Field Trips and Workshop
Workshop
Pre-meeting Teaching Climate Change with Ice Core Data workshop: June 2-3
There is no registration fee to participate in the teaching workshop, but application and acceptance are required in order to attend. Registration for the AMQUA Biennial Meeting is not required in order to apply to attend the teaching workshop. Please refer to the Climate Change web site noted below for the application form and full information. The application submission deadline is April 1, 2008. Participants are responsible for their own lodging and meal costs.
As part of the celebrations for the International Polar Year, the U.S. National Committee for the International Union for Quaternary Research (USNC/INQUA), the American Quaternary Association (AMQUA), and the On the Cutting Edge project (NAGT/DLESE) propose a Polar Ice Core Workshop for college teachers to be held in conjunction with the American Quaternary Association's biennial meeting at Penn State in June 2008. This event will build on a previous workshop sponsored by these groups that was held in August 2006 and led to the On the Cutting Edge "Teaching Climate Change" Web page (http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/climatechange/index.html), which provides up-to-date instructional materials and important links for educators.
Field Trips
You must be registered for the Biennial Meeting in order to participate in a field trip.Pre-meeting field trip: Karst and Environmental Geology of Central Pennsylvania: June 4-This trip has been canceled.
Post-meeting field trip: Pleistocene Record in the Middle and Lower Susquehanna River Basin: June 7-9
Led by Duane Braun (Bloomsburg University) and Edward Ciolkosz and Dean Snow (Penn State)
Trip Coordinator:
Duane Braun
Department of Geography and Geosciences
Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
400 East 2nd Street
Bloomsburg PA 17825
Phone: 570-389-4139
E-mail: dbraun@bloomu.edu
Leaving from and returning to The Penn Stater, State College, Pennsylvania. The trip, by bus, will leave midafternoon on June 7 to travel 100 miles across the Valley and Ridge Province to Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. Along the way we will examine early Pleistocene glacial till and varves (with reverse magnetic direction), the Plio-Pleistocene diversion of the West Branch of the Susquehanna River, mid- and late Pleistocene terraces, and drainage diversion due to mid-Pleistocene deposits. Since we will be crossing some of the classic Appalachian terrain, we will have a "side" discussion of the longer-term Cenozoic landscape evolution of the region.
On June 8 we will travel 150 miles, first around Bloomsburg and then down the Susquehanna River to Harrisburg. We will start by examining the mid-Pleistocene glacial terminus and diversion of the North Branch of the Susquehanna River, late Pleistocene loess deposits and terraces, and the late Pleistocene terminal head of outwash and the associated upland moraine belt. Then we will journey down the Susquehanna Valley, examining evidence that negates Shaw's hypothesized catastrophic subglacial flood, early to late Pleistocene terraces, and the classic water gaps near Harrisburg.
On June 9 we will travel forty miles down into the Lower Susquehanna River gorge, first examining the pre-Pleistocene to Holocene terrace sequence upstream of the gorge and then, time and interest permitting, stopping at the late Pleistocene (cosmogenically dated) potholed-bedrock Holtwood portion of the gorge. Then we will head back upstream for thirty miles across the Piedmont Upland and eighty miles across the Valley and Ridge Province, going up the Juniata River Valley toward State College. Along the way we will examine nonglacial Pleistocene terraces, roundstone diamictons mistaken for glacial till on the highest terraces, and Pleistocene periglacial slope deposits (boulder colluvium, shale-chip rubble).
Trip Logistics
Cost: $250/double lodging room
$338/single lodging room
The trip price includes a guidebook, bus transportation, motel accommodations for two nights (shared double rooms), with continental breakfast, box lunches, coffee and snacks, and other nonalcoholic beverages. You will need to pay for two suppers and two breakfasts at restaurants of your choice at or near the overnight accommodations. We will return to State College around 5:00 p.m. on Monday, June 9, so you may want to make additional lodging reservations in State College for Monday night.
The shared double rooms will necessitate that each participant find a roommate among the other participants. A list of all the participants, with contact information, will be sent to you once the field trip registration deadline is past. When you register, if you know with whom you will be rooming, please indicate so on the registration form. Most of the participants will probably not work out who their roommate will be until the meeting occurs or the field trip starts. Upon arriving in Bloomsburg for the first night, any participants who have not yet chosen a roommate will be randomly assigned one by the trip leaders.
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