Joint 60th Annual Northeastern/59th Annual North-Central Section Meeting - 2025

  THURSDAY
27 March
FRIDAY
28 March
SATURDAY
29 March
SUNDAY
30 March
MONDAY
31 March
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Discipline Sessions       D1. Sediments, Stratigraphy, and Geomorphology Contributions
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
D7. Structural Geology, Geophysics, Tectonics, and Petrology Contributions (Posters)
8:30 AM-5:30 PM
  D2. Contributions in Solid Earth, Hydrogeology, and Environmental Geoscience
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
D4. Geoscience Communication, Education, and History and Philosophy of Geology Contributions (Posters)
8:30 AM-2:30 PM
D5. Contributions from Paleontology, Paleoclimatology, and Geoarchaeology (Posters)
8:30 AM-2:30 PM
D6. Sediments, Stratigraphy, Geomorphology, and Coastal Geoscience Contributions (Posters)
8:30 AM-2:30 PM
D3. Contributions in Environmental Geoscience, Geochemistry, and Hydrogeology (Posters)
8:30 AM-2:30 PM
   
Events Exhibitor Hall | Exhibitor Set-up
9:00 AM-5:00 PM
Registration
2:00 PM-8:00 PM
Speaker Ready Room
4:00 PM-8:00 PM
Exhibit Hall
6:00 PM-8:00 PM
Opening Reception
6:00 PM-8:00 PM
Session Chair Orientation
7:00 AM-7:15 AM
Registration
7:00 AM-5:00 PM
Speaker Ready Room
7:00 AM-6:00 PM
Geoscience Career Program Workshop Part 1: Career Planning and Informational Interviewing
9:00 AM-10:00 AM
Exhibit Hall
9:00 AM-5:00 PM
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 Meet-Up
2:00 PM-3:00 PM
Career Networking Meet & Greet – Connect with professionals in the field!
3:00 PM-4:00 PM
GSA North-Central Section Management Business Meeting
5:30 PM-6:00 PM
LGBTQ Reception
6:00 PM-7:30 PM
Northeastern Tectonics Reception
6:00 PM-7:30 PM
SEPM Meeting and Reception. Adrienne Oakley presents A Coastal Sedimentary Record of Late Pleistocene-Holocene Environmental Change in the Delmarva Region using GPR and Vibracore Analyses from Greenbackville and Savage Neck Dunes, Virginia.
6:00 PM-7:30 PM
Session Chair Orientation
7:00 AM-7:15 AM
Registration
7:00 AM-5:00 PM
Speaker Ready Room
7:00 AM-6:00 PM
Geoscience Career Program Workshop Part 3: Cover Letters, Résumés, and CVs
9:00 AM-10:00 AM
Exhibit Hall
9:00 AM-5:00 PM
GSA Northeastern Section Management Board and Business Meeting
12:00 PM-1:30 PM
John Mann Mentors Program in Applied Hydrogeology
12:00 PM-1:30 PM
Nathan Niemi Town Hall with Melanie Brandt (Open Bar)
6:00 PM-7:00 PM
Plenary Address: Climbing Darwin's Ladder with Dr. Patrick Burkhart
7:00 PM-8:00 PM
Map and Art Blast (Free Pizza)
8:00 PM-9:00 PM
Session Chair Orientation
7:00 AM-7:15 AM
Speaker Ready Room
7:00 AM-12:00 PM
Registration
7:00 AM-2:00 PM
Exhibit Hall
9:00 AM-2:30 PM
Exhibitor Hall | Exhibitor Tear Down
2:30 PM-5:00 PM
 
Field Trips Back in Time through the End Devonian Mass Extinction in Western New York.
7:00 AM-5:30 PM
*Sold Out* Geology and organic design of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Graycliff on Lake Erie in western New York State, USA
8:00 AM-5:00 PM
Famennian Trace Fossils Including Rusophycus-like Megaburrows, Covered Bridges, Beach Ridges and Terroir of Ashtabula County and Western Pennsylvania.
8:00 AM-5:30 PM
Bluff Retreat, Sediment Budgets, and Erosion Mitigation on the NW Pennsylvania Coast of Lake Erie.
8:30 AM-4:00 PM
  Shifting Sands and Anthropogenic Modifications along the Presque Isle Strandplain on the NW Pennsylvania Coast of Lake Erie. (Friday Morning)
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Shifting Sands and Anthropogenic Modifications along the Presque Isle Strandplain on the NW Pennsylvania Coast of Lake Erie. (Friday Afternoon)
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Shifting Sands and Anthropogenic Modifications along the Presque Isle Strandplain on the NW Pennsylvania Coast of Lake Erie. (Saturday Morning)
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Shifting Sands and Anthropogenic Modifications along the Presque Isle Strandplain on the NW Pennsylvania Coast of Lake Erie. (Saturday Afternoon)
1:30 PM-5:00 PM
Shifting Sands and Anthropogenic Modifications along the Presque Isle Strandplain on the NW Pennsylvania Coast of Lake Erie. (Sunday Morning)
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Landforms and Sedimentology of Erie Bluffs State Park.
1:00 PM-6:00 PM
Shifting Sands and Anthropogenic Modifications along the Presque Isle Strandplain on the NW Pennsylvania Coast of Lake Erie. (Sunday Afternoon)
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Early Use of Vermont Marble, and the Use of Other Domestic and Imported Stones over Two Hundred Years, in Erie, Pennsylvania.
8:30 AM-5:00 PM
Structural Geology in Erie, Pennsylvania.
9:00 AM-3:00 PM
Short Courses   Ground Penetrating Radar - Principles, Practice and Processing
1:00 PM-5:00 PM
             
