
6:30-7:30 Dinner, Campus Center (CC)
7:30-8:30 Keynote Address, CC
8:30- Entertainment, CC
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Potatoes in Maine guidebook, by Alvin Reeves, Kevin McCartney and Alfred Bushway
Northern Maine Museum of Science
Maine Solar System Model
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Thomas V. Lowell Field Trip Leader: Dr. John T. Hopeck
biography:

Lincoln, Maine native.
Professor, University of Cincinnati.

email: Thomas.Lowell@uc.edu

biography:

Bureau of Land and Water Quality, Maine Dept. of Environmental Protection.
Geology teacher, Unity College.

email: john.t.hopeck@maine.gov

Climate Change, Glacial Lake Agassiz, and Other Misadventures: A Mainer's Perspective Stratigraphy of the Aroostook - Matapedia Belt and Its Contacts with the Central Maine Belt

Nearby motels, within 1.5 astronomical scale units of Sun*

Presque Isle Inn and Convention Center - just outside orbit of Mercury
Budget Traveler Motor Lodge - just inside orbit of Venus
Northern Lights Motel - just inside orbit of Mars

INDOOR CAMPING AVAILABLE AT THE UMPI GYM

* : scale 1 astronomical unit equals 1 mile

Maine Geology and Invited Participant Links:

Geological Society of Maine
Maine Geological Survey
Bates College, Geology Department
Bowdoin College, Geology Department
Colby College, Department of Geology
College of the Atlantic, Environmental Sciences
U. of Laval, Quebec, Département de géologie
U New Brunswick, Department of Geology
UM, Department of Earth Sciences
UM-Farmington, Department of Natural Sciences
UM-Fort Kent, Environmental Studies
UM-Machias, Environmental Studies
UM-Presque Isle, Environmental Science, Geology Concentration
USM, Department of Geology
Maine Maritime Academy, Marine Science
GeoEcology Club at UMPI

Companies and organizations that plan to participate:

Bureau of Remediation and Waste Management, Maine DEP
C.D. Dorion Geological Services
Maine Department of Environmental Protection
Maine Water Resources Research Institute
MicMac Environmental Laboratory
Northeast Geophysical
Sebago Technics, Inc.
S. W. Cole Engineering, Inc.


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