Registration is now open for the 2023 Friends of the Pleistocene field conference in Roscommon, Michigan, on May 19-21, 2023. This meeting will focus on the Glacial and Geomorphic Evolution of the Houghton Lake Basin. We urge everyone to register as soon as you can, as this meeting will probably fill up quickly, and attendance is limited, due to transportation restrictions.
The FOP conference will run out of the Ralph A. MacMullen (RAM) Conference Center, 104 Conservation Drive, Roscommon, Michigan, on the shore of beautiful Higgins Lake. Registration fees cover two nights (Friday and Saturday) lodging at the RAM Center, all meals and refreshments except for Friday dinner, your guidebook, gifts, door prizes, and chachkies at the Saturday banquet, and busing. Rooms at the RAM Center are dormitory style; each room has two single beds and shares a bathroom and shower facility down the hall. Registrants may choose single-or double-occupancy rooms when they register. If you choose double occupancy, please inform the conference organizers directly as to your roommate choices/options. Those choosing to lodge at locations other than the RAM Center will pay the same fees. Conference participation is limited to 72 persons.
The meeting will focus on the glacial and post-glacial history of the Houghton Lake Basin, which was profoundly influenced by the newly-minted Mackinac Lobe of the Laurentide Ice Sheet. Tour stops will include two sites at water-laid sand and gravel ridges (“delta moraines”), kame deltas and shorelines of Glacial Lake Roscommon, which variously occupied the Basin, fine-textured lacustrine sediment associated with Glacial Lake Roscommon, gullying on the post-glacial (permafrost-affected) landscape, massive heads of outwash, Late Pleistocene and early Holocene climatic and ecological history (as determined from lake sediments), and eolian/climatic history of the region. We will be rolling out our suite of over 40 new OSL dates on many of these features. In short, we will have something for everyone.
Lots of people have worked behind the scenes to help pull this research project together and to make this trip and meeting a reality, and we thank them all. You’ll see their contributions in the guidebook, and you will see many of them at the meeting. Co-leaders in the field, and guidebook contributors, include (alphabetical) Alan Arbogast, Chris Baish, Brandon Curry, John Esch, Albert Fulton, Kevin Kincare, Ken Lepper, Tom Lowell, and Catherine Yansa.
Professionals, scientists, and educators are encouraged to register for this conference. However, local residents may be more interested in a less-formal, one-day field tour of the same sites on Saturday June 3rd. The one-day tour is free but registration is strongly encouraged (and is at the same link).
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