2025 GSC ANNUAL LATE SUMMER EVENT: Field Trip Followed by Get-Together at Lenny’s Indian Head Inn

Join us for the Society's Annual Late Summer Event! This year, in lieu of a late summer picnic, the Society will be hosting a field trip plus get-together at Lenny’s Indian Head Inn (please note the change in venue for the get-together from the Save-the-Date announcement in the July news blast). The field trip will focus on Jarvis Creek Marsh in Branford, Connecticut, and will include a discussion of the Stony Creek Granite Gneiss as it pops up here and there along the trails through the marsh. Jarvis Creek Marsh field trip leaders Joop Varekamp and Ellen Thomas will elaborate on their Long Island Sound work as presented at last year's annual meeting and demonstrate techniques to derive detailed sea level rise curves from coastal marsh deposits and to evaluate resiliency of marshes after human disturbance. Our discussion of the Stony Creek Granite Gneiss will be guided by Phil Resor, with Bob Wintsch contributing to the field guide (but as prior commitments on the day of the field trip).

​WHERE: Meet at the parking lot for Jarvis Creek Farm Trail, "732"; Leetes Island Road (aka CT-146), Branford, Connecticut, for the field trip (NOTE: please note that 732 Leetes Island Road, the purported address of Jarvis Creek Farm Trail in Google Maps, is not accurate; see meeting place location map below (parking lot symbol along CT-146) or search "Jarvis Creek Farm Trail" in Google Maps)

WHEN: Sunday, September 14, 2025; the field trip starts at 11:30 a.m.
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COST: FREE (with donations to the Student Research Fund kindly accepted (see link below))

Registration deadline: Noon on Wednesday, September 11, 2024

Special information: Please eat an early lunch as only food for thought will be served on the field trip. Footwear appropriate for muddy conditions is recommended!

Parking Map:

Student Fund Donations

​The Geological Society of Connecticut Student Research Fund was started in 2013 by the Geological Society of Connecticut Board of Directors. Donations and fundraising efforts sustain the fund. Contributions to the GSC Student Research Fund are tax deductible as a 501c3 charitable donation (EIN #26-4782969).