The Northeastern section meeting of the Geological Society of America will be held March 27-29 in Buffalo, New York. I plan on attending it, and I can provide transportation for NOVA students up to the meeting and back. I think it would be awesome to get a whole van-full of people (Honors students and interested others) to take a little roadtrip up there and go to the meeting. The cost for students to attend the 3-day meeting is $45 if you are already a GSA member, or $55 if not. That's a great deal. Other costs: lodging and food. (I'm planning on staying in the hotel where the conference is being held, but there are undoubtedly cheaper options nearby...) I've reserved a NOVA van for us to drive up in, so transportation costs would potentially be zero.

I plan to go up one day "early" for the March 26 field trip to look at the rocks of the field trip: "Silurian - Early Devonian Sequence Stratigraphy, Events, and Paleoenvironments of the Niagara Peninsula Area of New York and Adjacent Ontario, Canada." (Full-day trip, Wed., 26 March. Cost is an additional $30 for students. Lunch provided. Participants must have passports to cross into Canada.)

More information on the meeting is here: http://www.geosociety.org/sectdiv/northe/08mtg/. If you are a NOVA student, let me know as soon as possible whether you want to go up for this meeting/trip. I think it'll be a lot of fun.

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