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Happy Holidays and Best Wishes for the New Year
GSA wishes you a happy holiday season and a very prosperous new year. It is our privilege to serve your professional needs.
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Supporting Students |
Graduate Student Research Grants
Application deadline: 1 Feb. 2011
If you have not received a GSA graduate student research grant in the past, why not apply this year? You may receive up to $4000 to aid in your research. The application process is simple — no transcripts required!
[ learn more ]
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Education & Outreach |
GeoCorps™ America 2011
Application deadline: 1 Feb. 2011
GSA and its partner agencies — the U.S. National Park Service, the U.S. Forest Service, and the Bureau of Land Management — are happy to offer more than ninety paid summer geoscience jobs on America's most amazing public lands this year. All levels of geologists — students, educators, professionals, and retirees — are encouraged to apply, and past GeoCorps participants are eligible to apply as Guest Scientists.
[ learn more | Mount Rainier Volunteers blog post about GeoCorps ]
New to GeoCorps
[ diversity internships | American Indian internships ]
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GSA Division News |
History of Geology Division Makes Historic Change
GSA's first Division (Engineering Geology) was established in 1947, and GSA has now grown to encompass 17 specialty Divisions. Over the past 60+ years, GSA has not had a Division change its name — until now: GSA's History of Geology Division (est. in 1976) announces its new title: the History and Philosophy of Geology Division (HPG). To explain the change, HPG officers write, "It has been said that history is philosophy learned from examples. This recent Division name change is in the spirit of bringing the scholarly insights of historians and philosophers of geology to bear on such fundamental issues as how geology differs from other sciences in its methods, what it means for geology to be a historical science, how new methodologies are changing the nature of geological inquiry, and how the methods of past geologists like Hutton, Lyell, and Gilbert continue to exemplify unique aspects of geology as a science."
[ HPG website | join a Division (or two…) ]
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Meetings |
2011 GSA North American Section Meetings
Northeastern/North-Central Joint Meeting
From Shield to Sea
20–22 March • Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Abstract deadline: Extended to 16 Dec. due to winter storm
Early registration deadline: 14 Feb.
[ submit abstract | register ]
Southeastern Section Meeting
Exploration to Exploitation: Geosciences' Role in Natural Resource Stewardship
23–25 March • Wilmington, North Carolina, USA
Early registration deadline: 22 Feb.
[ learn more ]
South-Central Section Meeting
27–29 March • New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Abstract deadline: 18 Jan.
[ submit abstract ]
Rocky Mountain/Cordilleran Joint Meeting
18–20 May • Logan, Utah, USA
Abstract deadline: 15 Feb.
[ submit abstract ]
2011 Annual Meeting
Archean to Anthropocene—The past is the key to the future
9–12 October 2011 • Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Call for Proposals
• Technical Sessions: Deadline 11 Jan.
• Short courses: Deadline 1 Feb.
Make your research and the work of your colleagues part of the program for 2011. Generate interest in your topic and share your knowledge and experience with thousands.
New for 2011—Digital Posters: Do you have an idea for a digital poster session? If so, be sure to indicate this when you submit your technical session proposal. Additional abstract submission fees will apply for use of a digital poster display.
2010 Annual Meeting Lost & Found
Every year, GSA comes home with things that don't belong to us. If you're missing something, please let us know, and we'll check our lost & found box. We still have jewelry and other items from the 2009 meeting as well.
[ contact lost & found at ]
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Publications News |
NOW in the GSA Bookstore
2011 Calendar
Visions of the Dynamic Landscape
Stunning Earth images make this 2011 calendar a real page-turner. Coupled with notes on important dates and moments in geoscience history, this new calendar from GSA will keep you informed and intrigued throughout the coming year. All images were originally submitted to the 2009 GSA Annual Meeting photo contest & exhibit.
Seeking Science Editors
GSA's internationally recognized journals Geology and Lithosphere invite applications and nominations for science editors, with terms to begin in January 2012 (or earlier if desired).
[ learn more about Geology | learn more about Lithosphere | download flyer (PDF) ]
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GSA Associated Societies Calendar Closeups |
Seismological Society of America Annual Meeting
13–15 April 2011 • Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Abstract deadline: 11 Jan. 2011
Meeting activities will include a commemoration of the bicentennial of the great 1811 and 1812 New Madrid earthquakes that forever changed the mid-western U.S. landscape.
[ learn more ]
EGU General Assembly
3–8 April 2011 • Vienna, Austria
Abstract deadline: 10 Jan. 2011
You're invited to participate in this GSA-GSL cosponsored session: "Teleconnections: Far-field links in sedimentary source-to-sink systems."
