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2015 GSA Annual Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland, USA (1-4 November 2015)

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Sunday, 1 November 2015

8:00 AM-11:00 AM

1
P1. Celebrating the Genius of William ‘Strata’ Smith: Bicentennial Anniversary of Smith’s Revolutionary Map I
Room 327/328/329 (Baltimore Convention Center)

8:00 AM-12:00 PM

2
Marine/Coastal Science
Room 342 (Baltimore Convention Center)
3
Paleontology: Ancient Life in Deep Time: Temporal and Geographic Trends in Fossil Distributions
Room 316 (Baltimore Convention Center)
4
Recent Advances in Hydrogeology I
Room 331/332 (Baltimore Convention Center)
5
Structural Geology: Geometry and Kinematics from Mapping and Modeling
Room 336 (Baltimore Convention Center)
6
T1. Bridging Two Continents: Active Intracontinental Tectonics in Asia and North America and the Associated Geohazards
Room 349/350 (Baltimore Convention Center)
7
T5. Bridging Two Continents: Geologic Configuration of the Tibetan Plateau Region Prior to the Indo-Asian Collision: Setting the Stage for Development of a High Elevation Plateau
Room 347/348 (Baltimore Convention Center)
8
T32. Urban Geochemistry
Room 308 (Baltimore Convention Center)
9
T52. From the River Channel to the Drainage Divide: Processes, Driving Mechanisms, and the Direction of Topographic Change in the Appalachians
Room 307 (Baltimore Convention Center)
10
T60. An Updated View on Caribbean Tectonics
Room 319/320 (Baltimore Convention Center)
11
T69. Closing the Diversity Gap in Geoscience: Successful Models, Best Practices, Benefits, Outcomes, and Next Steps
Room 337 (Baltimore Convention Center)
12
T70. Digital Technology in Real and Virtual Geoscience Experiences I
Room 339 (Baltimore Convention Center)
13
T85. Preparing Pathways in K–12 Classrooms for Tomorrow’s Diverse Geoscience Workforce: Teachers, Students, and Communities
Room 322/323 (Baltimore Convention Center)
14
T108. Nanomaterials and Contaminants in Hydrogeology
Room 345/346 (Baltimore Convention Center)
15
T121. New Perspectives in Karst Geomicrobiology and Redox Geochemistry: Advances from 20 Years of Interdisciplinary Research and Exploring Our Future Frontiers
Room 340 (Baltimore Convention Center)
16
T134. Radiation Effects, Mineralogy, and Materials Science of Actinides I: In Honor of Rodney C. Ewing, 2015 Roebling Medalist
Room 317 (Baltimore Convention Center)
17
T146. Palynology
Room 309 (Baltimore Convention Center)
18
T149. Co-Evolution of Life and Planet: Broad–Scale Controls on Biodiversity I
Room 314 (Baltimore Convention Center)
19
T153. Mass Extinction Causality: Records of Anoxia, Acidification, and Global Warming during Earth's Greatest Crises I
Room 310 (Baltimore Convention Center)
20
T157. Eat, Prey, Love, and Burrow: Tracing Animal Behavior through Time
Room 315 (Baltimore Convention Center)
21
T177. When Water Meets Rock: Aqueous Alteration in the Solar System
Room 344 (Baltimore Convention Center)
22
T179. Coordination of Civil Earth Observations: Review, Status, and Applications of Earth Observation Systems
Room 325/326 (Baltimore Convention Center)
23
T189. New Applications of Geochronologic Techniques to Quaternary and Archaeological Settings
Room 341 (Baltimore Convention Center)
24
T208. Perspectives on Orogenic Evolution, Dating Brittle Faults and Mylonitic Shear Zones, Bending Mountains, and Assembling Supercontinents I: A Session to Honor the Career of Ben Van Der Pluijm
Room 343 (Baltimore Convention Center)

