NAGTEASTERN SECTION MEETING May 14 -17 2009
Hosted
by Northern Virginia CC and the USGS
Initial
Announcement
Thursday,
May 14:
Check
in and registration at Hampton Inn
8:00
10:00 Dessert and Talk by Dr David Foltz (Hampton Inn)
Friday,
May 15
8:00
11:00 workshops/posters (at
Loudoun Campus
NVCC)
12:00-
4:00 field trip: (buses/vans to leave Loudoun campus)
A) USGS tour
B) Naturalist Center of Smithsonian
Museum
C) Belmont Quarry
4:00
8:00 break, dinner on your own
8:00
10:30 Geoauction (Location to be announced)
Saturday,
May 16
Confirmed
all-day trips:
1)
Piedmont of Central, VA
2)
Shenandoah Valley Lower Paleozoic
In the
works:
Fossil
collecting at Calvert Cliffs
Baltimore
area geology
In the works:
Fossil collecting at Calvert Cliffs
Baltimore area geology
Perhaps a return to Gettysburg basin from 2002 meeting
Evening:
Banquet at the Hampton Inn (tentatively 6:30 9:00)
Guest Speaker: Dr Julie Libarkin
Topic: Research in Geoscience Education
Sunday, May 17
Business meeting and breakfast at Hampton Inn
All events will be held at the Hampton Inn or the Loudoun Campus of NVCC. The Inn and campus are only one-half mile apart.