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Past Field Trips
A list of subjects, locations and leaders of all our field trips:
2023 - Geologic Features of the Franconia Notch Area. Trip lead by Brian Fowler, Thom Davis and Matt Maclay.
2022 - GSNH Summer Field trip canceled due to COVID-19.
2021 - GSNH Summer Field trip, a guided tour of the Geology of the Ossipee Ring Complex. Trip lead by Nelson Eby (Professor of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts - Lowell).
2020 - GSNH Summer Field trip canceled due to COVID-19.
2019 - GSNH Summer Field trip, a guided tour of Pawtuckaway State Park. Trip lead by Charlie Kerwin (Keene State College) and Wayne Ives (Hydrologist, NH DES Watershed Management Program). A GEOLOGY FIELD GUIDE and a HYDROGEOLOGY FIELD GUIDE is available.
2018 - GSNH Summer Field trip, a guided bus tour to three stops [(1) Squantum Head, (2) Squantum south (Orchard Beach) and (3) Webster Conservation Area] around the Boston Basin. Trip lead by Kenneth Galli (Earth & Environmental Sciences, Boston College) and Richard Bailey (Marine and Environmental Sciences, Marine Science Center, Northeastern University). A FIELD GUIDE is available.
2017 - GSNH Summer Field Trip, guided tour of the Mount Ascutney Area of west central NH – east central VT. Trip lead by Greg Walsh (USGS mapper in that area). Click to view a copy of the Mnt Ascutney Field Trip Guidebook.
2016 - GSNH Summer Field Trip, guided tour up the Mt. Washington Auto Road and a tour of the summit's Mount Washington Observatory’s up-graded weather facilities and the Extreme Mount Washington Summit Museum. Trip lead by Brian Fowler.
2015 - GSNH Summer Field Trip Fluvial Geomorphology -Merrimack Village Dam Removal and Suncook River Avulsion. Trip led by Matt Collins - NOAA, Noah Snyder - Boston College, Shane Csiki - NHGS, Thor Smith - USGS, and Meghan Arpino - UNH.
2014 - GSNH Summer Field Trip, in conjunction with Maine Geological Society. Geological sites in the Bethel-Gilead area in western Maine and right on the border with Shelburne, N.H - Trip lead by Kitty Breskin (Maine D.O.T.), Dyk Eusden (Bates College), and Woody Thompson (Maine Geological Survey)
2013 - GSNH Summer Field Trip BEDROCK AND SURFICIAL GEOLOGY OF THE LAKES REGION - CENTRAL NEW HAMPSHIRE - Trip led by Dan Tinkham and John Brooks - Field Trip Guide
2011 - Joint Field Trip with Vermont Geological Society of glacial, glacial lake and meltwater features in the upper Connecticut River Valley. Trip led by Woody Thompson.
2010 - Madison Boulder and Redstone Quarry, Conway, NH. Redstone Quarry and famous Conway Geothermal Borehole, with historical tour guided by Steve Swenson. Tin Mountain Conservation Center.
2009 - Star Island, Isles of Shoals, NH: Geology of Star Island. Among the few exposed bedrock highs between Cape Ann, MA and Portland, ME. Dominated by granitic gneisses having undergone multiple stages of deformation, with mylonitic and other shear features. Leader: Wally Bothner, Emeritus Professor of Geology, UNH
2008 - Palermo Mine, Groton, NH: Exploration of the geology, history, and human history of the development of the Palermo Mine, from its origins as an industrial supplier of muscovite to the identification of over 100 different minerals.
Leader: Robert Whitmore
2007 - Hopkinton, NH: review of recent and current mapping and interpretations of Pleistocene glacial geomorphology of the Hopkinton 7-1/2' USGS Quadrangle.
