2002 Denver Annual Meeting (October 27-30, 2002)

Tuesday, 22 October 2002

1:00 PM-6:30 PM

GSA Field Trip #1: Paleontology and Geology of the Green River Formation, Utah and Wyoming

Wednesday, 23 October 2002

8:00 AM-5:30 PM

GSA Field Trip #2: Middle and Late Jurassic Dinosaur Fossil-Bearing Horizons: Depositional Settings and Implications for Dinosaur Paleoecology, Northeastern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming

Thursday, 24 October 2002

7:30 AM-4:00 PM

GSA Field Trip #5: Key Rocks and Seminal Thinkers: Classic Rocky Mountain Localities That Influenced Tectonic Thought

8:00 AM-6:00 PM

GSA Field Trip #3: Cleanup at Summitville-The Superfund Mine Site That Changed Colorado

GSA Field Trip #4: High Plains to Rio Grande Rift:Late Cenozoic Evolution of Central Colorado

Friday, 25 October 2002

7:30 AM-7:00 PM

GSA Field Trip #9: Structure and Stratigraphy of the Southern Colorado Front Range - Canon City Syncline, Colorado

8:00 AM-5:00 PM

BP/ExxonMobil Sequence Stratigraphy for Graduate Students (Day 1)

GSA Field Trip #7: Formation, Reactivation, and Evolution of Proterozoic Shear Zones in the Colorado Rocky Mountains: From Continental Assembly to Intracontinental Orogeny

GSA Short Course #1: Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility and Applications to Granitic Rocks

GSA Short Course #2: Managing Environmental Projects

8:00 AM-5:30 PM

GSA Guest Hospitality Suite

8:00 AM-6:00 PM

GSA Field Trip #8: Neotectonics of the Rio Grande Rift in Colorado

12:00 PM-1:00 PM

GSA Short Course Luncheon

1:00 PM-7:00 PM

GSA Field Trip #6: Active Incision-Driven Evaporit Tectonism, Glenwood Springs, Colorado

2:00 PM-4:00 PM

GSA Committee on Education

3:00 PM-8:00 PM

MSA Management Committee

Saturday, 26 October 2002

7:00 AM-4:30 PM

Badge Holder and Program Pick-Up Area - Hyatt

Badge Holder and Program Pick-Up Area - Marriott

7:30 AM-8:00 AM

MSA Council Breakfast

7:30 AM-11:30 AM

GSA Geology & Public Policy Committee Meeting **Ticketed Event**

7:30 AM-12:00 PM

GSA Guest Tour: Nature Hike and Bird Watching - Barr Lake State Park

7:30 AM-5:00 PM

GSA Field Trip #10: Borehole Image Logging in Geology and Hydrogeology

7:30 AM-6:00 PM

GSA Field Trip #11: Debris Flows Along the I-70 Coridor, Floyd Hill to the Eisenhower Tunnel

8:00 AM-12:00 PM

GSA Executive Committee Meeting

NAGT Planning Meeting

8:00 AM-4:00 PM

K-16: NAGT Workshop for Graduate Students: Preparing for Teaching and Academic Career

8:00 AM-5:00 PM

BP/ExxonMobil Sequence Stratigraphy for Graduate Students (Day 2)

GSA Field Trip #15: Geologic Reconnaissance of the Denver Front Range and Dinosaur Ridge

GSA Short Course #3: Abrupt Climate Changes

GSA Short Course #5: Laser Ablation ICP-MS: Fundamentals and Applications to Environmental and Biological Samples

GSA Short Course #6: Practical Methods in Applied Contaminant Geochemistry: From Characterization to Remediation

K-12 Field Trip: Geological Reconnaissance of Dinosaur Ridge and Vicinity

K-16 Workshop: Learning from the Fossil Record

MSA Council Meeting

PS Short Course: The Fossil Record of Predation

SEPM Council Meeting

Short Course #4: Estimating Rates of Groundwater Recharge

8:00 AM-6:00 PM

GSA Field Trip #12: Eco-Geo Hike Along the Dakota Hogback North of Boulder, Colorado

