Joint 120th Annual Cordilleran/74th Annual Rocky Mountain Section Meeting - 2024

  SUNDAY
12 May
MONDAY
13 May
TUESDAY
14 May
WEDNESDAY
15 May
THURSDAY
16 May
FRIDAY
17 May
SATURDAY
18 May
SUNDAY
19 May
MONDAY
20 May
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Discipline Sessions                 D1. Recent Advances in Geoscience and Geoscience Education
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
D1. Recent Advances in Geoscience and Geoscience Education (Posters)
9:00 AM-1:30 PM
       
Events         Exhibits - Set Up
12:00 PM-4:00 PM
Registration
4:00 PM-8:00 PM
Speaker Ready Room
4:00 PM-8:00 PM
Welcoming Reception
5:00 PM-7:30 PM
Exhibits
5:30 PM-8:00 PM
Low Impact Fitness Class
6:15 AM-7:00 AM
Session Chair Orientation
7:00 AM-7:15 AM
Speaker Ready Room
7:00 AM-5:00 PM
Registration
7:00 AM-6:00 PM
Exhibits
8:00 AM-6:00 PM
Geoscience Career Program Workshop Part 1: Career Planning and Informational Interviewing
9:00 AM-10:00 AM
Geoscience Career Program Workshop Part 2: Geoscience Career Exploration
10:00 AM-11:00 AM
Roy J. Shlemon Mentors Program in Applied Geoscience
12:00 PM-1:30 PM
Geology Club Meetup
2:00 PM-3:00 PM
Happy Hour
5:00 PM-6:00 PM
Keynote Speaker: Nicholas Zentner, join Nick Zentner, Department of Geological Sciences at Central Washington University, for a screening of his recent public television show, “Nick on the Rocks!” followed by a Q&A.
6:00 PM-7:30 PM
Low Impact Fitness Class
6:15 AM-7:00 AM
Session Chair Orientation
7:00 AM-7:15 AM
GSA Rocky Mountain Executive Committee Management Board Meeting Breakfast (Invitation Only)
7:00 AM-8:30 AM
Speaker Ready Room
7:00 AM-5:00 PM
Registration
7:00 AM-6:00 PM
Exhibits
8:00 AM-6:00 PM
Geoscience Career Program Workshop Part 3: Cover Letters, Résumés, and CVs
9:00 AM-10:00 AM
National Science Foundation (NSF) Lunchtime Q&A: NSF Program Director Rachel Teasdale will share information about NSF, new changes to the Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG), best practices for proposal preparation, programs, and award opportunities.
12:00 PM-1:00 PM
John Mann Mentors Program in Applied Hydrogeology
12:00 PM-1:30 PM
GSA Rocky Mountain and Cordilleran Executive Committee Section Business Meeting
5:00 PM-6:00 PM
Happy Hour
5:00 PM-6:00 PM
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Jon Major, listen to Dr. Jon Major, Scientist-in-Charge at the US Geological Survey, Cascade Volcano Observatory, present “Four decades of Mount St. Helens as a master teacher.” This is part of a recognition of the 44th anniversary of the eruption of Mount St. Helens on May 18th, 1980.
6:00 PM-7:30 PM
Low Impact Fitness Class
6:15 AM-7:00 AM
Session Chair Orientation
7:00 AM-7:15 AM
Speaker Ready Room
7:00 AM-10:00 AM
Registration
7:00 AM-1:00 PM
Exhibits
8:00 AM-2:00 PM
Guide-yourself Field Trip of Riverfront Park. Leave the Davenport Grand and walk through Riverfront Park.
1:30 PM-4:00 PM
Exhibits: Tear Down
2:00 PM-5:00 PM
     
