Outreach & Field Trips Led

On January 9, 2020, Dr. Ken Galli, EESC Lab Manager/Lecturer, taught Baldwin Early Learning Pilot Academy kindergarten and first grade students about dinosaurs. This included having students “walk like a dinosaur” along a dinosaur trackway that Ken had prepared.

(Above) Ken points out a Fault in the Roxbury Formation strata at Squantum Head, MA.
Dr. Galli on the age of dinosaur-bearing rocks
EESC lab manager and lecturer Ken Galli was quoted in an August 2019 Knowable Magazine article, “To date a dinosaur” on recent studies of fossil-rich rocks in the western U.S. Dr. Galli’s work collecting and dating zircon minerals from the Morrison Formation in Colorado was published in the Journal of Geology in 2018.
Roche Moutonnee, Foster Street, Brighton, MA eesc1181_19 Field Trip
Striations, Groove, Hydrothermal Veins, Roche Moutonnee, Foster Street, Brighton, MA
Great Group of Geologists of the Geological Society of New Hampshire in front of our swell Coach and expert driver! for our August 4, 2018 Field Trip to the Squantum area and the Webster Conservation Area to observe and discuss the Boston Bay Group!
Ken speaking about Fr. Jim Skehan at the Inaugural Fr. James Skehan Colloquium at Weston Observatory, 2016.

Trip Leaders: Dr. Ken Galli (Ph.D., Geology, University of Massachusetts Amherst) [Lab Manager / Lecturer: Boston College Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences] and Mr. Bruce Porter (M.S., Physics, Stoney Brook)[Optical Physicist]

We will visit, describe and explain six outstanding features that are evidence of the last phase of the Great Ice Age (Pleistocene epoch) in and around Sudbury, MA. Features to be seen include: drumlin at Drumlin Farm, Lincoln; esker overlooking Schoolhouse Pond, Wayland; Glacial Lake Sudbury at the Great Meadows NWR, Glacial Erratic, kame terraces and a kettle hole in Gray Reservation in Sudbury.  Starting and concluding at Weston Observatory, this should prove to be an informative outing!

Field Trippers walking up drumlin at Drumlin Farms, one of our stops.

Labeled Tree Rings, Houghton’s Pond, Blue Hills Reservation, 2014 Field Trip

Photos from our 2004 Field Trip to Nova Scotia

Ken, smiling at hanging tent, somewhere in Nova Scotia!
May 7, 2004, Climbing Ripples, Roxbury Formation, Chestnut Hill, MA GE125 Field Trip
May 2, 2004 Clast-Supported Conglomerate of the Brookline Member, Roxbury Formation, at Webster Conservation Area, GE125 Field Trip
Pennsylvanian Wamsutta Formation, Canton RR Locality, Norfolk Basin
GE125 Field Trip: Pennsylvanian Wamsutta Formation, Canton RR Locality
GE125 Field Trip: Pennsylvanian Wamsutta Formation, Canton RR Locality
GE125 Field Trip: Pennsylvanian Wamsutta Formation, Canton RR Locality
GE125 Field Trip: Ediacaran Roxbury Formation, Squantum Member, Squantum Head, Quincy, MA Locality

GE125 Field Trip: Ediacaran Roxbury Formation, Squantum Member Squantum Head, Quincy, MA Locality
GE125 Field Trip: Ediacaran Roxbury Formation, Squantum Member, Squantum Head, Quincy, MA Locality
Somewhere a long time ago! I believe this may have been my first field trip! Thanks to Mom and Dad!

Excellent Field Trip to Cape Cod by the Friends of the Pleistocene, that Prof. Bailey and I attended. June, 2019.
Trip was led by Byron and Janet Stone.

Stone, B.D., and Stone, J.R., 2019, Geologic Origins of Cape Cod, Massachusetts; Guidebook for the
Northeast Friends of the Pleistocene, 82nd Annual Fieldtrip, May 31-June 2, 2019: Massachusetts
Geological Survey Open-file Report 19-01, 63 p.