Leader: Carl Koteff
2006 - Alstead, NH to view the area of the October 2005 flooding and the Wm. Wise Fluorite Mine in Westmoreland, NH
Leaders: Dick Lane, Jack Ridge, David Wunsch and Bob Whitmore
2005 - Subject: Mafic Ammonoosuc Volcanics, the Whitefield Pluton and the Clough, Fitch and Littleton Formations
Location: Littleton, New Hampshire
Leader: Doug Rankin
2004 - Wells, Lebanon and Acton, Maine, Joint Field Trip with the Geological Society of Maine
Leaders: Steve Dickson and Peter Thompson
2003 - Mount Washington and the Gorham Area of the New Hampshire White Mountains, Joint Field Trip with the Geological Society of Maine/ Leaders: Brian Fowler, Dyk Eusden, Thom Davis, Tim Allen, Woody Thompson and Dick Boisvert.
2002 - Bedrock Mapping Around Lake Sunapee, New Hampshire
Leader: Tim Allen
2001 - USGS NH Fractured-Bedrock Aquifer Pinnardville and Windham Quadrangle Sites / Leaders: Rich Moore, Greg Walsh, Stewart Clark and James Degnan
2000 - Problems in Bedrock Geology and Metamorphic Stratigraphy Relating to the Piermont-Frontenac Allocthon / Leader: Robert Moench
1999 - Bedrock Geology of the Nashua Trough, New Hampshire
Leader: Pat Barosh
1998 - Late Wisconsinan Deglacial History of Parts of the Contoocook, Souhegan and Piscataquog Drainage Basins, New Hampshire
Leaders: Richard Moore and Carol Hildreth
1997 - Nappes, Gneiss Domes, and Plutonic Sheets of West-Central New Hampshire
Leader: Tim Allen
1996 - A Field Excursion to the Coastal Region of New Hampshire and the Isles of Shoals
Leaders: John Brooks and Steve Rickerich
1995 - Geology of Mount Monadnock, Jaffrey, New Hampshire
Leader: Peter Thompson
1994 - The Late Glacial Marine Invasion of Coastal Central New England (Southeastern New Hampshire - Southwestern Maine) Leader: Carl Koteff
1993 - Summit of Mount Washington and Observatory Tours
1992 - Tour of the Ossipee Mountains Ring-Dike Complex, Gilford, New Hampshire
1991 - Palermo Mine Tour
Leader: Bob Whitmore
2023 - Geologic Features of the Franconia Notch Area. Trip lead by Brian Fowler, Thom Davis and Matt Maclay.
2022 - GSNH Summer Field trip canceled due to COVID-19.
2021 - GSNH Summer Field trip, a guided tour of the Geology of the Ossipee Ring Complex. Trip lead by Nelson Eby (Professor of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts - Lowell).
2020 - GSNH Summer Field trip canceled due to COVID-19.
2019 - GSNH Summer Field trip, a guided tour of Pawtuckaway State Park. Trip lead by Charlie Kerwin (Keene State College) and Wayne Ives (Hydrologist, NH DES Watershed Management Program). A GEOLOGY FIELD GUIDE and a HYDROGEOLOGY FIELD GUIDE is available.
2018 - GSNH Summer Field trip, a guided bus tour to three stops [(1) Squantum Head, (2) Squantum south (Orchard Beach) and (3) Webster Conservation Area] around the Boston Basin. Trip lead by Kenneth Galli (Earth & Environmental Sciences, Boston College) and Richard Bailey (Marine and Environmental Sciences, Marine Science Center, Northeastern University). A FIELD GUIDE is available.
2017 - GSNH Summer Field Trip, guided tour of the Mount Ascutney Area of west central NH – east central VT. Trip lead by Greg Walsh (USGS mapper in that area). Click to view a copy of the Mnt Ascutney Field Trip Guidebook.
2016 - GSNH Summer Field Trip, guided tour up the Mt. Washington Auto Road and a tour of the summit's Mount Washington Observatory’s up-graded weather facilities and the Extreme Mount Washington Summit Museum. Trip lead by Brian Fowler.
2015 - GSNH Summer Field Trip Fluvial Geomorphology -Merrimack Village Dam Removal and Suncook River Avulsion. Trip led by Matt Collins - NOAA, Noah Snyder - Boston College, Shane Csiki - NHGS, Thor Smith - USGS, and Meghan Arpino - UNH.
