NEW MEXICO GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
Annual Spring Meeting
Every spring, the Society holds a meeting in Socorro to allow presentation of geoscience research, principally from New Mexico and adjacent areas, including Mexico. The meeting features a variety of technical sessions spanning geology, hydrology, geophysics, paleontology, and mineral resources. This well-attended event is a great way to meet other researchers and students working in New Mexico.
Student participation is highly encouraged. The meeting provides an excellent venue for student presentations, and several Society scholarships are awarded to students from New Mexico during the meeting. Explore scholarships and awards.
Next meeting
Date to be announced. Details, meeting parameters, the program, and abstracts for the next annual meeting are not yet available.
2026 meeting & proceedings
April 17, 2026
Macey Center, New Mexico Tech campus, Socorro, New Mexico
This meeting has concluded. The proceedings and abstract listings are available below.
Download the 2026 Spring Meeting Program & Proceedings (PDF)
Online ISSN: 2834-5800
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Online registration is closed. Registration dates and fees for the next meeting have not yet been announced.
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Abstracts from past meetings
Individual Spring Meeting abstracts from 1983 onward are available in the NMGS archive. Browse the abstracts on this website, with meeting years organized through Abstract Years.
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2026 abstracts
The 48 abstracts listed for the April 17, 2026 meeting are shown below. Select a title to read the full abstract on this website.
Watershed Aspect as the Dominant Control on Water Budgets: Results from an Eleven-Year Paired Basin Study
Amy C. Lewis and Dan C. Cadol
He:N2 Ratios of Gases and What They Can Tell Us About Basement Generating Capacity of Helium: Clues From New Mexico
Ronald F. Broadhead
Lessons Learned from the Desert Soil-Geomorphology Project, Southern New Mexico
Curtis Monger and John W. Hawley
The Late Paleozoic Peñasco Uplift, Northern New Mexico
Spencer G. Lucas and Karl Krainer
Origin and Climate Implications of Sedimentary Chert in Western Pangea: Middle Pennsylvanian Gray Mesa Formation, Placitas, New Mexico
Blaine Cecil, Spencer G. Lucas, Jeffrey M. Rahl, James E. Barrick, and William A. DiMichele
Upper Cretaceous selachians and teleost from the Semilla Sandstone Member of the Carlile Shale, southeastern San Juan Basin, New Mexico
Randy J. Pence, Luke Toll, and Spencer G. Lucas
Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Campanian) Ammonites and Inoceramids From the Hagan Basin, Sandoval County, New Mexico
Paul L. Sealey and Spencer G. Lucas
Is New Mexican Gypsum an Analog for Martian Sulfates? Insights from Geochemical, Mineralogical, and Depositional Signatures
Luc E. Carbonneau and Daniel S. Jones
Hydrothermal Calcite-Fluid REE Partitioning Experiments at 200 °C and Saturated Water Vapor Pressure
Willa Obringer and Alexander Gysi
Quantifying Surface and Groundwater Interactions in the San Acacia Reach, New Mexico
Racha Berjaoui and Rachel M. Coyte
Hydrogeophysical Imaging of Aquifers: Building a Statewide Hydrogeologic Framework for New Mexico
Sean D. Connell, Amy Jordan, Peter Guerra, Ahsan Jamil, Seogi Kang, Noah Dewar, Stacy Timmons, and Laila Sturgis
Reconciling Faulting, Stratigraphy, and Paleoclimate in Low-Slip-Rate Basins: Climatic Modulation of Fault-Controlled Hanging-Wall Wedges in the Northwestern Albuquerque Basin, New Mexico
Sean D. Connell, Daniel J. Koning, and Andrew P. Jochems
Ichnofossil Assemblage of the Cambro-Ordovician Bliss Formation, Caballo Mountains, southern New Mexico: Greater Ichnoiversity Than Previously Recognized
Paul T. May, Spencer G. Lucas, and Anton Becker-Stumpf
The Utility of Track Width in Dinosaur Trackway Studies
John B. Rogers and Spencer G. Lucas
Predicting Remotely Sensed Burn Severity using Bayesian Statistical Methods for Pre-fire Hazard Assessment
Abelino Fernandez Leger, Dan Cadol, and Enrico Zorzetto
Keynote Address: Post-Fire Hydrologic Impacts and Lessons Learned From the Hermit's Peak/Calf Canyon Fire, San Miguel, Mora and Taos Counties, New Mexico
Jay Lazarus, Jim Riesterer, Paul Drakos, and Dane Goble
Critical Minerals Potential of Leaching Mine Wastes in Eureka, Hillsboro, McGhee Peak and Steeple Rock Districts in New Mexico, USA
Rebecca A. Boakye, Virginia T. McLemore, Nicole Hurtig, and Bonnie Frey
Looking to the Past to Prepare for the Future: A spatiotemporal land use analysis of the irrigable acreage of La Acequia del Finado Francisco Martinez del Llano Quemado in Taos County, New Mexico
