Technical Sessions

  THURSDAY
1 November
FRIDAY
2 November
SATURDAY
3 November
SUNDAY
4 November
MONDAY
5 November
TUESDAY
6 November
WEDNESDAY
7 November
THURSDAY
8 November
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Discipline Sessions             Archaeological Geology
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Environmental Geoscience I
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Geochemistry: Advances in Low-Temperature and Isotope Geochemistry
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Paleontology: Diversity, Macroevolution and Macroecology
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Precambrian Geology
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Geomicrobiology (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:30 PM
Geophysics: Advances in Characterizing the Earth using Geophysical Techniques—From the Near-Surface to the Deep Earth (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:30 PM
Hydrogeology (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:30 PM
Paleoclimatology/Paleoceanography (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:30 PM
Paleontology: Descriptive Paleontology, Biogeography, and Biostratigraphy (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:30 PM
Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:30 PM
Recent Advances in Geoscience Education (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:30 PM
History & Philosophy of Geology: 1886 Charleston Earthquake, Carolina Gold Rush and Other Topics
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Insights in Geochemistry
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Paleontology: Morphological Trends
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Petroleum Geology: Past to Present, From the Appalachias to China, Pore Size to Basin Scale Topics
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Carbonates in Time and Space: Sedimentology, Stratigraphy, and Diagenesis
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Geoscience Education: EarthScope, Outreach, & Program Evaluation
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Marine/Coastal Science I: Salt Marshes and Coastal Deposits
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Paleontology: Extinction, Origination and Recovery
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Carbonates in Time and Space: Sedimentology, Stratigraphy, and Diagenesis (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Economic Geology (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Marine/Coastal Science (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Paleontology: Morphological Evolution & Morphology and Systematics (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Precambrian Geology (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Paleoseismology of the North American Plate and Boundaries
1:30 PM-3:30 PM
Hydrogeology I: Rock Properties and Physical Processes
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Paleontology: Reconstructing Ecosystems
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Global Tectonics: From Rifting to Collision
3:45 PM-5:30 PM
GSA Hydrogeology Division: Henry Darcy Distinguished Lecture
5:00 PM-6:00 PM
Hydrogeology II: Groundwater Management
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Environmental Geoscience (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Geochemistry (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Paleontology: Taphonomy, Paleoecology, and Diversity Dynamics (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Planetary Geology (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Public Policy and Geoscience Information/Communication: Get Their Attention! Communicating Geoscience Outside of the Ivory Tower (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Recent Advances in Stratigraphy (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Geoscience Education: Innovative Approaches to Geoscience Education in Formal and Informal Settings
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Marine/Coastal Science II: Sea Level and General Marine
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Recent Advances in Geology & Health
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Mineralogical Society of America (MSA) Awards Lectures, Presidential Address, and Annual Business Meeting
3:00 PM-5:30 PM
GSA Hydrogeology Division: Birdsall-Dreiss Distinguished Lecture
4:30 PM-5:30 PM
Advances in Mineralogy and Petrology
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Environmental Geoscience II
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Innovative Approaches in Structural Geology
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Paleontology: Modern Analogues and Reconstructing Behavior
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Advances in Petrology and Mineralogy (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Cordilleran Tectonics: Rio Grande Rift, Rockies, and Basin and Range (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Engineering Geology (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Paleoseismology of the North American Plate and Boundaries (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Remote Sensing/Geographic Information Systems (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Sediments, Clastic (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Structural Geology (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Tectonics of Africa, the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Volcanology (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Economic Geology
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Engineering Geology
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Paleontology: Biostratigraphy and Taphonomy
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Recent Advances in Stratigraphy
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
 
Field Trips Igneous Activity, Metamorphism, and Deformation in the Mount Rogers Area, SW Virginia and NW North Carolina: A Geologic Record of Precambrian Tectonic Evolution of the Southern Blue Ridge Province
8:00 AM-6:00 PM
The Neoacadian Orogenic Core of the Southern Appalachians: A Geo-Traverse Through the Migmatitic Inner Piedmont From the Brushy Mountains to Lincolnton, North Carolina
5:00 PM-5:05 PM
Neoproterozoic to Mesozoic Petrologic and Ductile-Brittle Structural Relationships Along the Alleghanian Nutbush Creek Fault Zone and Deep River Triassic Basin in North Carolina
7:00 AM-6:30 PM
Hydrology field research in the Congaree River Floodplain: Engaged learning about research, resource management, and education at Congaree National Park
7:30 AM-6:00 PM
The New Madrid Seismic Zone ***CANCELLED***
7:30 AM-7:00 PM
The Early-Middle Mississippian Borden-Grainger-Ft. Payne Delta/Basin Complex: Field Evidence for Delta Sedimentation, Basin Starvation, Mud-Mound Genesis, and Tectonism during the Neoacadian Orogeny ***CANCELLED***