9:00 AM-5:30 PM

25
T13. Geologic Energy Research (Posters)
Exhibit Hall (Baltimore Convention Center)
26
Engineering Geology (Posters)
Exhibit Hall (Baltimore Convention Center)
27
T20. Embedded Research Projects in Upper Level Undergraduate Courses: A Plausible Panacea for the Dwindling Science and Engineering (S&E) Researchers Community (Posters)
Exhibit Hall (Baltimore Convention Center)
28
Geochemistry (Posters)
Exhibit Hall (Baltimore Convention Center)
29
Geoinformatics (Posters)
Exhibit Hall (Baltimore Convention Center)
30
T44. Our Data Belong in Our Hands: 3-D Printing—The Future of Geoscience Research and Education (Posters)
Exhibit Hall (Baltimore Convention Center)
31
Geology and Health (Posters)
Exhibit Hall (Baltimore Convention Center)
32
Geoscience Education (Posters)
Exhibit Hall (Baltimore Convention Center)
33
T66. Beginning a New Era in Earth Science Education: The Role of Geoscience in Implementing the Next Generation Science Standards (Posters)
Exhibit Hall (Baltimore Convention Center)
34
T69. Closing the Diversity Gap in Geoscience: Successful Models, Best Practices, Benefits, Outcomes, and Next Steps (Posters)
Exhibit Hall (Baltimore Convention Center)
35
T70. Digital Technology in Real and Virtual Geoscience Experiences (Posters)
Exhibit Hall (Baltimore Convention Center)
36
T75. Field-Based Educational Research: Insights from Field Camps, Field Trips, and Field-Based Courses (Posters)
Exhibit Hall (Baltimore Convention Center)
37
T77. Geology and Hydrology in the National Parks: Research, Mapping, and Resource Management (Posters)
Exhibit Hall (Baltimore Convention Center)
38
T96. Geologic Maps and Their Derivatives (Posters)
Exhibit Hall (Baltimore Convention Center)
39
T127. Continental Shelf and Estuarine Seafloor Mapping and Shallow Stratigraphy on the North American East Coast (Posters)
Exhibit Hall (Baltimore Convention Center)
40
Paleoclimatology/Paleoceanography (Posters)
Exhibit Hall (Baltimore Convention Center)
41
T139. Insights from Microfossils, from Traditional to Novel Approaches (Posters)
Exhibit Hall (Baltimore Convention Center)
42
Paleontology: The Analytical Toolkit: Evaluating Bias, Specimens, and Relationships (Posters)
Exhibit Hall (Baltimore Convention Center)
43
Paleontology: Trends in Morphology and Size (Posters)
Exhibit Hall (Baltimore Convention Center)
44
T146. Palynology (Posters)
Exhibit Hall (Baltimore Convention Center)
45
T173. Impact Cratering on Earth and in the Solar System (Posters)
Exhibit Hall (Baltimore Convention Center)
46
Structural Geology (Posters)
Exhibit Hall (Baltimore Convention Center)
47
Tectonics/Tectonophysics (Posters)
Exhibit Hall (Baltimore Convention Center)
48
T3. Bridging Two Continents (Posters): Comparative Studies of Accretionary Orogenesis in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt, North American Cordillera, and Other Orogenic Belts
Exhibit Hall (Baltimore Convention Center)
49
T4. Bridging Two Continents (Posters): Diamonds, Zircons and Native Elements in the Mantle: New Discoveries and Models on the Properties and Petrogenesis of Oceanic Mantle Lithosphere
Exhibit Hall (Baltimore Convention Center)
50
T8. Bridging Two Continents (Posters): Supercontinents In Earth’s History: New Perspectives from Precambrian Geology of Asia and North America
Exhibit Hall (Baltimore Convention Center)

