This year’s Spring Meeting will be held Friday, March 26, 2010 at the University of Maine in Orono’s Bryand Global Sciences Center (Department of Earth Sciences and Climate Change Institute). 
Agenda:
12:30 – 2:00: Student poster sessions – 2nd floor atrium
2:00 – 3:30: Student oral presentations – BGSC 100
3:30 – 4:00: Business Meeting – BGSC
4:00 – 5:00: Evening Speaker – To be announced
5:00 – 5:30: Social Hour
5:30 – 6:30: DINNER – York Commons
Following our long-standing tradition, this meeting will involve student presentations and posters in the afternoon, and a key-note speaker in the evening. All advisors of undergraduate and graduate students should encourage their students to participate and present their work orally or by poster. Please submit your abstracts as soon as possible by e-mail to:
Daniel F. Belknap
Dept. Geological Sciences, University of Maine
Orono, ME 04469-5790
Email: belknap@maine.edu
Abstracts will be compiled and handed out as a Program and Abstracts Supplement to the newsletter at the meeting. Abstracts must be formatted similar to GSA abstracts, with a title, clearly identified name of presenter, affiliation, and body of text no more than 300 words.
For those of you unfamiliar with the Bryand Global Sciences Center, the following are directions: 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). Stop at Public Safety in white clapboard building on that corner for a visitors parking permit (you can get a campus map there if necessary). 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 (hockey arena), the steam plant and second entrance (Sebec Rd.) to the third entrance (Munson Road) on your left, at Public Safety. Continue as above.