8:00 AM-6:00 PM
Traversing Suspect Terranes in the Central Virginia Piedmont: From Proterozoic Anorthosites to Modern Earthquakes
8:00 AM-9:00 PM
  Disequilibrium in Landscape Evolution of the Southern Appalachian Mountains
7:00 AM-6:00 PM
Historic Mill Ponds & Piedmont Stream Water Quality: Making the Connection near Raleigh, North Carolina
8:30 AM-9:00 PM
              Kirk Bryan Field Trip: Piedmont Potpourris: New Perspectives on An Old Landscape (and Some of its Younger Parts)
8:00 AM-7:00 PM
Significance of the Geology of the Talladega Belt to Southern Appalachian Tectonics ***CANCELLED***
4:00 PM-9:00 PM
Geology, Geography and Environment of Viticulture in the Upper Hiwassee River Basin, Southwestern North Carolina and Northern Georgia – Terroir of An Emerging American Wine-Producing Area ***CANCELLED***
5:00 PM-8:00 PM
Of Mushwads and Mayhem: Disharmonically Deformed Gas Shale in the Southern Appalachian Thrust Belt ***CANCELLED***
7:00 PM-7:05 PM
The Fractured Foundation of the Post-Orogenic (Mesozoic-Cenozoic) Southern Appalachian Piedmont and Coastal Plain in Georgia and South Carolina
7:00 PM-7:05 PM
Late Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology of Floodplain Deposits in Congaree National Park
7:30 AM-5:00 PM
The Great 1886 Charleston Earthquake: Visible Damage from the Largest United States Earthquake of the 1800s
8:00 AM-2:30 PM
Stratigraphy, Paleontology, and Geological Resources of the Upper Triassic Newark Supergroup Basins, North Carolina and Southern Virginia
8:00 AM-3:30 PM
Geology of Ediacaran-Earliest Cambrian Rocks of the Western Carolina Terrane in South Carolina
8:00 AM-5:00 PM
Non-Technical Events Field Trip Check In Desk
6:00 AM-11:00 AM
  GSA Geology and Public Policy Committee Meeting
8:00 AM-5:00 PM
Short Course 501: New Developments in Fluorescence Spectroscopy to Characterize Dissolved Organic Matter
8:00 AM-5:00 PM
Short Course 502: Sequence Stratigraphy for Graduate Students
8:00 AM-5:00 PM
Short Course 503: Field Safety Leadership
8:00 AM-5:00 PM
Short Course 504: Introduction to Petroleum Structural Geology
8:00 AM-5:00 PM
Short Course 505: Volcanic Crisis Awareness
8:00 AM-5:00 PM
Short Course 506: Structural and Stratigraphic Concepts Applied to Basin Exploration
9:00 AM-5:00 PM
GSA Audit Committee Meeting
12:00 PM-4:00 PM
Mineralogical Society of America (MSA) Executive Committee Meeting
3:30 PM-7:30 PM
Mineralogical Society of America (MSA) Council Breakfast
7:30 AM-8:00 AM
Sigma Gamma Epsilon (SGE) Biennial Convention
7:45 AM-4:45 PM
GSA Council Meeting - Day 1
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Short Course 505: Volcanic Crisis Awareness
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Short Course 511A: Active Lectures in Classrooms of All Sizes
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Short Course 511B: Teaching about Hazards in the Geoscience Classroom
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Short Course 515: Education Research I: Conducting Qualitative Geoscience Education Research
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Short Course 516: An Inquiry Approach to Teaching Plate Tectonics
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Short Course 521: Recalling Optical Mineralogy: Teaching it with Newer Methods and its Role in Current Mineralogy Research
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Short Course 507: Best Practices for Preparing Workforce and Transfer Students in Two-Year Colleges for Geoscience Careers
8:00 AM-4:00 PM
GSA Foundation Board of Trustees' Meeting
8:00 AM-5:00 PM
Mineralogical Society of America (MSA) Council Meeting
8:00 AM-5:00 PM
Short Course 502: Sequence Stratigraphy for Graduate Students
8:00 AM-5:00 PM
Short Course 503: Field Safety Leadership
8:00 AM-5:00 PM
Short Course 504: Introduction to Petroleum Structural Geology
8:00 AM-5:00 PM
Short Course 508: Instructional Approaches to Access, Accommodation, and Inclusion of Students with Disabilities in the Geosciences
8:00 AM-5:00 PM
Short Course 509: Near-Surface Geophysics for Non-Geophysicists
8:00 AM-5:00 PM
Short Course 510: Estimating Groundwater Recharge
8:00 AM-5:00 PM
Short Course 512: Using the Grand Challenges to Improve Instruction of Scientific Literacy and Quantitative Reasoning-CANCELLED
8:00 AM-5:00 PM
Short Course 513: Research Initiatives in Northern Hemisphere Quaternary Non-Marine Ostracoda, Workshop II
8:00 AM-5:00 PM
Short Course 514: Rationale and Methods for Regional 3-D Geological Mapping by Geological Survey Agencies-CANCELLED
8:00 AM-5:00 PM
Paleontological Society (PS) Short Course: Reconstructing Earth’s Deep-Time Climate: The State of the Art in 2012
8:30 AM-5:30 PM
Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM) Council Meeting
8:30 AM-5:30 PM
Short Course 506: Structural and Stratigraphic Concepts Applied to Basin Exploration
9:00 AM-5:00 PM
Short Course 517: U-Pb Geochronology and Hf Isotope Geochemistry Applied to Detrital Minerals
9:00 AM-5:00 PM
Assembling the Echinoderm Tree of Life PI Meeting (AEToL)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
GSA Science Editor Summit
10:00 AM-12:00 PM
Mineralogical Society of America (MSA) Council Lunch
12:00 PM-1:00 PM
GSA Publications Committee
12:00 PM-3:00 PM
Karst Waters Institute (KWI) Business Meeting
12:00 PM-4:00 PM
American Geosciences Institute (AGI) Geoscience Policy Meeting
1:00 PM-5:00 PM
GSA Division Chairs Business Meeting
1:00 PM-5:00 PM
Short Course 511C: Making the Invisible Visible: Assessing Higher Order Thinking in your Students
1:00 PM-5:00 PM
Short Course 511D: Design an Effective Field Experience
1:00 PM-5:00 PM
Short Course 518: Using a Constructivist Approach to Teach Rocks
1:00 PM-5:00 PM
Short Course 519: Mars for Earthlings: Teaching Modules Integrating Earth and Planetary Science
1:00 PM-5:00 PM
Short Course 520: Getting Started in Undergraduate Research for New and Future Faculty
1:00 PM-5:00 PM
Short Course 522: Communicating Science: Tools for Scientists
1:00 PM-5:00 PM
Short Course 523: Education Research II: Conducting Quantitative Geoscience Education Research
1:00 PM-5:00 PM
Short Course 524: Quantitative Literacy and Geology in the National Parks
1:00 PM-5:00 PM
GSA Session Chair Orientation
3:00 PM-4:00 PM
GSA Student Volunteer Technical Program Orientation
3:00 PM-4:00 PM
Newsroom
3:00 PM-5:00 PM
Charlotte Icebreaker
5:00 PM-7:00 PM
Keck Geology Consortium
7:00 PM-9:00 PM
GSA President's Student Breakfast
7:00 AM-8:30 AM
Newsroom
7:30 AM-6:00 PM
National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT) Executive Committee Meeting
8:00 AM-10:00 AM
American Geosciences Institute (AGI) Executive Committee Meeting
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Short Course 525: Terrestrial Laser Scanning (Ground-Based LiDAR) Methods and Applications in Geologic Research & Education
8:00 AM-5:00 PM
GSA International Section Management Board Business Meeting
8:30 AM-12:30 PM
"Switch" Film Showings