GSA Field Trip #13: Environmental and Engineering Geology of the I-70 Corridor Denver-Eisenhower Tunnel

GSA Field Trip #17: Modern-Day Consequences of Historic Coal Mining in the Foothills and Boulder and Weld Counties, Colorado

GSA Field Trip #18: Tepee Buttes: Fossilized Methane-Seep Ecosystems

GSA Foundation Board of Trustees Meeting

Integrated Tectonics Forum

8:00 AM-6:30 PM

GSA Field Trip #16: Laramide Structure and Synorogenic Sedimentation of the Colorado Front Range

8:00 AM-7:00 PM

GSA Field Trip #14: Geoarchaeology of South Park:A Prairie Ecosystem in the Rocky Mountains

8:30 AM-4:00 PM

The Art of Technical Writing: Improving Your Technical Reports

8:30 AM-4:30 PM

K-16: GIS for Earth Science Educators - Workshop I: Introduction to GIS and ArcView 8.1 (ArcGIS) for Geoscience Education

9:00 AM-12:00 PM

Professional Licensing for Geologists: How Does It Affect You?

9:00 AM-2:00 PM

K-16 Workshop: The Science of Rock Climbing: Geology and Physics

9:00 AM-4:00 PM

US National Committee for the Geological Sciences

12:00 PM-1:00 PM

GSA Short Course Luncheon

MSA Council Lunch

12:00 PM-5:00 PM

GSA Employment Interview Service

GSA Engineering Geology Division Management Board Meeting

12:00 PM-5:30 PM

NABGG Executive Team Meeting

12:15 PM-1:15 PM

GSA Session Chair Orientation

GSA Student Presentation Coordinator Training Session

1:00 PM-3:00 PM

GSA Employment Opportunities in the Geological Sciences - Roundtable Discussions

1:00 PM-5:00 PM

GSA Council Meeting - Day 1

NAGT Council Meeting

Special Meeting on the Preservation of Geoscience Data and Collections

1:30 PM-4:30 PM

K-16 Workshop: Writing K-14 Grant Proposals to the National Science Foundation

5:00 PM-6:00 PM

MSA Council Dinner

5:30 PM-7:30 PM

GSA Educator's Social Hour

5:30 PM-10:30 PM

Dinner and Colorado Symphony

6:00 PM-6:30 PM

SEG Program Steering Committee Meeting

6:00 PM-9:00 PM

Antarctic Geosciences Reception

6:30 PM-8:00 PM

SEG Program Committee Meeting with Lite Dinner Buffet

7:00 PM-9:00 PM

Division Chairs Meeting

7:00 PM-10:00 PM

NABGG Reception

7:30 PM-11:00 PM

PS Outgoing Council

Sunday, 27 October 2002

7:00 AM-8:30 AM

GSA Audit Committee Meeting

GSA President's Student Breakfast

7:00 AM-9:00 AM

GSA Committee Chair Leadership Workshop

GSA Hydrogeology Division Management Board Meeting

SEG - 100th AV Committee Meeting

8:00 AM-12:00 PM

AGI Executive Committee Meeting

8:00 AM-4:00 PM

GSA Guest Tour: Vail Adventures

8:00 AM-5:00 PM

K-16 Workshop: Earthquakes -- A One Day Workshop for College Faculty

8:30 AM-11:30 AM

GIS Executive Board

8:30 AM-12:00 PM

GSA Investment Committee Meeting

8:30 AM-4:00 PM

K-16 Workshop: Proposal Writing Strategies for Faculty at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions

8:30 AM-4:30 PM

K-16: GIS for Earth Science Educators - Workshop II: Hands-on GIS Workshop: Intermediate ArcGIS using Spatial, 3-D and Geostatistics Extensions

9:00 AM-4:00 PM

K-16: Online and Interactive But Not Inefficient: Creating Low-Maintenance Interactive Web Resources

9:30 AM-12:00 PM

GSA Publications Committee

11:30 AM-2:00 PM

NAGT and GSA Geoscience Education Division Luncheon and Awards **Ticketed Event**

12:00 PM-1:00 PM

GSA Session Chair Orientation

GSA Student Presentation Coordinator Training Session

Hot Topic #1: Water Allocation in the West — How Much Do We Need, Where Should It Go?

