GSM Spring Meeting, Friday, April 11, 2025
Geological Society of Maine Spring Meeting
Join us April 11, 2025 at Colby College for the Geological Society of Maine (GSM) spring meeting as we celebrate Geology in Maine!
Dedicated to student researchers – this meeting is a chance for students to share their research and ongoing projects with the Geological Society of Maine (GSM) community. There is no registration fee to participate, but we ask everyone to please fill out the registration form by March 28th to help us plan for a successful meeting.
Agenda
12:00 to 12:45pm – Lunch (catered in meeting room, free of charge)
12:45 to 1:00pm – Opening remarks and overview of the conference
1:00 to 2:00pm – Poster session
2:00 to 2:15pm – GSM Business meeting
2:15 to 3:00pm – Student oral presentations
3:00 to 3:20pm – Coffee break
3:20 to 4:20pm – Plenary talk by invited speaker Dr. Juliet Crider (University of Washington)
4:20 to 4:40pm – Awards ceremony
4:40 to 5:15pm – Social hour with light refreshments
*Schedule is subject to change, depending on the number of posters and talks we receive. Updates will be posted on this page.*
Lunch Options
The meeting will begin at 12:00pm. Lunch will be provided in the meeting room, and we encourage participants to join as soon as they arrive on campus. Snacks and coffee will be provided during the meeting.
Poster Details
Posters will be hung on moveable poster boards. To ensure space for all posters, we kindly request that poster sizes be no larger than 36″ by 48″. If you don’t have access to a poster printer, please contact Evan Dethier ([email protected]) before April 4th to ensure we can get your poster printed in time.
Please plan to hang your posters by 12:45 pm. Posters will be up for the duration of the meeting and there will be dedicated time for participants to visit with poster presenters.
Student posters are eligible for the Walter A. Anderson Best Student Poster Prize.
Oral Presentation Details
If you prefer to share your work via an oral presentation, terrific! We will have a Mac computer and projector available; if you’d like to use your own computer, you can do so. We recommend using PowerPoint, as this software offers live auto-captioning, which helps to make presentations more accessible to all participants.
Student oral presentations are eligible for the Walter A. Anderson Best Student Speaker Prize.
Planning Your Trip to Colby
Parking on campus is free for visitors. Please adhere to the guidelines and park in any of the visitor lots shown on this map. There are limited charging stations available for EVs.
The meeting will take place at:
Parker Reed Room at Colby College in the Schair-Swenson-Watson Alumni Building
Alumni Drive, Waterville, ME, 04901 United States (map)
Registration Information
We welcome contributions from students and faculty at all of Maine’s college and university campuses. Please let us know that you’re planning to attend by filling out this short registration form. If you’ll be presenting, please select the appropriate mode on the form — poster or oral presentation. If you’re attending and not planning to present, great! Please still register so that we can adequately prepare (and have enough lunch!). We are looking forward to a great event!