9:00 AM-11:00 AM
GSA Local Tour #1: "A Day with the Queen" Charlotte City Tour
9:00 AM-12:00 PM
Geoscience Information Society (GSIS) Business Meeting
9:00 AM-12:00 PM
Short Course 526: Introductory Remote Sensing for Geoscientists
9:00 AM-5:00 PM
Short Course 527: X-Ray Diffraction in Geosciences
9:00 AM-5:00 PM
Short Course 528: Engaging ALL Students: Effective Strategies for Teaching Diverse College Students
9:00 AM-5:00 PM
Micropaleontology Project Board of Directors
9:30 AM-12:00 PM
Geology and Lithosphere Editorial Board Meeting
10:00 AM-12:00 PM
Geosphere Associate Editor Meeting
10:00 AM-12:00 PM
National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT) Council Meeting
10:15 AM-12:00 PM
GSA Hydrogeology Division Management Board Meeting I
11:00 AM-1:00 PM
GSA Lunchtime Lecture #1: GSA Presidential Address & President's Medal Presentation
12:15 PM-1:15 PM
GSA Session Chair Orientation
12:15 PM-1:15 PM
GSA Student Volunteer Technical Program Orientation
12:15 PM-1:15 PM
GSA Foundation Development Committee Meeting-CANCELLED
1:00 PM-4:00 PM
GSA Local Tour #2: Charlotte Historic Home Tour
1:00 PM-5:00 PM
American Geosciences Institute (AGI) GeoRef Advisory Committee Meeting
1:00 PM-6:00 PM
Cushman Foundation (CF) Board of Directors Meeting
1:00 PM-6:00 PM
Navigating NSF Workshop: Learn about new NSF initiatives and updates on the merit review process
1:30 PM-4:30 PM
GSA Education Committee Meeting
2:00 PM-4:00 PM
National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT) and USGS Internship Meeting
2:00 PM-4:00 PM
GSA Exhibits
2:00 PM-6:00 PM
GSA Bookstore
2:00 PM-6:30 PM
GSA Connected Community-Networking Lounge
2:00 PM-6:30 PM
GSA Headquarters- Foundation area
2:00 PM-6:30 PM
GSA Big Horn Basin Alumni Reception
2:30 PM-3:30 PM
Bill McKibben Lecture - "Getting Serious about Climate Change"
3:00 PM-4:15 PM
Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) Geoscience Division Business Meeting
3:00 PM-5:00 PM
GSA Bookstore Author Event
4:30 PM-6:30 PM
GSA Exhibit Opening Reception
4:30 PM-6:30 PM
GSA Women in Geology Mentor Program
5:00 PM-6:30 PM
Elsevier Reception
5:00 PM-7:00 PM
GSA Geoscience Education Division & National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT) Research Interest Group Reception
5:30 PM-6:30 PM
National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT) Geo2YC Division Meeting
5:30 PM-6:30 PM
GSA Networking with Policy Fellows
5:30 PM-7:00 PM
Paleontological Society (PS) Annual Meeting and Awards Reception **Ticketed Event**
5:30 PM-8:30 PM
GSA 2-Year Geoscience Faculty Reception
6:30 PM-8:00 PM
GSA Geoscience Educators' Social Reception
6:30 PM-8:00 PM
Affiliation of Christian Geologists Reception and Discussion
7:00 PM-9:00 PM
GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division Board Meeting
7:00 PM-9:00 PM
Ad hoc rocks and hops, the GSA GeoSocioPolicy Soiree
7:00 PM-10:00 PM
American Geosciences Institute (AGI) Past President Reception and Dinner
7:00 PM-10:00 PM
Association for Women Geoscientists (AWG) Networking Breakfast & Awards Ceremony **Ticketed Event**
6:30 AM-8:30 AM
GSA Archaeological Geology Division Executive Committee Meeting
7:00 AM-8:00 AM
GSA JTPC Roundtable Breakfast
7:00 AM-8:30 AM
Mineralogical Society of America (MSA) President's Breakfast
7:00 AM-9:00 AM
National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT) Past Presidents Breakfast
7:15 AM-9:15 AM
Joint AGI/GSA Associated Societies Meeting (Breakfast Meeting)
7:30 AM-12:00 PM
Newsroom
7:30 AM-6:00 PM
GSA Bulletin Associate Editor Meeting
8:00 AM-9:30 AM
Workshop: Rates of soil forming processes - achievements, challenges, research gaps
8:30 AM-4:30 PM
"Switch" Film Showings
9:00 AM-11:00 AM
GSA Sedimentary Geology Division Executive Committee Meeting
9:00 AM-11:00 AM
GSA Bookstore
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
GSA Connected Community-Networking Lounge
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
GSA Exhibits
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
GSA Headquarters- Foundation area
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
GSA Guest Seminar #1: Teri Joelle - Living History Artist
9:30 AM-10:30 AM
GSA EarthPD Meeting
10:00 AM-11:00 AM
GSA Geology in Government Mentor Luncheon
11:30 AM-1:00 PM
GSA Student Networking Luncheon
11:30 AM-1:00 PM
GSA eGSA Committee Meeting
11:30 AM-1:00 PM
GSA Geology and Society Division Management Board Meeting
11:45 AM-1:30 PM
GSA Section Secretaries Lunch Meeting
12:00 PM-1:30 PM
Mineralogical Society of America (MSA) Associated Editors Lunch
12:00 PM-2:00 PM
GSA Diversity in the Geosciences Committee Meeting
12:00 PM-2:30 PM
Belmont Forum: Listening Session for Potential Future International Opportunity Fund Call for Proposals on Data and E-Infrastructures
12:15 PM-1:15 PM
GSA Lunchtime Lecture #2: GSA Awards Ceremony
12:15 PM-1:15 PM
GSA Session Chair Orientation
12:15 PM-1:15 PM
GSA Student Volunteer Technical Program Orientation
12:15 PM-1:15 PM
GSA Environmental and Engineering Geology Division Management Board Meeting
1:00 PM-5:00 PM
North American Commission on Stratigraphic Nomenclature Annual Meeting
1:00 PM-5:30 PM
GSA 125th Anniversary Committee Meeting
1:30 PM-3:00 PM
Geoscience Information Society (GSIS) Professional Issues Forum
1:30 PM-3:30 PM
GSA Local Tour #3: Reed Gold Mine Adventure
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
GSA Gold Medal Lectures
2:00 PM-3:30 PM
GSA Watercolor & Wine
2:30 PM-4:30 PM
McGraw-Hill GeoSciences Social Event
3:30 PM-5:30 PM
Environmental and Engineering Geoscience Editorial Board Meeting
4:30 PM-6:00 PM
Association for Women Geoscientists (AWG) Discussion of Issues Facing Women Chairs, Deans, and Other Academic Leaders
5:00 PM-6:00 PM
GSA Academic & Applied Geoscience Relations Committee Meeting
5:00 PM-6:00 PM
Henry Darcy Distinguished Lecture
5:00 PM-6:00 PM
GSA GeoCorps Alumni Reception
5:00 PM-6:30 PM
Amherst College Geology Alumni Reception
5:00 PM-7:00 PM
Friends of American Geosciences Institute (AGI) Reception
5:00 PM-7:00 PM
Stanford Earth Sciences Alumni Reception
5:00 PM-7:00 PM
University of Delaware Alumni Reception
5:00 PM-7:00 PM
Friends of Paleontological Research Institution (PRI) Reception
5:30 PM-6:30 PM
Friends of the Cambrian
5:30 PM-7:00 PM
National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT)-Journal of Geoscience Education (JGE) Editorial Board Meeting
5:30 PM-7:00 PM
Indiana University Alumni Reception
5:30 PM-7:30 PM
Williams College Alumni Gathering
5:30 PM-7:30 PM
Tomorrow’s Paleontology, Today: The Paleontological Society’s Schuchert Talk and Student Social
5:30 PM-8:00 PM
University of Illinois Department of Geology
5:30 PM-9:30 PM
GSA Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Petrology, and Volcanology Division Business Meeting
5:45 PM-6:15 PM
GSA Geophysics Division Social and Business Time
5:45 PM-6:45 PM
Pardee Keynote 5 Reception
5:45 PM-7:00 PM
Seds & Suds Town Hall - Sedimentary Geology: What’s in it for the Next Generation?