12:00 PM-1:30 PM

NABGG Scholarship Awards Luncheon **Ticketed Event**

PS Education and Outreach Committee

12:00 PM-2:00 PM

SEG Publications Board Meeting

12:00 PM-5:00 PM

GSA Guest Tour: Antique and Design Market and Tattered Cover Book Store

1:00 PM-6:00 PM

North American Commission on Stratigraphic Nomenclature Meeting

1:30 PM-3:30 PM

GIS GeoRef Users Group

1:30 PM-4:30 PM

K-16 Workshop: Exploring Plate Tectonics: A Hands-on Approach

2:00 PM-5:00 PM

NABGG Business Meeting

2:00 PM-5:30 PM

SEG Executive Committee Meeting

2:30 PM-3:30 PM

GSA Photo Shoot for Presidential Address and Awards Ceremony

3:00 PM-4:00 PM

Discussion of the Future of Low-Temperature Geochemistry at NSF

GSA Penrose Conferences Committee Meeting

3:30 PM-4:30 PM

Friends of Two-Year Colleges Social

4:00 PM-5:30 PM

Northeastern Section Managment Board Meeting

4:00 PM-6:00 PM

Council on Undergraduate Research Business Meeting

GSA Presidential Address and Awards Ceremony

4:00 PM-9:00 PM

6:00 PM-8:00 PM

GSA Welcoming Party/Exhibit Opening

7:00 PM-9:00 PM

Paleobiology Database Annual GSA Meeting

7:00 PM-10:00 PM

GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division Management Board Meeting

7:30 PM-8:30 PM

AGI Past Presidents and Guests Reception

8:00 PM-9:30 PM

PS Hosting ANAPS

8:30 PM-10:00 PM

AGI Past Presidents and Guests Dinner

8:30 PM-10:30 PM

St. Lawrence Geology Alumni Gathering

Monday, 28 October 2002

6:30 AM-8:30 AM

AWG Breakfast and Outstanding Educator Award Celebration **Ticketed Event**

7:00 AM-9:00 AM

GSA Associated and Allied Societies Breakfast Meeting

Keck Geology Consortium Alumni Breakfast

NAGT Past Presidents Breakfast

7:30 AM-9:30 AM

MSA President's Breakfast

8:00 AM-12:00 PM

IEE Workshop: Rational Science for Rational Policy: Geology in Service of Society Through Communications with Government and Media

