Eastern Student, Lindsey Belliveau, Presented for the Northeast Geological Society of America Meeting

2012 Apr 11

Lindsey Belliveau '13 of Amston, CT, was one of six Eastern Connecticut State University students who presented posters at the 47th Annual Northeast Geological Society of America Meeting (NGSA) at Hartford's Marriott Hotel in March. Belliveau is majoring in Environmental Earth Science.

The title of Belliveau's presentation was "Textural analysis and crystal size distributions of plagioclase and clinopyroxene from Atlantic Massif, Mid-Atlantic Ridge." The presentation described the research of microscopic analyses.

The theme of the meeting, "200 Years of Geology in the Northeast," celebrated the 1818 founding of the American Journal of Science and the 1810 publication of the first memoir of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences.

The meeting was hosted by the Center for Integrative Geosciences at the University of Connecticut; the Department of Physics and Earth Sciences at Central Connecticut State University; the Science Division at Middlesex Community College; and the Connecticut Geological Survey of the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.

Eastern Connecticut State University is a member of the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities under the Board of Regents for Higher Education. Eastern is the state's public liberal arts university and serves approximately 5,600 students each year on its Willimantic campus and satellite locations.