New England Section

Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts,
Rhode Island, Connecticut, and all Canadian provinces east of Ontario

Section Officers

President: Bruce Rueger, Colby College, Waterville, ME
VP#1: Tarin Weiss, Westfield State University, Westfield, MA
VP#2: Steve Winters, Holyoke Community College, Holyoke, MA
Past President: Karen Kortz, Community College of Rhode Island, Lincoln, RI
Newsletter Editor: Richard Little, (retired) Greenfield Community College, Greenfield, MA
Treasurer: Julia Daly, University of Maine, Farmington
Counsilor: Christine Witkowski, Middlesex Community College, Middletown, CT
Counsilor: Tom Vaughn, College of Professional Studies, Northeastern University, Boston, MA

Upcoming and Recent Events

New England Geological Society of America Meeting (NE GSA meeting webpage)
March 18-20, 2012
early registration by February 13
NAGT luncheon (March 18) (event description)
NAGT-sponsored field trip: In the Footsteps of Dinosaurs: A Guided Tour of Dinosaur State Park for K–16 Educators (March 17) (field trip description)
NAGT-sponsored short course: Misconceptions in Introductory Geology Courses and Ways to Reduce Them with Active Learning Techniques (March 17) (workshop description)
NAGT-sponsored session: Inquiry-Based Activities: Examples and Effectiveness (session description)
NAGT-sponsored session: Technology Integration in K–16 Geoscience Education (session description)

Section Meeting and Field Trip
December 10, 2011
Beneski Natural History Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
Agenda (Acrobat (PDF) 40kB Dec16 11)
Field Trip (Acrobat (PDF) 2.8MB Dec16 11)

Virtual Business Meeting
December, 2011
(minutes coming)

Section Meeting and Conference
October 13, 2007
Manchester Community College, Manchester, CT
Conference and Registration Information
Conference Program

Newsletters and Information