5:45 PM-7:00 PM
GSA Archaeological Geology Division Business Meeting and Awards Reception
5:45 PM-7:45 PM
GSA Subaru Outdoor Life Lecture, Julie Brigham-Grette, "Driven to Extremes-The Roadless Pursuit of Scientific Drilling at El'gygytgyn Crater Lake, Arctic Russia"
6:00 PM-7:00 PM
The University of Texas at Austin Jackson School of Geosciences Alumni and Friends Reception
6:00 PM-8:00 PM
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
6:00 PM-8:00 PM
University of South Florida Geology Department/Geology Alumni Society Reception
6:00 PM-9:00 PM
Western Michigan University Department of Geosciences Alumni Reception
6:00 PM-9:00 PM
Carleton College Alumni Reception
6:30 PM-8:30 PM
USC Department of Earth Sciences Alumni Reception
6:30 PM-8:30 PM
University of Cincinnati
6:30 PM-9:00 PM
Paleontological Society (PS) Education and Outreach Committee
7:00 PM-8:30 PM
Idaho Universities Joint Alumni Reception
7:00 PM-9:00 PM
Northwestern University Alumni Reception
7:00 PM-9:00 PM
Spartan Reception (Michigan State University)
7:00 PM-9:00 PM
University of Arizona Geosciences Department Reception
7:00 PM-9:00 PM
University of Kentucky Geology Alumni Reception
7:00 PM-9:00 PM
University of Michigan
7:00 PM-9:00 PM
University of Tennessee
7:00 PM-9:00 PM
Albion College Alumni Reunion
7:00 PM-9:30 PM
Bucknell University
7:00 PM-9:30 PM
Colby College
7:00 PM-9:30 PM
College of Charleston
7:00 PM-9:30 PM
Dickinson College
7:00 PM-9:30 PM
Duke University
7:00 PM-9:30 PM
Florida State University
7:00 PM-9:30 PM
Franklin & Marshall College
7:00 PM-9:30 PM
Grand Valley State University
7:00 PM-9:30 PM
James Madison University & Ireland Field Course
7:00 PM-9:30 PM
Macalester College
7:00 PM-9:30 PM
Miami University
7:00 PM-9:30 PM
Middlebury College
7:00 PM-9:30 PM
Missouri University of Science and Technology
7:00 PM-9:30 PM
Northern Arizona University
7:00 PM-9:30 PM
Oberlin College
7:00 PM-9:30 PM
Penn State Alumni Reception
7:00 PM-9:30 PM
Princeton University / University of Pennsylvania / Yellowstone Bighorn Research Association Alumni Reception
7:00 PM-9:30 PM
Smith College
7:00 PM-9:30 PM
Southern Illinois University - Carbondale
7:00 PM-9:30 PM
The College of Wooster
7:00 PM-9:30 PM
Trinity University
7:00 PM-9:30 PM
University of Georgia
7:00 PM-9:30 PM
University of Minnesota All-Campus
7:00 PM-9:30 PM
University of Missouri
7:00 PM-9:30 PM
University of Montana
7:00 PM-9:30 PM
University of Nebraska
7:00 PM-9:30 PM
University of Washington
7:00 PM-9:30 PM
West Virginia University
7:00 PM-9:30 PM
Rio Grande Universities
7:00 PM-10:00 PM
Syracuse University Earth Sciences Private Alumni Reception
7:00 PM-10:30 PM
University of Kansas Geology Alumni Reception
7:30 PM-9:30 PM
Virginia Tech - College of William and Mary - University of Virginia Joint Alumni Reception
7:30 PM-9:30 PM
University of Massachusetts Alumni Reception
7:30 PM-10:30 PM
GSA Campus Representatives Appreciation Breakfast **Invitation Only**
7:00 AM-8:30 AM
GSA Leadership Training
7:00 AM-8:30 AM
Association of American State Geologists (AASG) Mid-Year Meeting **Invitation Only**
7:00 AM-12:00 PM
GSA APC Meeting
7:30 AM-9:00 AM
Newsroom
7:30 AM-6:00 PM
GSA Guest Program Presidents' Breakfast **For Registered Guests Only**
8:00 AM-8:45 AM
GSA Geoscience Education Division Management Board Meeting
8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Workshop: Rates of soil forming processes - achievements, challenges, research gaps
8:30 AM-4:30 PM
Charlotte Talks Radio Program
9:00 AM-10:00 AM
GSA Local Tour #4: Old Salem Moravian Community Tour with Lunch
9:00 AM-5:00 PM
GSA Bookstore
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
GSA Connected Community-Networking Lounge
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
GSA Exhibits
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
GSA Headquarters- Foundation area
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
GSA Guest Seminar #2: Stephen L. Houser - Professional Storyteller
9:30 AM-10:30 AM
Pardee Keynote 4 Session break
9:45 AM-10:20 AM
American Geosciences Institute (AGI) and National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT) Meeting
10:00 AM-12:00 PM
GSA Geoscience Education Division Business Meeting & Social Hour
10:00 AM-12:00 PM
GSA Geology in Industry Mentor Luncheon
11:30 AM-1:00 PM
National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT) and GSA Geoscience Education Division Awards Luncheon **Ticketed Event**
11:30 AM-1:00 PM
GSA Structural Geology and Tectonics Division Management Board Meeting
11:30 AM-1:30 PM
GSA Hydrogeology Division Luncheon, Awards, and Business Meeting **Ticketed Event**
11:45 AM-3:15 PM
GSA Geology and Health Division Luncheon and Presentation
12:00 PM-1:00 PM
GSA Geobiology and Geomicrobiology Division Awards Luncheon
12:00 PM-1:30 PM
Geoscience Information Society (GSIS) Luncheon **Ticketed Event**
12:00 PM-1:30 PM
GSA History and Philosophy of Geology Division Luncheon, Business Meeting and Awards Ceremony **Ticketed Event**
12:00 PM-2:00 PM
Belmont Forum: Listening Session for Potential Future International Opportunity Fund Call for Proposals on Hazards and Extreme Events
12:15 PM-1:15 PM
GSA Lunchtime Lecture #3: 2012 Michel T. Halbouty Distinguished Lecturer Scott W. Tinker, "SWITCH: The Global Energy Transition"
12:15 PM-1:15 PM
GSA Session Chair Orientation
12:15 PM-1:15 PM
GSA Student Volunteer Technical Program Orientation
12:15 PM-1:15 PM
Information Session: Funding Opportunities for Undergraduate Geoscience Education
12:15 PM-1:30 PM
Mineralogical Society of America (MSA) Awards Luncheon **Ticketed Event**
12:30 PM-2:30 PM
Paleontological Society (PS) Council Meeting
1:00 PM-5:00 PM
Geoscience Information Society (GSIS) Information Resources Forum
1:30 PM-3:30 PM
GSA Local Tour #5: Wing Haven Gardens and Elizabeth Lawrence House & Garden Tour
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
GSA Local Section Meeting Chairs Round Table Meeting
2:00 PM-3:30 PM
GeoScienceWorld (GSW) eBooks Meeting
3:00 PM-5:00 PM
Mineralogical Society of America (MSA) Awards Lecturers, Presidential Address, and Annual Business Meeting
3:00 PM-5:30 PM
W.H. Freeman and Company Author Workshop
3:30 PM-5:30 PM
GSA Hydrogeology Division Birdsall-Dreiss Distinguished Lecture
4:30 PM-5:30 PM
GSA Geoinformatics Division Business Meeting
5:00 PM-6:00 PM
GSA Diversity in the Geosciences Social Reception
5:30 PM-7:30 PM
GSA Foundation Senior Fellows and Friends Reception **Invitation Only**
5:30 PM-7:30 PM
GSA History and Philosophy of Geology Division Reception party-prizes, snacks, beer and wine
5:30 PM-7:30 PM
GSA Geology and Health Division Business Meeting and Awards Presentation
5:45 PM-6:45 PM
GSA Geology and Society Division Distinguished Speaker, Mohamed El-Ashry, "Energy and Global Sustainability"
5:45 PM-6:45 PM
Joint Reception with GSA Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Petrology and Volcanology Division (MGPV), Mineralogical Society of America (MSA), and Geochemical Society (GS) ** Ticketed Event**
5:45 PM-7:30 PM
GSA Coal Geology Division Business Meeting and Awards Reception
5:45 PM-7:45 PM
GSA Hydrogeology Division Student Reception
5:45 PM-7:45 PM
Joint Annual Awards Ceremony and Party with GSA Sedimentary Geology Division, GSA Limnogeology Division and Society for Sedimentary Geology
5:45 PM-8:45 PM
GSA Structural Geology and Tectonics Division Business and Award Meeting
5:45 PM-9:00 PM
GSA International Section Awards Reception and Happy Hour
6:00 PM-7:30 PM
GSA Geoinformatics Division and Geoscience Information Society (GSIS) Joint Reception
6:00 PM-9:00 PM
GLBT Social
6:00 PM-10:00 PM
GSA Environmental and Engineering Geology Division 65th Anniversary Celebration and Awards Reception
6:00 PM-11:00 PM
Yale University Alumni Reception
6:05 PM-8:00 PM
GSA Geology and Society Division Awards and Geoscience Haiku reception with food and beverages. All are welcome!