Kamren S. Moore, Jennifer Lindline, Marine Foucher, and Michael Petronis
Resistivity-to-Lithology Relationships Derived from Airborne Electromagnetic Surveys and Well Logs in New Mexico
Amy Jordan, Sean D. Connell, Seogi Kang, Noah Dewar, Stacy Timmons, and Laila Sturgis
Improved bedrock mapping and analysis of fault geometry in the San Ysidro Quadrangle, NM
Eli Roy Froning, Cameron Chavez Reed, Marisa Repasch, and Karl Karlstrom
Uranium In-Situ Recovery (ISR) in New Mexico
Benjamin Russ
Quantifying Arroyo-Derived Sediment Inputs to the Middle Rio Grande
Isabella Oviedo and Marisa Repasch
How Beaver Occupation Influenced Burn Severity, Habitat Resilience, and Landscape Recovery from the Hermits Peak Calf Canyon Fire
Colman Lee, Jennifer Lindline, and Marine Foucher
Microbial Communities in Legacy Mine Waste in New Mexico
Melina C. Karavousanos, Mackenzie B. Best, Daniel S. Jones, and Virginia T. McLemore
Geochemical Assessment of Critical Minerals in Mine Wastes in Central and Southern New Mexico
Sebastian Nipah, Virginia McLemore, and Richard Kelley
Preliminary Data on Flow and Seepage for Assessing Surface Water–Groundwater Exchange in the Low Flow Conveyance Channel, Middle Rio Grande
Tin Trung Nguyen and Dan Cadol
Using Detailed Flash-Flood Sediment Transport Data to Validate Hydraulic Models
Tiffany Spence and Daniel Cadol
Groundwater discharge behavior at Government Spring, Central New Mexico
Matthew Kaspar, Benjamin Tobin, and Margaret Furtner
Syntectonic Deposition, Provenance, and Geochronology of the American Flag Formation, Oracle, Arizona: Constraints on Late Cretaceous–paleogene Deformation
Alejandra Flores Aguilera, James B. Chapman, Lily J. Jackson, and Paulina Alverado
Geological Evolution and Mineral Deposits of the Eureka and Sylvanite Districts in the Little Hatchet Mountains
Sarah Ann Moses, Virginia McLemore, Nels Iverson, and Nicole Hurtig
Geochemical Characterization of Critical Minerals in Mine Waste in the Carlsbad Potash District, and at the Questa Mine, New Mexico
Lawrence Sarpong, Virginia T. McLemore, and Richard Kelley
Towards a Return to Stewardship: Lessons Learned from Watersheds and Communities Under Stress in the Eastern Navajo Nation
Lani Tsinnajinnie
Mineral Chemistry, Architecture, and Fluid Evolution of the Victorio W–Mo–Be–F Magmatic–Hydrothermal System
Jakob Newcomer and William Chavez
Three Years of Water Quality Data After the 2022 Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon Fire; Amounts, Trends, and Impacts
Jennifer Lindline, Kiara Takacs, Daniel Chadborn, and Marine Foucher
Water Salinity and Trace Element Composition in the Bosque del Apache
Antonio Chavez and Rachel Coyte
Geologic Evolution and Mineralization of Distal Mineral Deposits: A Comparative Study of Luna and Sierra County, Southwestern New Mexico
Samantha Beauchaine, Nels Iverson, Nicole Hurtig, and Virginia McLemore
Rio Grande Terrace Stratigraphy and Ages near Truth or Consequences, New Mexico
Daniel J. Koning, Brad D. Sion, Richard P. Lozinsky, Kathleen Rodriguez, Andrew P. Jochems, and Nelia Dunbar
New Probe, Who Dis?
Nels Iverson
Microplastics Occurrence and Distribution in Freshwater Systems of an Arid Region: a Case Study From the Fort Stanton Cave Area, New Mexico
Angela Bosco Mensah and Ranalda Tsosie
A Seismic-Hydraulic Approach to Monitoring Bedload Flux
Daniel Cadol, Loc Luong, John Mitchell McLaughlin, and Susan Bilek
Hydrogeological Controls on Redox Parameters in Arid Shallow Alluvial Systems
Alexander Nelson Forsyth and Rachel Coyte
The Pemada Canyon Dike, an Extension of Previously Identified Volcanic Fields Within the Colorado Plateau or a Unique, Standalone Magmatic Event?
Matthew Avery Ponce, Kevin M. Hobbs, Laura Waters, and Julia Ricci
Wildfires & Mining Legacy: Interfacial Reactions Affecting Metal Mobility
Eresay Alcantar-Velasquez, Lawrence Rael, Kahleya Chapmen, Katelin Fisher, Sakshi Patil, Eliane El Hayek, Angelica Benavidez, Abdul-Mehd Ali, Michael N. Spilde, Angélica Sáenz-Trevizo, Adrian Brearley, José M. Cerrato, and Johanna M. Blake p. 1.
Investigation of the Possible Cretaceous Strata Exposed Along the Western Boundary Fault Zone, Franklin Mountains, El Paso, TX
Yazmin Acuna, Daniela Jimenez, Victoria Olvera, Jay Chapman, Lily Jackson, and Richard Langford p. 1.
New Petrologic Data on the Tooth of Time Landmark, Cimarron Range, New Mexico; Insights into its Origin and Emplacement
Isaiah Archuleta, Jennifer Lindline, Marine Foucher, and Thomas Albers p. 1.
Hyper-Resolution Hydrologic Modeling of Mountain Terrain in New Mexico Using HydroBlocks-Noah-MP
Bernard Nkrumah Attobrah and Enrico Zorzetto p. 1.