2024 Trips
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2023 Spring Trip
During mid April of 2023, the geology club took an exciting trip to the Maine Mineral and Gem Museum in Bethel. Here members were exposed to spectacular mineral specimens from both Maine and all over the world, and club members were even given the opportunity to hold both Lunar and Martian rocks!
Wrapping up the museum tour, club members were given an exclusive look into the lab of the museum’s experimental petrologist Dr. Al Falster. The following day, Dr. Falster accompanied us to the Emmons Quarry, a private quarry owned by the museum, where students were able to collect rocks and minerals for there own personal collection.
2018 Spring Trip
In May, 19 University of Maine Geology Club members and two faculty took a 10-day field trip to Iceland.
The focus of the student-planned trip was on glacial deposits and volcanic rocks in the south of Iceland. The group toured Thingvellir National Park, site of Iceland’s first government and the center of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge Rift Valley where North America and Europe are separating; Geysir, the site of the original geyser; and Gullfoss, Iceland’s largest waterfall, which descends 60 meters into a fracture zone.
The group also spent a day visiting museums and shopping in Reykjavik and taking a dip in the Blue Lagoon, a popular hot spring.
The trip was supported by UMaine alumnus Scott Golden’s contribution to the School of Earth and Climate Sciences along with contributions from the Geological Society of Maine, the Maine Mineralogical and Geological Society, and the College of Natural Sciences, Forestry and Agriculture.
2016 Spring Trip
The University of Maine School of Earth and Climate Sciences Geology Club recently returned from its Spring Break field trip to California. The trip, led by staff advisers Dr. Alicia (Cici) Cruz-Aribe and Marty Yates, traveled round trip to San Francisco, visited Big Sur, the Tiburon Peninsula, and Point Reyes, and toured the Monterrey Aquarium. Thirteen undergraduate students participated in the trip, which was made possible with grants from the Golden Fund, the Geological Society of Maine, the UMaine Student Government and Geology Club fundraising.
2014 Spring Trip
The Geology Club of the University of Maine completed an exciting Spring Break trip starting in Las Vegas NV and ending in Phoenix AZ. The trip was organized by the club members and paid for by the Golden and Ross Undergraduate Enrichment Fund, the UM Student Government, the School of Earth and Climate Sciences, and participants. The week long trip included stunning geology and hikes at Zion National Park, Horseshoe Bend on the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon, the Red Rock area near Sedona, AZ and on recent volcanoes and lava flows in the Flagstaff, AZ area.
