Annual Meetings

For over 20 years, the Pacific Northwest Section has been holding annual meetings and field trips that focus on regional geology, research done by area professionals, and teaching methods. Section meetings attract professional geologists, 2 and 4-year college faculty, and K-12 educators from across the Pacific Northwest.

Upcoming Meeting:

2025 Annual Meeting, June 26-28, University of Oregon Concordia Northeast Campus, Portland, Oregon (hosted by Mount Hood Community College, University of Oregon)

Join us in Portland Oregon to meet colleagues from around the Pacific Northwest, share teaching techniques, and explore some amazing geology!

This year we are excited to announce that our conference is being held in parallel to, and co-located with, the Cascadia Region Earthquake Science Center (https://cascadiaquakes.org/) annual stakeholders meeting. The program of the 2024 stakeholders meeting is linked here. Part of the mandate of CRESCENT is geoscience education.  We are looking to have opportunities for interactions between the NAGT and CRESCENT conference participants, such as a geoscience education workshops and perhaps shared student poster sessions.  More details will follow.

 

Registration and Call for Presentations and Posters information:

Registration link will be available soon!

Submit presentation and poster abstracts here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfUEJWPtZgZ0BzcXQRwiiIY1OzR92n1AyWc8tKx0z0NHUlkOg/viewform

 

Survey and Session Proposals:

Please use the link below to let us know preliminary interest in being a part of the Portland Conference.  We would also like proposals for sessions, workshops, field trips or other activities you would like to see at the 2025 meeting that speak to the conference theme of Geoscience along the margin: intersections of people, community, and science.

Survey  link: https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_d6vA0okt5IGDlXM

 

Tentative Schedule:

We are working with the CRESCENT team to plan the two meetings to be side by side.  The local lead NAGT host, Daina Hardisty and her team have been leading field trips in the Portland area for decades and have an impressive lineup of field trip choices for us.

Thursday, June 26:

Day

  • Field trip to the Columbia River Gorge

Afternoon

  • Invited and submitted NAGT presentations
  • NAGT Section Business Meeting
  • Presentation from Andrew Meigs (Oregon State University/CRESCENT)

Evening

  • Reception with CRESCENT & submitted posters

Friday, June 27

Morning

  • Invited and submitted NAGT presentations
  • Joint Geoscience Education Workshop with CRESCENT 

Afternoon 

  • Natural & Urban Earthquake Hazards Field Trip in conjunction with CRESCENT

Saturday, June 28

  • All-Day Field Trip to the Oregon Coast

     

Lodging information:

Portland has many lodging options. We will be collaborating with the CRESCENT stakeholders meeting and the University of Oregon on securing hotel room booking deals for the meeting.

The closest hotel to the University Oregon Concordia Northeast Campus (2811 NE Holman Street) is:

McMenamins Kennedy School

A more distant but lower-cost option is:

Radisson Hotel Portland Airport

CRESCENT is partnering with the Radisson Portland Airport, and the hotel has said that they will provide a shuttle to/from the conference site.

 

Questions? Contact the planning team:

 

 

Past Meetings:

2024 - YAKIMA, WA, hosted by Yakima Valley College

2023 - NEW WESTMINSTER, BC, hosted by Douglas College

2022 - PENDLETON, OR, hosted by Blue Mountain Community College

2021 - VIRTUAL MEETING

2020 - NO MEETING (COVID)

2019 - PENTICTON, BC, hosted by Okanagan College

2018 - GRESHAM, OR

2017 - CRATERS OF THE MOON NATIONAL MONUMENT, ID

2016 - HELLS CANYON, ID

2015 - VICTORIA, BC

2014 - WENATCHEE, WA

2013 - COOS BAY, OR

2012 - SPOKANE, WA

2011 - MALHEUR FIELD STATION, OR

2010 - TWIN FALLS, ID

2009 - VANCOUVER, BC

2008 - YAKIMA, WA

2007 - PORTLAND, OR

2006 - BELLINGHAM,WA

2005 - COOS BAY, OR

2004 - WENATCHEE, WA

2003 - JUNEAU, AK

2002 - CORVALLIS, OR

2OO1 - BELLEVUE, WA

2000 - PORTLAND, OR

1999 - SPOKANE, WA

Interested in Hosting an Annual Meeting? 

Check out the guidelines for organizing a Section Conference (Acrobat (PDF) 93kB Dec15 04)

Contact the current section President