Call For Session Proposals


2009 Portland GSA Annual Meeting (18-21 October 2009)
Portland, Oregon USA
Oregon Convention Center

  
Proposal deadline: 11:59 PM, Tuesday, 6 January 2009

Technical Program Proposals 2009

Thank you for your interest in the 2009 Portland GSA Annual Meeting (18-21 October 2009). The GSA annual meetings begin on a Sunday, and end the following Wednesday.

Proposers Please Note: Before you begin to fill out the forms, in addition to text for pasting into memo fields, please have all of the contact information available for ALL of your conveners or advocates (full first and last names, full address and zip, phone, fax, e-mail).

Topical Sessions are a combination of volunteered and three (3) invited papers submitted to a specific session. Any individual or geoscience organization is welcome to submit a proposal.

Sponsorships: Please be sure to contact each of your intended Sponsors in order to receive their approval and commitment to sponsor your session. Deadline to add sponsorships is Tuesday, 6 January 2009.

For more sponsorship and contact information, go to the GSA Divisions page.

General Session Guidelines

Flexible and creative programming is encouraged. A person can only be a primary advocate or convener on one session, and a secondary advocate on two others. Submit each proposal on a separate form.

Organizers are encouraged to have one or more of the invited speakers present an overview of the topic at the beginning of the session that would be of interest and understandable to fellow scientists who are not in the specialty field, but interested in the topic. This type of overview presentation will be so designated in the program and should be given by well regarded, effective speakers.

For oral sessions, the number of half-days allotted for that topic will depend on the number of abstracts submitted.

Publication of Technical Session Proceedings

 GSA Council requests that proceedings of any technical session sponsored by a GSA division, and given at a GSA annual or section meeting, first be offered to GSA for consideration of publication. As always, submission does not guarantee publication. Acceptance is in the hands of the GSA Books Science Editor and the reviewers. GSA would also like the opportunity of publishing sessions sponsored by associated societies, but such sessions are not covered under the action of Council.

For additional information:
Dick Berg
2009 Technical Program Chair

Nancy Wright
GSA Technical Program Manager

Select the link below to submit a proposal to the 2009 Portland GSA Annual Meeting (18-21 October 2009).

  1. Topical Session: Requirements and proposal submission form.
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