8:00 AM-12:30 PM

AGI Member Society Council Meeting

8:00 AM-4:00 PM

GSA Guest Tour: Rocky Mountain National Park - Estes Park

8:30 AM-12:00 PM

NAGT Executive Committee

9:00 AM-2:00 PM

GSA Guest Tour: Foothills Mountain Tour - Coors Brewery

9:30 AM-12:00 PM

WITS - Web Integrated Time Scale

10:00 AM-11:00 AM

GSA Guest Seminar: The Art of Coffee and Espresso - A Coffee Lovers Workshop

11:30 AM-1:00 PM

GSA Geology in Government Mentor Luncheon

GSA Past President's Luncheon

11:30 AM-1:30 PM

GSA History of Geology Division Lunch **Ticketed Event**

11:30 AM-5:30 PM

PS Reception, Luncheon, Awards, Business Meeting **Ticketed Event**

12:00 PM-1:30 PM

GIS Luncheon **Ticketed Event**

12:00 PM-2:00 PM

American Mineralogist Associate Editor's Lunch

GSA Geology Editorial Board Meeting

12:00 PM-3:00 PM

American Quaternary Association Council Meeting

12:15 PM-1:15 PM

GSA Session Chair Orientation

GSA Student Presentation Coordinator Training Session

Hot Topic #2: The First Life on Earth — The Bacterial Garden of Eden

1:00 PM-4:00 PM

AGI Foundation Trustees Meeting

1:00 PM-6:00 PM

Cushman Foundation Board Meeting

1:30 PM-4:30 PM

GIS Business Meeting

1:30 PM-5:30 PM

Consortium of Universities for Advancement of Hydrologic Sciences

2:00 PM-4:00 PM

AGI Earth Science Week Planning Meeting

GSA Committee on Minorities and Women Meeting

2:00 PM-5:30 PM

SEG Council Meeting

3:30 PM-4:30 PM

GSA SSSA Joint Meeting Planning Group

3:30 PM-5:00 PM

NAGT/USGS Cooperative Summer Field Training

4:30 PM-5:30 PM

GSA-Geological Society of Australia 2004 Convention Meeting

Michel T. Halbouty Distinguished Lecture

5:00 PM-6:00 PM

Friends of the Cambrian

5:00 PM-7:00 PM

Amherst College Alumni Reception

Friends of the Paleontological Research Institution

GSA-SC Management Board Meeting

SEPM/NAMS Marine Micropaleontology Research Group

Stanford University Alumni Reception

5:30 PM-7:00 PM

Friends of the Ordovician

5:30 PM-7:30 PM

GSA Limnogeology Division Business Meeting

HESS Board Meeting (Officers and Councilors)

