Rocky Mountain Section - 61st Annual Meeting (11-13 May 2009)
Session No. 20 Wednesday, 13 May 2009
1:00 PM-5:00 PM, Utah Valley University: LI 212

T18. Geology and Public Policy in the West

Christine E. Turner, Presiding
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20-11:00 PM THE HYDROGEOLOGY OF MOAB-SPANISH VALLEY, SOUTHEASTERN UTAH, WITH EMPHASIS ON MAPS FOR WATER-RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND LAND-USE PLANNING: LOWE, Mike1, WALLACE, Janae1, KIRBY, Stefan1, and BISHOP, Charles2, (1) Utah Geological Survey, P.O. Box 146100, Salt Lake City, UT 84114-6100, mikelowe@utah.gov, (2) Utah Division of Radiation Control, P.O. Box 144850, Salt Lake City, UT 84114
20-21:20 PM WATER RESOURCE CHALLENGES ASSOCIATED WITH OIL SHALE DEVELOPMENT: COOPER, D. Craig and WOOD, Thomas R., Energy Resoruces Recovery and Managment, Idaho National Laboratory, P.O. Box 1625, MS 2107, Idaho Falls, ID 83415-2107, craig.cooper@inl.gov
20-31:40 PM ASBESTOS, MINERALOGY, TOXICOLOGY, AND TERMINOLOGY: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE PRESENT AND FUTURE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN HEALTH, RESPIRABLE MINERALS, AND REGULATIONS: HALTERMAN, Don, 7366 S. Redwood Rd. #94, West Jordan, UT 84084, dhalterman@vandals.uidaho.edu
20-42:00 PM USE OF A LOW-COST, PARTIALLY-IMMERSIVE, STEREOGRAPHIC PROJECTION, 'GEOWALL' SYSTEM FOR TEACHING GEOSCIENCES TO MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES IN LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS: AN EXAMPLE FROM RADFORD UNIVERSITY, VIRGINIA, U.S.A: SETHI, Parvinder, Department of Geology, Radford Univ, Box - 6939, Radford, VA 24142-6939, psethi@radford.edu
20-52:20 PM COLLABORATIVE APPROACHES THAT BRIDGE SCIENCE AND PUBLIC POLICY: A ROLE FOR GEOSCIENTISTS: TURNER, Christine, U. S. Geol Survey, Federal Center M.S. 939, Box 25046, Denver, CO 80225, cturner@usgs.gov, ZIRBES, Richard, and MCCAFFREY, Maggie, U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution, 130 South Scott Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85701
20-62:40 PM WORKING THROUGH GSA TO IMPACT PUBLIC POLICY; THE MANY WONDERFUL (AB)USES OF GSA POSITION STATEMENTS: BERG, Richard, GSA Geology and Society Division, Illinois State Geological Survey, 615 E. Peabody Drive, Champaign, IL 61820-6918, berg@isgs.uiuc.edu, COOPER, D. Craig, Energy Resources Recovery and Management, Idaho National Laboratory, P.O. Box 1625, MS 2107, Idaho Falls, ID 83415-2107, and DAVIS, James F., Former California State Geol (retired) & Pres. COSMOS, 1355 Brickwell Way, Carmichael, CA 95608

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