6:45 PM-8:45 PM
GSA Planetary Geology Division Annual Banquet and G.K. Gilbert Awardee Celebration **Ticketed Event**
7:00 PM-10:00 PM
Cushman Foundation (CF) Award Ceremony & Reception
7:00 PM-11:00 PM
GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division Awards Ceremony
7:00 PM-11:00 PM
GSA Election Night Returns Viewing Event
7:30 PM-11:30 PM
Friends of the Cephalopods
8:00 PM-9:30 PM
GSA Secret Society Meeting (DO NOT POST - NO SIGNAGE)
8:00 PM-10:00 PM
MIT/Cal Tech Cocktail Party
9:00 PM-1:00 AM
GSA Hydrogeology Division Management Board Meeting II
7:00 AM-9:00 AM
Newsroom
7:30 AM-5:30 PM
GSA Council Meeting - Day 2
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Workshop: Rates of soil forming processes - achievements, challenges, research gaps
8:30 AM-4:30 PM
GeoScienceWorld (GSW) Advisory Council Meeting
8:30 AM-6:00 PM
GSA Bookstore
9:00 AM-2:00 PM
GSA Connected Community-Networking Lounge
9:00 AM-2:00 PM
GSA Exhibits
9:00 AM-2:00 PM
GSA Headquarters- Foundation area
9:00 AM-2:00 PM
GSA Local Tour #6: Harvest Vineyard Tour with Lunch
9:00 AM-4:00 PM
GSA Guest Seminar #3: Dr. Tom Hanchett - The Mills and the Music
9:30 AM-10:30 AM
STEPPE Advisory Committee Meeting
12:00 PM-1:00 PM
National Cave and Karst Research Institute (NCKRI) Board of Director's Meeting
12:00 PM-5:00 PM
Deep Carbon Observatory Town Hall Meeting
12:15 PM-1:15 PM
GSA Lunchtime Lecture #4: "What do the Election Results Mean for Science?"; David Conover, Al Teich and Kasey White (Moderator)
12:15 PM-1:15 PM
GeoScienceWorld (GSW) Board of Directors Meeting
8:00 AM-4:00 PM
Workshop: Rates of soil forming processes - achievements, challenges, research gaps
8:30 AM-4:30 PM
Pardee Keynote Sessions                 Mars Rover Curiosity: Geoscience in Gale Crater
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Digital Geology Speed-Dating: An Innovative Coupling of Interactive Presentations and Hands-On Workshop (Digital Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Supercontinent Cycles through Earth History
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Shale Gas Development and Hydraulic Fracturing Impacts on Water Resources in the United States
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Meltwater Production from Source (Ice Margins) to Sink (Ocean); Magnitude, Chronology, and Significance
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Understanding Earth through Carbon
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
   
Special Sessions             SPECIAL SESSION: GSA BULLETIN: 125th Celebration Presentations I
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
SPECIAL SESSION: GSA BULLETIN: 125th Celebration Presentations II
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
  SPECIAL SESSION: The Fluvial System: The Legacy of Stanley A. Schumm
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
  SPECIAL SESSION: Recent Advances in Carbonate Sedimentology and Stratigraphy: In Memory of Gerald M. Friedman
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
     
Topical Sessions             Cenozoic Ostracode Research: Developments in Paleoclimatology, Paleohydrology, Paleoecology, and Phylogenetics
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Geomorphology of the Anthropocene: The Surficial Legacy of Past and Present Human Activities
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Linking Coastal and Aeolian Geomorphology at the Beach-Dune Interface
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Teaching Controversy in the K–16 Earth Science Classroom
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Estimation Techniques and Controls on Natural and Artificial Recharge
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Groundwater–Surface Water Interactions: Advances in Measurement and Modeling Techniques I
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Arsenic: Fate and Transport in Natural Waters and Aquifers from Basin to Pore-Space Scale I
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Rapid Sea-Level Rise and Its Impacts: Past, Present, and Future I
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Fossils Plants as Paleoenvironmental Recorders I
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Bloss Mineralogical Session I: In Honor of the Life-Time Accomplishments of F. Donald Bloss, Emeritus Alumni Distinguished Professor, Virginia Tech, as a Researcher, Author, and Teacher in the Field of Optical Mineralogy
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Divided Oceans and Connected Continents: Advances in Geology and Paleontology of the Tropical Americas I
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
The Big Kill: Paleobiological, Geochemical, and Modeling Studies of the Permian–Triassic Boundary Mass Extinction I
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
The Heart of an Explorer: A Tribute to Ronald Greeley
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Surf’s Up: New Insights on the Geology, Karst, and Paleontology of Carbonate Systems of the Bahama Archipelago I
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Dynamics of Gneiss Domes, Core Complexes, and Orogenic Plateaux
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Integrated Detrital Records of Orogenic Systems I
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Geomorphology of the Anthropocene: The Surficial Legacy of Past and Present Human Activities (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:30 PM
Linking Coastal and Aeolian Geomorphology at the Beach-Dune Interface (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:30 PM
Geological CO2 Storage Monitoring and Characterization from Injection Intervals to the Vadose Zone: Detection Methods and Field Applications (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:30 PM
Building a Professional Portfolio through Hands-On Research Activities in the Geosciences: Focusing on Early Involvement of Undergraduate and K–12 Students (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:30 PM
Formative Assessment in Geoscience Education (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:30 PM
Seeing through the Eyes of the Geologist: Eye Tracking, Video, and Image Analysis in Geoscience Education and Geocognition Research (Digital Posters)
9:00 AM-6:30 PM
Building Capacity for Hydrologic Science in Water-Stressed Regions of the World (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:30 PM
Oceans and Climates through Earth History: From Proxy Reconstructions to Model Assessments (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:30 PM
Geologic Analog Studies of the Rocky Planets: Understanding Planetary Geologic Evolution and Surface Processes (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:30 PM
Deformation Processes in Lithospheric High-Strain Zones (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:30 PM
Dynamics of Gneiss Domes, Core Complexes, and Orogenic Plateaux (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:30 PM
The Next Generation—Sedimentary Geology Student Poster Session (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:30 PM
New Developments and Applications in Sclerochronology
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Quaternary Sedimentary Architecture as a Prerequisite to Hydrogeological Modeling of Glaciated Terrains
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Advances in the Study of Physical Weathering Processes and Their Influence on Landscape Evolution
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Practical Applications of Environmental and Engineering Geology
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Successful Strategies for Teaching Online Geoscience Courses
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Geological and Hydrogeological Characterization Studies at CO2 Sequestration Sites
