South-Central Section - 59th Annual Meeting - 2025

	SATURDAY 8 March	SUNDAY 9 March		MONDAY 10 March		TUESDAY 11 March
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Discipline Sessions			D1. Exploring Hazards, Life, and the Environment: Insights from the Past, Present, and Future (Posters) 1:30 PM-5:00 PM D2. Igneous and Metamorphic Processes — From Kimberlites to Meteorites (Posters) 1:30 PM-5:00 PM	D1. Exploring Hazards, Life, and the Environment: Insights from the Past, Present, and Future 10:00 AM-12:00 PM	D3. North American Rifts, Faults, and Tectonic Activity 1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Events		Exhibitor Hall \| Exhibitor Set-up 9:00 AM-5:00 PM Registration 10:00 AM-7:00 PM Speaker Ready Room 10:30 AM-11:30 AM	GSA South-Central Section Management Board Meeting 12:15 PM-1:15 PM Speaker Ready Room 1:00 PM-4:00 PM Session Chairs/Student Volunteer Orientation 1:15 PM-1:25 PM Coffee Break 3:10 PM-3:30 PM Exhibit Hall 5:00 PM-7:00 PM Welcome Reception 5:00 PM-7:00 PM	Speaker Ready Room 7:30 AM-11:00 AM Registration 7:30 AM-4:30 PM Session Chairs/Student Volunteer Orientation 7:45 AM-7:55 AM 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 Coffee Break 9:40 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 Speaker Ready Room 1:00 PM-3:00 PM Geology Club Meet-Up 2:00 PM-3:00 PM Coffee Break 3:10 PM-3:30 PM South-Central Section Business Meeting 5:00 PM-5:15 PM GSA Town Hall with Melanie Brandt, CEO of GSA 5:15 PM-6:00 PM Rock N Rogue Geo-social, Registration Required 6:00 PM-9:00 PM	Registration 7:30 AM-2:00 PM Session Chairs/Student Volunteer Orientation 7:45 AM-7:55 AM Speaker Ready Room 7:45 AM-12:00 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 Coffee Break 9:40 AM-10:00 AM	John Mann Mentors Program in Applied Hydrogeology 12:00 PM-1:30 PM Coffee Break 3:10 PM-3:30 PM
Short Courses	Using R software to download and process Water Quality Portal datasets 1:00 PM-5:00 PM	LiDAR: A tool for geologic and geohazard mapping 9:00 AM-12:00 PM Trace fossils of Arkansas 10:00 AM-12:00 PM
Theme Sessions			Geology from the Ozark Plateaus to the Arkoma Basin 1:30 PM-5:00 PM Critical Minerals in the South-Central United States (Posters) 1:30 PM-5:00 PM Sedimentary Processes and Resources of the Northern Mississippi Embayment 1:30 PM-5:30 PM	Karst Terrains 8:00 AM-12:00 PM Late Paleozoic Orogenesis from the Southern and Eastern Convergent Margins of Laurentia to the Mid-Continent: Records of Appalachian, Ouachita-Marathon, and Contemporaneous Intraplate Deformation 8:00 AM-12:00 PM Late Paleozoic Orogenesis from the Southern and Eastern Convergent Margins of Laurentia to the Mid-Continent: Records of Appalachian, Ouachita-Marathon, and Contemporaneous Intraplate Deformation (Posters) 8:30 AM-5:00 PM Undergraduate Research (Posters) 8:30 AM-5:00 PM Geophysical Investigations in the Mid-Continent (Posters) 8:30 AM-5:00 PM	Student Field Experiences in the South-Central U.S. 1:30 PM-5:30 PM Emerging Resources in the Gulf of Mexico Basin 1:30 PM-5:30 PM	Water, Water Everywhere: Hydrology and Water Quality in the South-Central U.S. 8:00 AM-12:00 PM Critical Minerals in the South-Central United States 8:00 AM-12:00 PM Advancing Geosciences through Geospatial Innovations 8:00 AM-12:00 PM Student Field Experiences in the South-Central U.S. (Posters) 8:30 AM-5:00 PM Geological Mapping in the South-Central Region of the United States (Posters) 8:30 AM-5:00 PM Karst Terrains (Posters) 8:30 AM-5:00 PM Water, Water Everywhere: Hydrology and Water Quality in the South-Central U.S. (Posters) 8:30 AM-5:00 PM Advancing Geosciences through Geospatial Innovations (Posters) 8:30 AM-5:00 PM	Geophysical Investigations in the Mid-Continent 1:30 PM-5:30 PM The Value of Core and Cuttings in Obtaining Information on Basement Rocks of the Midcontinent 1:30 PM-5:30 PM