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Annual Meeting

2021 NYSGA Field Conference Sept. 25-26

Hosted by SUNY Buffalo State

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Report on the Field Conference

The 92nd NYSGA Field Conference was held Friday-Saturday, Sept 25-26, 2021.  More than 60 people attended 6 different field trips over the two days. Due to Covid restrictions there was no Annual Meeting gathering of all attendees. Find a list of guided field trips below.

The hope for year 2022 is to return to a more typical NYSGA Field Conference to be hosted by SUNY Oswego. For more information regarding the 2022 conference please contact Dr. Nick DiFrancesco (nicholas.difrancesco@oswego.edu).

Saturday, Sept. 25
  • Trip A1: Marine crisis events and fossils of the Late Devonian Appalachian Basin deltaic sequences of western NY (Kimberly Meehan and James Boyle, University at Buffalo)
  • Trip A2: Eighteenmile Creek, South Branch to Lakeshore, Middle to Upper Devonian Shales (Paul Agle, Oswego State University)
  • Trip A3: Penn Dixie Fossil Park & Nature Reserve: A window into the Devonian period of western NY (Philip Stokes and Holly Schreiber, Penn Dixie Fossil Park & Nature Reserve)
  • Trip A4: Glacial Features of Southern Erie County, NY (Kevin Williams, Buffalo State College)
Sunday, Sept. 26
  • Trip B1: Salamanca Conglomerate – A walk along the late Devonian shoreline at Rock City State Forest (Jim Craft, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation)
  • Trip B2: Escarpment to Escarpment to Escarpment: Three Vistas Reflecting the Subsurface Structure of Western NY (Paul Nevergold and Joseph Butch, )