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Groundwater–Surface Water Interactions: Advances in Measurement and Modeling Techniques II
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Arsenic: Fate and Transport in Natural Waters and Aquifers from Basin to Pore-Space Scale II
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Rapid Sea-Level Rise and Its Impacts: Past, Present, and Future II
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Fossils Plants as Paleoenvironmental Recorders II
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Bloss Mineralogical Session II: In Honor of the Life-Time Accomplishments of F. Donald Bloss, Emeritus Alumni Distinguished Professor, Virginia Tech, as a Researcher, Author, and Teacher in the Field of Optical Mineralogy
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Divided Oceans and Connected Continents: Advances in Geology and Paleontology of the Tropical Americas II
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
The Big Kill: Paleobiological, Geochemical, and Modeling Studies of the Permian–Triassic Boundary Mass Extinction II
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Geochemistry, Mineralogy, and Petrology of Mars
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Surf’s Up: New Insights on the Geology, Karst, and Paleontology of Carbonate Systems of the Bahama Archipelago II
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Heredity of Appalachian Crust
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Integrated Detrital Records of Orogenic Systems II
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Modern and Ancient Saline Lakes
8:00 AM-9:30 AM
Progress in Forensic Geochemistry
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Geoarchaeological Approaches to Paleoenvironments and Landscapes
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Quaternary Atlantic Coastal Plain Formation and Evolution
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Geology and Mineral Resources of the Carolina Slate Belt: A Tribute to Robert Carpenter
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Phase Transformations and Geodynamics: Mineralogy in Action: Devoted to Harry Green, 2012 Roebling Medalist
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Innovations and Challenges in Non-Major Instruction in Two- and Four-Year Colleges I
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Groundwater–Surface Water Interactions: Approaches for Improved Decision Making for Water Resource Issues
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
The Biscayne and other Eogenetic Karst Aquifers: Characterization, Modeling, and Management
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Biogeochemical Processes Influence the Environmental Fate of Contaminants: The Role of Hydrology and Ecology in the Chemical Evolution of Water
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Constructing Deltaic Depositional Systems: Integrating Field Examples, Theory, and Modeling
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Investigating the Future of Uranium in the Geosciences: An Examination of Environmental Studies and Applications
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Advances in Cenozoic Foraminiferal Biostratigraphy, Chemostratigraphy, and Paleoecology
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Fossil Preservation, Biological Evolution, and Environmental Change at the Dawn of Animal Radiation: An Examination of Geobiological Events across the Ediacaran–Cambrian Transition I
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Deformation Processes in Lithospheric High-Strain Zones I
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Sigma Gamma Epsilon Undergraduate Research (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
New Developments and Applications in Sclerochronology (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Quaternary Sedimentary Architecture as a Prerequisite to Hydrogeological Modeling of Glaciated Terrains (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Successful Strategies for Teaching Online Geoscience Courses (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Geologic Maps, Digital Geologic Maps, and Derivatives from Geologic and Geophysical Maps (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Groundwater–Surface Water Interactions: Approaches for Improved Decision Making for Water Resource Issues (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Groundwater–Surface Water Interactions: Advances in Measurement and Modeling Techniques (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Arsenic: Fate and Transport in Natural Waters and Aquifers from Basin to Pore-Space Scale (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Fossils Plants as Paleoenvironmental Recorders (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Divided Oceans and Connected Continents: Advances in Geology and Paleontology of the Tropical Americas (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Topics in Paleoecology: Predation/Biotic Interactions, Fidelity/Taphonomy, and Community Ecology/Whole Organism Paleoecology (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
New Moon Rising: The Latest Geologic Results from the Lunar Surface (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Impact Cratering in the Solar System: Processes and Products (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Surf’s Up: New Insights on the Geology, Karst, and Paleontology of Carbonate Systems of the Bahama Archipelago (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Multidisciplinary Studies of Convergent Plate Boundaries (Posters): In Honor of Jason Saleeby, 2012 MGPV Distinguished Geologic Career Awardee
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Heredity of Appalachian Crust (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Integrated Detrital Records of Orogenic Systems (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Lacustrine Microbialites Past and Present: Hydrology, Water Chemistry, Sedimentology, and Stratigraphy
9:45 AM-12:00 PM
Recent Sea-Level Change in a Late Holocene Context
1:30 PM-3:30 PM
Dissolved Gases and Bubbles in Groundwater: Applications and Emerging Topics
1:30 PM-4:45 PM
The Evolution of Karst Landscapes through Time in Response to Changing Hydrologic, Geomorphic, and Tectonic Conditions
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Geological Records of Earthquakes and Tsunamis on Passive and Active Margins Coasts
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Using Buried Soils to Reconstruct Past Climates: Opportunities and Considerations
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Combining Geophysics and Geology: The George P. Woollard Award Session
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Fostering the Next Generation: Support for Pre-College Teachers and Students by Professional Societies, Institutions, and Federal Agencies
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Innovations and Challenges in Non-Major Instruction in Two- and Four-Year Colleges II
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Hydrogeology and Geochemistry of Shales
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Lake Systems Through Space and Time
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Biotracers, Mineralogical and Geochemical Properties of Circum-Arctic Sediment Sources, and Runoff toward the Arctic Ocean
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
The Relationship between Silicic Plutons and Ignimbrites: Exploring the Contradictions
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Advances in Foraminiferal Biostratigraphy, Chemostratigraphy, and Paleoecology
