Photos from the Fall 2003 Soil Tour of Block Island, Rhode Island

Background: The society hosted a soil, ecology, and geology tour of Block Island, Rhode Island on September 24 and 25, 2003. Thirty members met on the island located 13 miles south of RI and enjoyed perfect weather, great food, and beautiful scenery. We toured 10 soil pits where Mark Stolt and Charley Morgan had collected water table data for Charlie's masters thesis, learned about the ecology of the island by the Nature Conservancy and Niels Barret, and learned about the geology of the island by Dr. Jon Boothroyd, State Geologist and URI professor. The following are images of the tour, click on the photo to view a larger image.

Fish and Wildlife Site

Lunch at the Beach

Mansion Beach

Geology at the Bluff

A perfect sunset
         

Charley shows his monitoring well device

Colin and Meredith with a map of the moraines

The crew at a test pit site

Charley with his well device

The crew looking at data

The crew listening to Jon's talk at Mohegan's Bluff

Organizers digging the pits

Everett Stuart discusses the soil survey of the Island

Group photo at the National Hotel

Jon Boothroyd discusses the Quaternary Geology of Block Island

Jon Boothroyd and Colin

Jon and Pete Fletcher

Niels and Donald showing a vegetation map

No trespassing signs are like yield signs in RI - nobody pays attention to them

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Links: Block Island Geology Book | Block Island Website | The Nature Conservancy