2014 - GSNH Summer Field Trip, in conjunction with Maine Geological Society. Geological sites in the Bethel-Gilead area in western Maine and right on the border with Shelburne, N.H - Trip lead by Kitty Breskin (Maine D.O.T.), Dyk Eusden (Bates College), and Woody Thompson (Maine Geological Survey)
2013 - GSNH Summer Field Trip BEDROCK AND SURFICIAL GEOLOGY OF THE LAKES REGION - CENTRAL NEW HAMPSHIRE - Trip led by Dan Tinkham and John Brooks - Field Trip Guide
2011 - Joint Field Trip with Vermont Geological Society of glacial, glacial lake and meltwater features in the upper Connecticut River Valley. Trip led by Woody Thompson.
2010 - Madison Boulder and Redstone Quarry, Conway, NH. Redstone Quarry and famous Conway Geothermal Borehole, with historical tour guided by Steve Swenson. Tin Mountain Conservation Center.
2009 - Star Island, Isles of Shoals, NH: Geology of Star Island. Among the few exposed bedrock highs between Cape Ann, MA and Portland, ME. Dominated by granitic gneisses having undergone multiple stages of deformation, with mylonitic and other shear features. Leader: Wally Bothner, Emeritus Professor of Geology, UNH
2008 - Palermo Mine, Groton, NH: Exploration of the geology, history, and human history of the development of the Palermo Mine, from its origins as an industrial supplier of muscovite to the identification of over 100 different minerals.
Leader: Robert Whitmore
2007 - Hopkinton, NH: review of recent and current mapping and interpretations of Pleistocene glacial geomorphology of the Hopkinton 7-1/2' USGS Quadrangle.
Leader: Carl Koteff
2006 - Alstead, NH to view the area of the October 2005 flooding and the Wm. Wise Fluorite Mine in Westmoreland, NH
Leaders: Dick Lane, Jack Ridge, David Wunsch and Bob Whitmore
2005 - Subject: Mafic Ammonoosuc Volcanics, the Whitefield Pluton and the Clough, Fitch and Littleton Formations
Location: Littleton, New Hampshire
Leader: Doug Rankin
2004 - Wells, Lebanon and Acton, Maine, Joint Field Trip with the Geological Society of Maine
Leaders: Steve Dickson and Peter Thompson
2003 - Mount Washington and the Gorham Area of the New Hampshire White Mountains, Joint Field Trip with the Geological Society of Maine/ Leaders: Brian Fowler, Dyk Eusden, Thom Davis, Tim Allen, Woody Thompson and Dick Boisvert.
2002 - Bedrock Mapping Around Lake Sunapee, New Hampshire
Leader: Tim Allen
2001 - USGS NH Fractured-Bedrock Aquifer Pinnardville and Windham Quadrangle Sites / Leaders: Rich Moore, Greg Walsh, Stewart Clark and James Degnan
2000 - Problems in Bedrock Geology and Metamorphic Stratigraphy Relating to the Piermont-Frontenac Allocthon / Leader: Robert Moench
1999 - Bedrock Geology of the Nashua Trough, New Hampshire
Leader: Pat Barosh
1998 - Late Wisconsinan Deglacial History of Parts of the Contoocook, Souhegan and Piscataquog Drainage Basins, New Hampshire
Leaders: Richard Moore and Carol Hildreth
1997 - Nappes, Gneiss Domes, and Plutonic Sheets of West-Central New Hampshire
Leader: Tim Allen
1996 - A Field Excursion to the Coastal Region of New Hampshire and the Isles of Shoals
Leaders: John Brooks and Steve Rickerich
1995 - Geology of Mount Monadnock, Jaffrey, New Hampshire
Leader: Peter Thompson
1994 - The Late Glacial Marine Invasion of Coastal Central New England (Southeastern New Hampshire - Southwestern Maine) Leader: Carl Koteff
1993 - Summit of Mount Washington and Observatory Tours
1992 - Tour of the Ossipee Mountains Ring-Dike Complex, Gilford, New Hampshire
1991 - Palermo Mine Tour
Leader: Bob Whitmore