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Fossil Preservation, Biological Evolution, and Environmental Change at the Dawn of Animal Radiation: An Examination of Geobiological Events across the Ediacaran–Cambrian Transition II
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Tectonics of Icy Bodies and Their Analogs
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Geologic Timescale—Current Status, Future Enhancement, and Applications
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Deformation Processes in Lithospheric High-Strain Zones II
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
A Healthy Dose of Quaternary Geochronology at the Shoreline: Applications of Luminescence and Other Dating Techniques to Resolving the Timing of Coastal, Estuarine, and Lake Shore Processes
3:45 PM-5:30 PM
Sources, Transport, Fate, and Toxicology of Trace Elements and Organics in the Environment
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Landscape Dynamics: Gullies and Rivers
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Landslides and Debris Flows: Global Problems, Local Solutions
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Weathering of Mineral Deposits in Semi-Tropical and Tropical Climates
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Geology Careers for New Geology Graduates
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Climate Literacy: Formal and Informal Educational Activities and Community Outreach to Support an Informed Society
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Geoscience Information: Investing in the Future
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Riparian Ecohydrology and Stream-Aquifer Interactions: Fluxes across the Surface-Subsurface Interface
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Hydrology of Urban Groundwater, Streams, and Watersheds
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Wetlands: Form, Function and History I
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Recent Sea-Level Rise: Accelerating or Not?
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Terrestrial Proxies of Paleoclimate and Paleoenvironment in Deep Time
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
From Composition and Modal Space, to Biopyriboles, to the Thermodynamics of Metamorphism: The Influence of James B. Thompson, Jr., on Present and Future Mineralogy, Metamorphic Petrology, and Northern Appalachian Geology
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Topics in Paleoecology: Predation/Biotic Interactions, Fidelity/Taphonomy, and Community Ecology/Whole Organism Paleoecology I
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Virtual Paleontology: Computer-Aided Analysis of Fossil Form and Function
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
The Origins of Arthropod Diversity: Phylogenetic Insights from the Living and the Dead I
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
The Geology of Asteroid 4 Vesta as Seen by Dawn: Results from One Year in Orbit
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Detrital Zircon Provenance of Neoproterozoic to Lower Paleozoic Strata of Northern and Western Laurentia
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Central Virginia Earthquakes of 2011: Geology, Geophysics, and Significance for Seismic Hazards in Eastern North America
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Multidisciplinary Studies of Convergent Plate Boundaries I: In Honor of Jason Saleeby, 2012 MGPV Distinguished Geologic Career Awardee
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Sources, Transport, Fate, and Toxicology of Trace Elements and Organics in the Environment (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
The Evolution of Karst Landscapes through Time in Response to Changing Hydrologic, Geomorphic, and Tectonic Conditions (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Geological Records of Earthquakes and Tsunamis on Passive and Active Margins Coasts (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Using Buried Soils to Reconstruct Past Climates: Opportunities and Considerations (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Landscape Dynamics: Gullies and Rivers (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Landslides and Debris Flows: Global Problems, Local Solutions (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
The Fluvial System: The Legacy of Stanley A. Schumm (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Perspectives in Floodplain System Science (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Combining Geophysics and Geology: The George P. Woollard Award Session (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Dynamic Views of North America from EarthScope-Related Research (Digital Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Student Use of Smart Phone/Tablet Technology in the Field or Classroom: An Educational Resource or the Bane of Your Existence? (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Undergraduate Research as Teaching Practice (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Innovations and Challenges in Non-Major Instruction in Two- and Four-Year Colleges (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Citizen Science, Mobile Applications, and Geoscience (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Coastal Surface Water–Groundwater Interactions (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Comparisons of Flow and Chemistry in Eogenetic and Telogentic Karst Aquifers (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Lake Systems Through Space and Time (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Lacustrine Microbialites Past and Present: Hydrology, Water Chemistry, Sedimentology, and Stratigraphy (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Quantitative Cenozoic Terrestrial Climate Reconstructions in the Northern Hemisphere: Evidence from Paleo-Proxies and Beyond (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Fossil Preservation, Biological Evolution, and Environmental Change at the Dawn of Animal Radiation: An Examination of Geobiological Events across the Ediacaran–Cambrian Transition (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Virtual Paleontology: Computer-Aided Analysis of Fossil Form and Function (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Integrative Studies of Sedimentary Marine and Fluvial Cretaceous Deposits along the Western Margin of the North Atlantic Basin (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Geochemical Proxies for Ancient Ocean Chemistry: Implications for Links Between Ocean Chemistry, Plate Tectonics, Sea Level, and Climate throughout the Late Precambrian and Phanerozoic
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Post-Glacial Landscape Evolution: Landforms and Processes in Alpine and Sub-Alpine Areas
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Channel Morphology and Hydraulic Geometry of Channelized Flows: Linking Observations from a Variety of Environments and Scales
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Frontiers in Coal Science: From Basic Research to Applied Technology
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Insights into Geological Processes and Hazards Acquired through Recent Technological Advances
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Climate Literacy: Research and Evaluation Outcomes from Informal and Formal Climate Education Efforts
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Understanding Risk and Communicating Uncertainty to the Public
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Wetlands: Form, Function and History II
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Topics in Paleoecology: Predation/Biotic Interactions, Fidelity/Taphonomy, and Community Ecology/Whole Organism Paleoecology II