5:30 PM-8:00 PM

LSU Geology Alumni & Friends Reception

5:30 PM-9:00 PM

Friends of Ian Kaplan

5:45 PM-6:45 PM

GSA Joint Technical Program Committee

5:45 PM-7:00 PM

GSA Coal Geology Division Awards Reception

6:00 PM-10:00 PM

Environmental and Engineering GeoScience Editorial Board

6:30 PM-8:00 PM

Carleton College Alumni Reception

6:30 PM-8:30 PM

Brigham Young University Alumni Reception

7:00 PM-9:00 PM

SUNY College at Oneonta Private Alumni Reception

University of Tennessee Alumni Reception

University of Wyoming Alumni Reception

Williams College Alumni Reception

7:00 PM-9:30 PM

Appalachian State University

Bowling Green State University

Bucknell University

Case Western Reserve University

College of William and Mary

Colorado College

Colorado School of Mines

Dartmouth College

Dickinson College

Duke University

Earlham College

Fort Lewis College

Franklin and Marshall College

GSA Group Alumni Party

Indiana University Alumni Reception

Iowa State University

Juniata College

Kansas State University

Miami University

Michigan State University Alumni Reception

Middlebury College

Northern Arizona University

Northern Illinois University

Oberlin College

Ohio Wesleyan University

Oregon State University/University of Oregon Alumni Reception

Purdue University Alumni Reception

Rice University

Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Syracuse University

The College of Wooster

Trinity University

U.S. Geological Survey

University of Cincinnati

University of Delaware

University of Florida

University of Iowa

University of Kentucky

University of Missouri - Columbia

University of Missouri - Rolla

University of Montana

University of Nebraska

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

University of North Dakota

University of Northern Iowa

University of Oklahoma

University of South Florida

University of Southern California Alumni Reception

University of Texas at Austin Alumni Reception

University of Texas at El Paso

University of Utah

University of Wisconsin Alumni Reception

Wellesley College

Western Michigan University

Wheaton, Calvin and Hope Colleges

7:00 PM-10:00 PM

New Mexico and Other Rift-Located Universities Alumni Reception

Northwestern University and University of Chicago Alumni Reception

University of Colorado Alumni Reception

University of Illinois Alumni Reception

University of Minnesota - All Campuses Alumni Reception

Washington University - St. Louis - Alumni Reception

7:30 PM-9:00 PM

Penn State University Alumni Reception

7:30 PM-9:30 PM

Colorado State University Alumni Reception

7:30 PM-10:00 PM

Ohio State University Alumni Reception

University of Arizona Alumni Reception

Yale University and Harvard University Alumni Reception

7:30 PM-11:00 PM

University of Michigan Alumni Reception

8:00 PM-10:00 PM

The University of Kansas Alumni Reception

8:00 PM-10:30 PM

Reception for MSA Roebling Medalist, Werner Schreyer

8:00 PM-11:00 PM

Binghamton University Alumni Reception

UMASS - Amherst Alumni Reception

9:30 PM-11:59 PM

University of California Alumni Reception

Tuesday, 29 October 2002

6:30 AM-7:30 AM

GSA Field Trip Chairs Meeting

7:00 AM-8:30 AM

GSA Archaeological Geology Division Management Board Meeting

GSA Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Advisory Committee

7:00 AM-12:00 PM

AASG Mid-year Business Meeting

8:00 AM-12:00 PM

AGI Environmental Geoscience Advisory Committee Meeting

GSA Sedimentary Geology Division Management Board Meeting

8:00 AM-5:00 PM

GSA Guest Tour: Colorado Springs Tour - USAFA, Garden of the Gods, U.S. Olympic Training Center

8:30 AM-11:30 AM

GIS Digital Forum

9:00 AM-11:00 AM

Executive Board Meeting of GeoCorps America Partners

9:00 AM-2:00 PM

GSA Guest Tour: Denver Botanic Gardens & Denver Zoo

10:00 AM-11:00 AM

GSA Guest Seminar: Victorian Fashion Show - The Mountain Man and the Missus

10:00 AM-11:30 AM

Earth System Processes II Steering Committee Meeting

10:00 AM-2:30 PM

GSA Guest Tour: Dinosaur Ridge Tour

11:00 AM-12:00 PM

Richard Jahns Distinguised Lecture

11:00 AM-1:00 PM

AWG Job Hunting in the Geosciences

11:30 AM-12:00 PM

SEG Luncheon Reception

11:30 AM-1:00 PM

GSA Structural Geology & Tectonics Division Management Board Luncheon

12:00 PM-1:00 PM

GSA Earth Scientists on Capitol Hill

12:00 PM-2:00 PM

GSA Bulletin Associate Editors Meeting

SEG Luncheon **Ticketed Event**

12:00 PM-3:00 PM

GSA Hydrogeology Division Reception, Luncheon, Awards, and Business Meeting **Ticketed Event**

12:15 PM-1:15 PM

GSA Session Chair Orientation

GSA Student Presentation Coordinator Training Session

Hot Topic #3: Earth Sciences in K-12 Education — Are Good Standards Enough?

12:30 PM-2:30 PM

MSA Awards Lunch **Ticketed Event**

12:30 PM-3:00 PM

GSA Engineering Geology Division Luncheon **Ticketed Event**

12:30 PM-5:00 PM

GSA Field Trip #19: Tour of U.S. Geological Survey Mapping and Geologic Facilities, Denver Federal Center

