Sponsored by
Harvard University's Earth and Planetary Sciences Department
The New Hampshire Geological Society
The Mount Washington Observatory
Organized by
Mark Van Baalen, Dept. of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Harvard
University, 20 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02138, mvb@harvard.edu
The program will be very simple: three days of field trips in beautiful fall weather! In addition, we will gather Friday night September 27 from 6:30 to 10:00 for an informal welcome party at the Wildcat Ski Area, on Route 16 in Pinkham Notch. The traditional NEIGC banquet will be held again at Wildcat, under the stars or under the snowflakes as appropriate, from 6:30 - 10:00 p.m. on Saturday night September 28.
NEIGC '96 will offer a wide variety of field trips in the northern regions, on topics from stratigraphy to structure and tectonics to petrology to glacial geology to environmental geology to archeology. Most will be in New Hampshire. Some trips will take place in Western Interior Maine; some will range into Eastern Vermont. All trips will be by automobile or van, with pooling encouraged. Each NEIGC participant is responsible for bringing lunch each day and, especially for the trips on Mt. Washington, suitable gear for extreme weather conditions including high winds and freezing temperatures. Field trip leaders will make the judgement on adequacy of equipment for these excursions. Read the field trip descriptions very carefully!!
The dates for this year's event were chosen in order to give the best chance for favorable weather during the above tree-line trips to be offered on Mt. Washington, and also to maximize the natural beauty of the region during the fall foliage season.
Registration forms are available for downloading in TEXT format, Microsoft Word format, and Microsoft RTF format. Print one out, fill it in, and send it off to Mark Van Baalen, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, 20 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02138; W: 617Ð495Ð3237; FAX: 617Ð495Ð8839; H: 508Ð486Ð4751; mvb@harvard.edu
On-site registration will be at the Wildcat Ski Area, on Route 16 in Pinkham Notch, Friday night September 27 from 6:30 - 10:00 pm, Saturday morning September 28 from 7:00 - 8:00 am, or Saturday night September 28 from 6:30 - 10:00 pm.
Since NEIGC '96 will take place during the peak of foliage season, accomodations in the local area will be at a premium. MAKE YOUR RESERVATIONS EARLY! In addition to motels and campgrounds in the Gorham, N.H. area, there are large numbers of places in the North Conway region, a few miles to the south. Campgrounds in the area are numerous. Additional information about the region is available from a number of other WWW sites
The last time the NEIGC visited this area of New Hampshire was in 1946, when Marland P. Billings convened the event at the Glen House Site on Mount Washington. 50 years later, NEIGC '96 will be jointly sponsored by Harvard University's Earth and Planetary Sciences Department, the Mount Washington Observatory, and the New Hampshire Geological Society.
For more information about the late Professor Billings, see issues Number 3 and Number 20 of The Granite State Geologist, and Marland P. Billings 1902-1996: A Remembrance by Brian K. Fowler
Dee Caldwell and Tom Weddle have written a Brief History of the NEIGC, which accompanies a complete listing of past NEIGC Meetings. The set of NEIGC guidebooks from over the years are a priceless collection of New England geology. Many interesting and provocative geologic ideas are published nowhere else.
Kilburn is administered by Tim Allen, (tallen@keene.edu)