[ learn more ]
CAG23 — 23rd Colloquium of African Geology
YES Africa 2011 Symposium
8–14 Jan. 2011 • Johannesburg, South Africa
The YES Network (young earth-scientists) is hosting a YES Africa 2011 Symposium in conjunction with CAG23. It will be the YES Network's first fully web-streamed conference, and registration for web-based participants is free. Web-based participants will be able to listen to the opening ceremony, oral presentations, and roundtable presentations, and take part in the roundtable sessions' virtual working group discussions.
[ YES symposium | CAG23 website ]
View complete geoscience calendar
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Of Note |
UNESCO Young Professional Programme
The Young Professional Programme, which provides ten recent college graduates and young professionals under the age of 30 with the opportunity to start a career in an international organization, is now accepting applications. The program is geared specifically for candidates from unrepresented or underrepresented countries in the UNESCO Secretariat, including the United States. Geology is one of the preferred areas of specialization.
[ learn more | contact GSA's Craig Schiffries (UNESCO member) ]
Laura W. Bush Traveling Fellowship
This fellowship will help fund a student applicant's proposal to conduct brief work outside the U.S. related to UNESCO's mandate to use education, natural sciences, social and human sciences, culture, and/or communication and information to build strong ties among nations. Application deadline: 4 Feb. 2011.
[ learn more ]
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Government Affairs |
Serve Geoscience & Impact Public Policy
Be the 2011–2012 GSA-USGS Congressional Science Fellow
Application deadline: 1 Feb. 2011
Put your expertise and experience to work helping shape science and technology policy on Capitol Hill in concert with national and international leaders.
[ learn more ]
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GSA Foundation |
Advancing the Geosciences
The GSA Foundation exists to promote the science of geology and to provide funds for GSA programs that are consistent with the Society's mission. Don't forget: December 31st is the last day for you to make a donation that qualifies as a 2010 tax deduction.
[ learn more | donate ]
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Touchpoints |
A SAMPLING OF GSA IN THE NEWS |
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A 3 Dec. National Geographic Daily News article, "New Biggest Volcano in the Solar System?" highlights Mars' Tharsis Rise research by A. Borgia and J.B. Murray, just published in GSA Special Paper 470: What Is a Volcano? (edited by E. Cañón-Tapia and A. Szakács).
[ Borgia and Murray abstract | book abstract | National Geographic article ]
The Nov. 2010 GSA Today science article by A.C. Runkel et al., "Tropical shoreline ice in the late Cambrian: Implications for Earth's climate between the Cambrian Explosion and the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event," inspired a 24 Nov. "Through the Sandglass" blog post, "Sand and ice 1: deep time and the struggles of life."
[ GSA Today article | Through the Sandglass post ]
The Dec. 2010 Geology paper, "Evidence for Pleistocene lakes in the Tushka region, south Egypt," by T.A. Maxwell et al., captured a slew of media attention, including articles in ScienceNews (24 Nov., "Shuttle images reveal Egypt's lost great lake") and Discovery.com (3 Dec., "Ancient mega-lake found in Egyptian desert"), as well as LiveScience.com, Wired Science, DNA India, MSNBC, and "Our Amazing Planet."
[ abstract | ScienceNews article | Discovery.com article ]
S. Sahney et al.'s Dec. 2010 Geology paper, "Rainforest collapse triggered Carboniferous tetrapod diversification in Euramerica," also received good media coverage, including the BBC News story "Rainforest collapse kickstarted reptile evolution" (30 Nov.).
[ abstract | BBC News story ]
"Eolian input into the Late Ordovician postglacial Soom Shale, South Africa" (Dec. 2010 Geology), by S.E. Gabbott et al., was covered by Terra Daily, Red Orbit, and Yahoo! News India.
[ abstract | Terra Daily article ]
Space Daily reported on the Nov.-Dec. 2010 GSA Bulletin paper by A.J. Cavosie et al., "A record of ancient cataclysm in modern sand: Shock microstructures in detrital minerals from the Vaal River, Vredefort Dome, South Africa," in an article titled "Evidence of ancient impact preserved in modern sand."
[ abstract | Space Daily article ]
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Geoscience Trivia |
- What destroyed the small town of Laupahoehoe on 1 April 1946?
- To what part of Earth does the term edaphic refer?
- What name is given to alluvial gold deposits that were once streambeds that have been covered by lava flows?
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