1:00 PM-2:30 PM

GSA Coal Geology Division Business Meeting

1:00 PM-5:00 PM

GSA Council Meeting - Day 2

1:30 PM-3:30 PM

GIS Collection Development Issues Forum

2:00 PM-3:00 PM

GSA Section Chairs Meeting

2:00 PM-4:00 PM

AGI Member Society K-12 Education Forum

2:00 PM-5:00 PM

SEG Foundation Trustees Meeting

2:00 PM-7:00 PM

PS Incoming Council

4:00 PM-5:00 PM

GSA Hydrogeology Division Birdsall-Dreiss Lecture

4:00 PM-5:30 PM

MSA Presidential Address and Annual Business Meeting

5:00 PM-6:30 PM

GSA Hydrogeology Division Student Reception

5:00 PM-7:00 PM

GSA History of Geology Division Student Reception

GSA International Division Business Meeting and Reception

5:00 PM-7:30 PM

GSA Planetary Geology Division Business Meeting

5:30 PM-6:30 PM

GSA Geophysics Division Annual Business Meeting

GSA Structural Geology & Tectonics Division Business Meeting

Informational Meeting on the Cosmic-Ray-prOduced Nuclide Systematics on Earth (CRONUS-Earth) Project

SEG Student/Member Happy Hour

5:30 PM-7:30 PM

Friends of AGI Reception and Awards Ceremony

Friends of the Corals and Sponges

GSA Archaeological Geology Division Business Meeting

MSA - Geochemical Society Joint Reception **Ticketed Event**

5:30 PM-8:00 PM

GSA Foundation Senior Fellows Reception **By Invitation Only - Ticketed Event**

Reception for the Speakers and Friends of the Pardee Symposium, Evolution of the Early Atmosphere

5:45 PM-7:15 PM

GSA Sedimentary Geology Division Business Meeting

6:00 PM-8:00 PM

National Geologic Map Database

Ocean Drilling Program Town Meeting

6:30 PM-8:00 PM

GSA Structural Geology & Tectonics and Geophysics Divisions Joint Reception

6:30 PM-8:30 PM

GLBT Geoscientists Reception

7:00 PM-8:30 PM

NAGT Early Career Faculty Social

7:00 PM-10:00 PM

GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division Annual Awards Ceremony

SEG Past Presidents Dinner

SEPM Carbonate Research Group

7:00 PM-11:00 PM

Cushman Foundation Award Ceremony Reception

7:30 PM-9:30 PM

Friends of Antarctica

8:00 PM-10:00 PM

Affiliation of Christian Geologists Reception and Discussion

9:00 PM-1:00 AM

MIT and Cal Tech Alumni Reception

Wednesday, 30 October 2002

7:00 AM-9:00 AM

AJS Editorial Board Breakfast

GSA Hydrogeology Division Management Board Meeting

8:00 AM-9:00 AM

GSA Corporate Meeting

8:30 AM-10:30 AM

GIS Preservation Forum

9:00 AM-6:00 PM

Roraima Discussion Group

10:00 AM-11:00 AM

GSA Guest Seminar: A Colorado History Lesson

12:15 PM-1:15 PM

Hot Topic #4: Rebuilding Afghanistan — Is a Wealth of Natural Resources Sufficient?

1:00 PM-5:00 PM

AGI GeoRef Advisory Committee Meeting

1:30 PM-3:30 PM

GIS Professional Issues Forum

7:00 PM-10:00 PM

Friends of Sherlock Holmes

Thursday, 31 October 2002

6:00 AM-8:30 PM

GSA Field Trip #24: Structural Geometry and Thermal History of Pseudotachylyte from the Homestake Shear Zone, Sawatch Range, Colorado

7:00 AM-10:00 PM

GSA Field Trip #20: Permian-Triassic Depositional Systems, Paleogeography, Paleoclimate, and Hydrocarbon Resources in Canyonlands and Monument Valley, Utah

7:30 AM-8:00 PM

GSA Field Trip #22: Consequences of Living with Geology: A Model Field Trip for the General Public

7:30 AM-9:30 PM

GSA Field Trip #23: Field Trip to Glenwood Caverns-Fairy Cave, Glenwood Springs, Colorado: An Introduction to CO2 and H2S Speleogenesis

8:30 AM-5:00 PM

GSA Field Trip #21: Approaches to Characterizing Complex Geology for Watershed Investigations in Fractured Crystalline Bedrock: The Idealized and the Reality