Events
Fall/Winter 2010 Field Trip Plans
Stay tuned here and look for an announcement in the mail for another 2010 field trip being scheduled for the Fall. November 20th is the tentative date right now for a north Florida field trip to Alum Bluff or other locales of interest in the panhandle, conditions permitting of course. (there is Torreya State Park on the Appalachicola River, and/or possibly Florida Caverns).
We are still working on the details for this and the revisions to the Society constitution, which will also be delivered by mail to active SEGS members, so be on the lookout for that as well. feel free to contact your Executive Committee officers and/or email us at info@segs.org if you have any questions or concerns about the organization.
Past Event
2010 Annual Meeting and Field Trip at Wekiva Springs, May 14-15
The SEGS 2010 meeting and field trip was held in Central Florida on May 14th and 15th. Our business meeting and dinner was on Friday evening, May 14th at the Residence Inn by Marriott in Altamonte Springs, which included a catered barbeque dinner and complimentary beverages from Marriott. We gratefully thank the kind staff at the Residence Inn for our meeting accommodations and their hospitality. A total of 13 active and new members attended the dinner meeting, we could have used a few more active members, but it was still a good meeting with fruitful discussions.
The field trip on Saturday, May 15th began at Wekiwa Springs State Park where we talked about the area geology and hydrogeology of springs in central Florida, followed by a morning canoeing trip on the Wekiva River and Rock Springs Run. We had a nice group of 14 for the springs visit and lunch at the state park. The afternoon field stop was at Wolf Branch Sink in neighboring Lake County which was facilitated by Walter Wood, who arranged access to the property. This is an impressive swallet feature located in the active karst terrain west of Wekiva and Rock Springs, and it even has a small waterfall cutting down through lower Hawthorn sediments to the well-developed sink. This locality will definitely stay on the list of places to visit for future SEGS field trips in peninsular Florida.