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
The Origins of Arthropod Diversity: Phylogenetic Insights from the Living and the Dead II
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
The Future of Quantitative Paleontology: Biometry, Computer Vision, and Machine Learning
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Observation and Analysis of Impact Cratering and Its Effects: The G.K. Gilbert Award Session
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Carolina Geological Society 75th Anniversary: The Geology of the Carolinas
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Preservation of Environmental Signals in Deep-Water Depositional Systems
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
The Role of Structure and Diagenesis in Governing Fluid Storage and Flow in Deep Sedimentary Basins with Applications to Unconventional Oil and Gas Reservoirs
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Multidisciplinary Studies of Convergent Plate Boundaries II: In Honor of Jason Saleeby, 2012 MGPV Distinguished Geologic Career Awardee
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Hydrochemistry and Biogeochemistry of Tropical Mountainous Rivers and Estuaries
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Subduction-Related Mantle Preparation and Subsequent Magmatism and Ore Genesis
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
GIS and Remote Sensing Applications in Environmental and Engineering Geology
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
EarthScope and Geoprisms in Eastern North America: Ongoing Endeavors and a Look Ahead
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Research and Instructional Approaches of Access and Inclusion to Increase Diversity in the Geosciences
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Teaching Teachers: Examples of Successful Geoscience Content Courses and Workshops for Pre-Service and in-Service Teachers
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Advances in Hydrology and Sustainable Water Management in Coastal Environments
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Hydraulic Fracturing for Resource Development or Remediation: Methods, Results, and Industry-Regulatory Response to Environmental Impacts on Ground and Surface Waters
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
The Role of Microfossils in Environmental Monitoring
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Getting to the Root of It—Metamorphism, Tectonics, and Crustal Evolution
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
The Evolution of Biomineralization
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Topics in Paleoecology: Predation/Biotic Interactions, Fidelity/Taphonomy, and Community Ecology/Whole Organism Paleoecology III
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
New Moon Rising: The Latest Geologic Results from the Lunar Surface
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Impact Cratering in the Solar System: Processes and Products
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Mid-Atlantic Coastal Plain Stratigraphy and Paleontology
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Appalachian-Ouachita-Marathon Fold-Thrust Belts and Foreland Basins: Their Stratigraphy, Sedimentology, Structural Evolution, and Economic Significance
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Geochemical Proxies for Ancient Ocean Chemistry: Implications for Links Between Ocean Chemistry, Plate Tectonics, Sea Level, and Climate throughout the Late Precambrian and Phanerozoic (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Geochemistry of Urban Environments (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Archaeological Geology (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Frontiers in Coal Science: From Basic Research to Applied Technology (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
EarthScope and Geoprisms in Eastern North America: Ongoing Endeavors and a Look Ahead (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
New Strategies for Teaching Mineralogy, Petrology, Geochemistry, and Volcanology (MPVG) to Geoscience Majors and General Education Students (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Teaching Teachers: Examples of Successful Geoscience Content Courses and Workshops for Pre-Service and in-Service Teachers (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
The Hydrology of Headwater Catchments (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Hydrology of Urban Groundwater, Streams, and Watersheds (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Wetlands: Form, Function and History (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
The Role of Microfossils in Environmental Monitoring (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Terrestrial Proxies of Paleoclimate and Paleoenvironment in Deep Time (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Getting to the Root of It—Metamorphism, Tectonics, and Crustal Evolution (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Geologic Timescale—Current Status, Future Enhancement, and Applications (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Carolina Geological Society 75th Anniversary: The Geology of the Carolinas (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Central Virginia Earthquakes of 2011: Geology, Geophysics, and Significance for Seismic Hazards in Eastern North America (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
The Role of Structure and Diagenesis in Governing Fluid Storage and Flow in Deep Sedimentary Basins with Applications to Unconventional Oil and Gas Reservoirs (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Appalachian-Ouachita-Marathon Fold-Thrust Belts and Foreland Basins: Their Stratigraphy, Sedimentology, Structural Evolution, and Economic Significance (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Large-Scale Strike-Slip Fault Systems: Insights into 4-D Evolution through Lateral and Vertical Juxtaposition Recorded in the Rock Record, Geophysical Imaging, and Associated Basin Formation via Large-Scale Translation and Transpression (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Supercontinent Cycles through Earth History (Posters)
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Geochemistry of Urban Environments
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Undergraduate Research as Teaching Practice
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Geology in the National Parks: Research, Mapping, and Resource Management
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Coastal Surface Water–Groundwater Interactions
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Groundwater Model Calibration and Uncertainty Analysis
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Paleotempestology: Proxy Record Development and Climate Forcing Mechanisms
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Advances in Spectroscopy for Geological and Mineralogical Analysis
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Pantropical Paleontology of the Marine Cenozoic
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Topics in Paleoecology: Predation/Biotic Interactions, Fidelity/Taphonomy, and Community Ecology/Whole Organism Paleoecology IV
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Shock Processes and Shock Attenuation Associated with Hypervelocity Impact Events
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Cyclicity and Hierarchy in the Clastic Stratigraphic Record
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Large-Scale Strike-Slip Fault Systems: Insights into 4-D Evolution through Lateral and Vertical Juxtaposition Recorded in the Rock Record, Geophysical Imaging, and Associated Basin Formation via Large-Scale Translation and Transpression
1:30 PM-5:30 PM