Theme Sessions     Back to the Devonian: Revisiting Milestones of Paleontology and Stratigraphy from 1985
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Petrotectonic Processes in Convergent Margins: Insights from Laurentia and Beyond
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Fluvial Geomorphology of Post-glacial (and Other) Rivers
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Groundwater Mapping and Monitoring
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Undergraduate Research Poster Session I
8:30 AM-5:30 PM
Paleolimnological Records of Climate and Environmental Change (Posters)
8:30 AM-5:30 PM
Advances in Characterizing and Treating Contaminants in Water Resources
8:30 AM-5:30 PM
Groundwater Mapping and Monitoring (Posters)
8:30 AM-5:30 PM
Northeast Water Cycle Research: Collaborative Studies of Watershed Processes to Address Water Resource Challenges in a Changing Climate (Posters)
8:30 AM-5:30 PM
Fluvial Geomorphology of Post-glacial (and Other) Rivers (Posters)
8:30 AM-5:30 PM
Back to the Devonian: Revisiting Milestones of Paleontology and Stratigraphy from 1985 (Posters)
8:30 AM-5:30 PM
Multidisciplinary Insights from Field and Laboratory Data on Modern and Ancient Plate Margin Processes
8:30 AM-5:30 PM
Tell Me a Story! Communication and Outreach in the Geosciences (Posters)
8:30 AM-5:30 PM
Paleolimnological Records of Climate and Environmental Change
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Tectonic Processes in the Circum-Atlantic Orogens I: A Celebration of the Career of Rob Strachan
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Northeast Water Cycle Research: Collaborative Studies of Watershed Processes to Address Water Resource Challenges in a Changing Climate
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Undergraduate and Graduate Geoscience Student Showcase (Lightning Talks)
8:00 AM-9:30 AM
Tectonic Processes in the Circum-Atlantic Orogens II: A Celebration of the Career of Rob Strachan
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Reconstructing Environmental Change from Marine, Lacustrine, and Terrestrial Sedimentary Records
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Tell Me a Story! Communication and Outreach in the Geosciences I
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Undergraduate Research Poster Session II
8:30 AM-5:30 PM
Great Lakes Coastal Processes and Changes (Posters)
8:30 AM-5:30 PM
Paleozoic Vertebrate Evolution, Diversity, and Phylogeny
8:30 AM-5:30 PM
Reconstructing Environmental Change from Marine, Lacustrine, and Terrestrial Sedimentary Records (Posters)
8:30 AM-5:30 PM
Undergraduate and Graduate Geoscience Student Showcase (Posters)
8:30 AM-5:30 PM
Petrotectonic Processes in Convergent Margins: Insights from Laurentia and Beyond (Posters)
8:30 AM-5:30 PM
Bio-landscaping: Advancing Ichnological and Biogeomorpological Research
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Quantitative and Specimen-Based Approaches to Address Big Paleontology Questions
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Tell Me a Story! Communication and Outreach in the Geosciences II
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Geological Connections to Northeast Ohio: Sedimentary, Environmental, and Cultural Aspects of NE Ohio Geology
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Outer Space Rocks! Enhancing the Understanding of our Planetary Neighbors
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Orphan Wells, Fugitive Hydrocarbons, and a Legacy of Efforts Toward a Brighter Future
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Bio-landscaping: Advancing Ichnological and Biogeomorpological Research (Posters)
8:30 AM-2:30 PM
Recent Research in Late Quaternary Landscapes, Paleoenvironments and Geoarchaeology of Eastern North America (Posters)
8:30 AM-2:30 PM
Applied Geological Investigations at State Geological Surveys in the Northeastern and North Central Sections of GSA (Posters)
8:30 AM-2:30 PM
Mapping in the Geosciences: Processes and Products
8:30 AM-2:30 PM
Applied Geological Investigations at State Geological Surveys in the Northeastern and North Central Sections of GSA
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
The Legacy of Coal Mining - Geology, History, Environmental Impacts, and Public Health
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Great Lakes Coastal Processes and Changes
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Recent Research in Late Quaternary Landscapes, Paleoenvironments and Geoarchaeology of Eastern North America
1:30 PM-5:30 PM