Field Trips Elbow Tectonics: Smashing, Translating, and Rotating Outboard Terranes of the Syringa Embayment of the Laurentian Accretionary Margin of Western Idaho
8:00 AM-11:55 PM
Arc Versus River: The Geology of the Columbia River Gorge
8:00 AM-11:55 PM
Geologic Cross Section of the Mesoproterozoic Belt Basin from Rogers Pass, Montana to Sandpoint, Idaho
7:00 PM-11:55 PM
Elbow Tectonics: Smashing, Translating, and Rotating Outboard Terranes of the Syringa Embayment of the Laurentian Accretionary Margin of Western Idaho
5:00 AM-11:55 PM
Arc Versus River: The Geology of the Columbia River Gorge
5:00 AM-11:55 PM
Geologic Cross Section of the Mesoproterozoic Belt Basin from Rogers Pass, Montana to Sandpoint, Idaho
5:00 AM-11:55 PM
Elbow Tectonics: Smashing, Translating, and Rotating Outboard Terranes of the Syringa Embayment of the Laurentian Accretionary Margin of Western Idaho
5:00 AM-6:00 PM
Arc Versus River: The Geology of the Columbia River Gorge
5:00 AM-6:00 PM
Geologic Cross Section of the Mesoproterozoic Belt Basin from Rogers Pass, Montana to Sandpoint, Idaho
5:00 AM-6:00 PM
Biostratigraphy of Cambrian Metaline Limestone Exposed in the Lafarge Quarry
8:00 AM-5:00 PM
Depositional Contacts of Loess-CRB as Analogs for Lunar Regolith, Martian Dust, and the Matrix of Impact Ejecta Breccia Lobes
8:00 AM-5:00 PM
              Unscrambling the Proterozoic Supercontinent Record of Northeastern Washington State
8:00 AM-6:00 PM
A Tour of the Fabulous Coeur d’Alene Mining District, Shoshone County, Idaho
8:00 AM-6:00 PM
Uncovering a Miocene Forest in Ancient Lake Clarkia
8:00 AM-6:00 PM
Basement, Belt, and Batholith: Bedrock Geology of the Idaho Panhandle
8:00 AM-11:55 PM
Stratigraphy, Eruption, and Evolution of the Columbia River Basalt Group
8:00 AM-11:55 PM
Cataclysmic, Ice Age Megafloods through the Cheney-Palouse Scabland Tract
8:00 AM-11:55 PM
Basement, Belt, and Batholith: Bedrock Geology of the Idaho Panhandle
5:00 AM-6:00 PM
Cataclysmic, Ice Age Megafloods through the Cheney-Palouse Scabland Tract
5:00 AM-6:00 PM
Stratigraphy, Eruption, and Evolution of the Columbia River Basalt Group
5:00 AM-11:55 PM
Stratigraphy, Eruption, and Evolution of the Columbia River Basalt Group
5:00 AM-6:00 PM
Short Courses       Preparing Your Students for the Jobs They Want
9:00 AM-12:00 PM
                   
Theme Sessions           Recent Advances in Mineral Resources Research and Exploration
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Advancements in Geologic Carbon Sequestration in Basalt
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Continental Mafic Volcanism I: Honoring the Career of Vic Camp
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Structure and Tectonics of the North American Cordillera and Rocky Mountains I
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Exceptional Floods in the Cordillera
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Recent Advances in Mineral Resources Research and Exploration (Posters)
9:00 AM-5:30 PM
Advancements in Geologic Carbon Sequestration in Basalt (Posters)
9:00 AM-5:30 PM
Paleontology in the West: Fossils, Localities, Research, and Education in the Rocky Mountain and Cordilleran Regions (Posters)
9:00 AM-5:30 PM
New Developments in the Magmatic Drivers of Cascades Volcanism (Posters)
9:00 AM-5:30 PM
Using Geologic and Geophysical Data to Unravel Neotectonics and Long-term Deformation across Cascadia (Posters)
9:00 AM-5:30 PM
Structure and Tectonics of the North American Cordillera and Rocky Mountains (Posters)
9:00 AM-5:30 PM
Management of Hydrologic and Geologic Resources (Posters)
9:00 AM-5:30 PM
Exceptional Floods in the Cordillera (Posters)
9:00 AM-5:30 PM
Magmatic Rare Earth Element Ore Deposits and Minerals for the Future
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Faults, Fractures, and Fluids: Structural Control of Fluid Flow, Fault Zones, and Hydrothermal Processes
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Continental Mafic Volcanism II: Honoring the Career of Vic Camp
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Structure and Tectonics of the North American Cordillera and Rocky Mountains II
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Landscape Evolution and Geomorphology of the Greater Pacific Northwest and Northern Rockies
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Mineral Deposits of the Western United States I: A View from the States and Industry
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
The Boring Billion was not so Boring! Mesoproterozoic Tectonics, Sedimentation, and Geochronology of Northwest Laurentia I
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Paleontology in the West: Fossils, Localities, Research, and Education in the Rocky Mountain and Cordilleran Regions
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Distributed Volcanic Fields in Western North America (Lightning Talks)
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Management of Hydrologic and Geologic Resources I
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Mineral Deposits of the Western United States: A View from the States and Industry (Posters)
9:00 AM-5:30 PM
Distributed Volcanic Fields in Western North America (Posters)
9:00 AM-5:30 PM
Undergraduate Research (Posters)
9:00 AM-5:30 PM
Mineral Deposits of the Western United States II: A View from the States and Industry
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
The Boring Billion was not so Boring! Mesoproterozoic Tectonics, Sedimentation, and Geochronology of Northwest Laurentia II
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
The Highest and the Deepest: the U.S. Frontier of Cave and Karst Research
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Management of Hydrologic and Geologic Resources II
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Undergraduate and Graduate Geoscience Student Lightning Talk Showcase (Lightning Talks)
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Geochemistry, Hydrology, and Microbiology in the Yellowstone and Other Western North American Hydrothermal Systems
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
New Developments in the Magmatic Drivers of Cascades Volcanism
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Neotectonics Across the Intermountain West from New Data to Classic Concepts
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Implications of Lithosphere-Crust interactions within the Northern Cordillera
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Undergraduate and Graduate Geoscience Student Lightning Talk Showcase (Posters)
9:00 AM-1:30 PM
Mapping the West (Posters)
9:00 AM-1:30 PM