1:30 PM-5:30 PM

51
Recent Advances in Hydrogeology II
Room 331/332 (Baltimore Convention Center)
52
T2. Bridging Two Continents: Advances in Crustal Subduction and Ultrahigh-Pressure Metamorphism
Room 349/350 (Baltimore Convention Center)
53
T6. Bridging Two Continents: Mid-Latitude Climate during Cretaceous Greenhouse States: Comparison between East Asia and North America
Room 347/348 (Baltimore Convention Center)
54
T29. Restoring the Nation’s Largest Estuary: Lessons Learned from Efforts to Address Changes in Water Quality and Ecosystem Structure and Function within the Context of Landscape Change and Climate Variability in the Chesapeake Bay and Its Watershed
Room 308 (Baltimore Convention Center)
55
T48. Geomicrobiology: Microbes as a Geologic Force on Modern and Ancient Earth
Room 338 (Baltimore Convention Center)
56
T58. Undergraduate Research Talks: The Next Step in Student Research Projects
Room 318 (Baltimore Convention Center)
57
T65. Utilizing 2-D and 3-D Near-Surface Geophysics to Generate Improved Surface and Subsurface Geologic Maps
Room 322/323 (Baltimore Convention Center)
58
T66. Beginning a New Era in Earth Science Education: The Role of Geoscience in Implementing the Next Generation Science Standards
Room 321 (Baltimore Convention Center)
59
T70. Digital Technology in Real and Virtual Geoscience Experiences II
Room 339 (Baltimore Convention Center)
60
T71. Enticing Urban Youth to the Geosciences
Room 324 (Baltimore Convention Center)
61
T72. Ethics of Geoscience in Practice and Application
Room 337 (Baltimore Convention Center)
62
T103. Contaminant Transport, Fate, and Remediation in Fractured Rocks
Room 345/346 (Baltimore Convention Center)
63
T113. Effects of Urbanization on Hydrological and Geochemical Cycling in Surface and Ground Waters
Room 336 (Baltimore Convention Center)
64
T131. Gemological Research in the 21st Century: Exploration, Geology, and Characterization of Diamonds and other Gem Minerals
Room 342 (Baltimore Convention Center)
65
T134. Radiation Effects, Mineralogy, and Materials Science of Actinides II: In Honor of Rodney C. Ewing, 2015 Roebling Medalist
Room 317 (Baltimore Convention Center)
66
T138. From the Caspian to Mediterranean: Environmental Change and Human Response during the Quaternary (IGCP 610)
Room 325/326 (Baltimore Convention Center)
67
T149. Co-Evolution of Life and Planet: Broad–Scale Controls on Biodiversity II
Room 314 (Baltimore Convention Center)
68
T153. Mass Extinction Causality: Records of Anoxia, Acidification, and Global Warming during Earth's Greatest Crises II
Room 310 (Baltimore Convention Center)
69
T155. Timing of the Origins and Evolution of Unicellular Eukaryotes
Room 316 (Baltimore Convention Center)
70
T159. The Fossil Record of Parasite-Host Interactions: New Perspectives and Approaches
Room 315 (Baltimore Convention Center)
71
T171. Exploring the Sedimentary Rock Record of Mars
Room 344 (Baltimore Convention Center)
72
T188. Inside or Out? Investigations into Driving Forces in Fluvial Systems
Room 340 (Baltimore Convention Center)
73
T198. Shale Gas Basins: Their Stratigraphy, Sedimentary Environments, Tectonics, and Structural Evolution
Room 307 (Baltimore Convention Center)
74
T208. Perspectives on Orogenic Evolution, Dating Brittle Faults and Mylonitic Shear Zones, Bending Mountains, and Assembling Supercontinents II: A Session to Honor the Career of Ben Van Der Pluijm
Room 343 (Baltimore Convention Center)
75
T217. Rift-Drift, Seafloor Spreading, and Subduction Zone Tectonics of Collisional Orogens: Comparative Analysis of the Circum-Mediterranean and Appalachian-Caledonian Orogenic Belts
Room 341 (Baltimore Convention Center)
76
T219. Intraplate and Divergent Boundary Volcanism: A Tribute to the Distinguished Career of David Clague
Room 319/320 (Baltimore Convention Center)

2:00 PM-4:00 PM

77
P1. Celebrating the Genius of William ‘Strata’ Smith: Bicentennial Anniversary of Smith’s Revolutionary Map II
Room 327/328/329 (Baltimore Convention Center)