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GSA Welcomes AGU as our 59th Associated Society
GSA is pleased to announce a new alliance with our like-minded partner in advancing the geosciences. GSA and AGU have worked in collaboration for years on public policy issues. Now AGU and GSA members are entitled to attend each others' meetings at member rates and enjoy all the attendant benefits of this new partnership!
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International Conference — Last Call for Abstracts
FRAGILE EARTH: Geological Processes from Global to Local Scales, Associated Hazards & Resources
4–7 Sept. 2011 • Munich, Germany
Abstracts deadline: 25 May
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2011 GSA Annual Meeting & Exposition
ARCHEAN TO ANTHROPOCENE: The Past is the Key to the Future • 9–12 October
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Get Involved with the 2012 GSA Section Meetings
All six of GSA's North American Sections will be holding meetings next year — in Texas, Connecticut, North Carolina, Ohio, New Mexico, and even Querétaro, México! If you have an idea for a symposium, theme session, field trip, or workshop for any of these meetings, please contact the local meeting chair.
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Would you like to see a meeting in your city? GSA's Sections are looking NOW for places of interest to host meetings in 2013 and beyond.
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| Education & Outreach |
GeoCorps™ America
Fall/Winter Season: Sept. 2011–May 2012
Application deadline: 1 July
All fall/winter 2011–2012 GeoCorps positions are now posted on the GeoCorps website. GSA's GeoCorps program provides paid, short-term geoscience jobs on public lands managed by the U.S. National Park Service, Forest Service, and Bureau of Land Management. All levels of geologists are encouraged to apply. |
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| Grants, Awards & Recognition |
Stephen E. Laubach Structural Diagenesis Research Award Fund
Nominations due: 1 July
This award, cosponsored by GSA's Sedimentary Geology and Structural Geology and Tectonics Divisions, promotes research combining structural geology and diagenesis, and curriculum development in structural diagenesis.
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Kerry Kelts Student Research Awards of GSA's Limnogeology Division
Nominations due: 1 August
These awards for undergraduate or graduate student research are named in honor of Kerry Kelts, a visionary limnogeologist and inspiring teacher.
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Richard Hay Student Paper/Poster Award of GSA's Archaeological Geology Division
Nominations due: 20 September
This travel grant is awarded to a student presenting a paper or poster at the GSA's annual meeting and is based on the evaluation of the scientific merit of the research topic and the clarity of an expanded abstract for the paper or poster.
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| Publications News |
NEW in the GSA Bookstore
Special Paper 476
Geoarchaeology, Climate Change, and Sustainability
Edited by Antony G. Brown, Laura S. Basell, and Karl W. Butzer
Find out how geoarchaeological techniques can answer questions on topics ranging from the effects of past environmental change to Paleolithic hunting to the location of Homer's Ithaca.
Field Guide 21
Geologic Field Trips to the Basin and Range, Rocky Mountains, Snake River Plain, and Terranes of the U.S. Cordillera
Edited by Jeffrey Lee and James P. Evans
This field guide, compiled for the 2011 joint meeting of the GSA Rocky Mountain and Cordilleran Sections, provides a small yet succulent appetizer to the full menu of remarkable geology of the Rocky Mountain and Cordillera regions.
It's back and it's new!
A revised Earth Scientist's Periodic Table of the Elements and Their Ions is in the bookstore — at the same low price. Author L. Bruce Railsback continues to tweak his unique and useful chart, so even if you already have the previous version, buy the new one and search for the differences!
Back in Print: Special Paper 422
Geology of México: Celebrating the Centenary of the Geological Society of México
Edited by Susana A. Alaniz-Álvarez and Ángel F. Nieto-Samaniego
This popular collection of papers on the state of the art in some areas of Mexican geology is back in the bookstore.
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GSA Panel Seeks Input on Position Statement DRAFT: The Importance of Teaching Earth Science
Please submit your comments and suggestions by 15 July 2011.
[ read DRAFT (PDF) | add your comments ]
Revised Position Statements Adopted
In April 2011, GSA Council approved revised position statements on Public Investment in Earth Science Research and the Role of Government in Mineral and Energy Resources Research.
[ research statement | mineral and energy statement ]
GSA Joins Task Force on American Innovation
GSA is the only geoscience society on the task force, which includes the Association of American Universities, the American Chemical Society, the American Physical Society, Business Roundtable, Council on Competitiveness, and Google. The alliance advocates for sustained research budgets at the National Science Foundation, the Dept. of Energy's Office of Science, NASA, and other agencies.
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Geosciences Featured at Congressional Science Exhibition
GSA, AGI, and AGU co-sponsored geoscience exhibits at the 17th Annual Coalition for National Science Funding Exhibition and Reception on Capitol Hill on 11 May. Timothy Bralower of Penn State, Chris Reddy of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and David James of the Carnegie Institution of Washington discussed research on abrupt climate change, the Deepwater Horizon spill, and the Yellowstone supervolcano, respectively. Representatives Fattah Chaka (D-PA), Rush Holt (D-NJ), and Glenn Thompson (R-PA) were among the many visitors at the geoscience exhibits.
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GSA Co-Sponsors Congressional Briefing on Earthquakes and the Nation's Buildings
Following the recent string of earthquakes in Haiti, Chile, New Zealand, and Japan, GSA co-sponsored a congressional briefing that focused on the ability of buildings in the U.S. to resist seismic activity.
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National Academies Releases Final Report on America's Climate Choices
On 12 May, the National Academies released America's Climate Choices, the final volume in a series of reports requested by Congress. The new report says, "Climate change is occurring, is very likely caused by human activities, and poses significant risks for a broad range of human and natural systems." According to the report, "Waiting for unacceptable impacts to occur before taking action is imprudent because the effects of greenhouse gas emissions do not fully manifest themselves for decades and, once manifested, many of these changes will persist for hundreds or even thousands of years."
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Contact Craig Schiffries, GSA's Director for Geoscience Policy, if you have questions or need more information about any facet of GSA's work in Washington, DC.
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| Of Note |
Colorado Carbon Fund
The April 2011 issue of the Colorado Carbon Fund E-Newsletter includes an article on GSA's carbon offset efforts, titled "'Gneiss'ly Done: GSA Offsets 2010 Annual Meeting."
[ learn more (PDF; see page 3) ]
British Geological Society: London Earth
The British Geological Society has a new interactive Web page, London Earth, which details a systematic high-density geochemical soil survey of the Greater London Area.
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About.com: Geography: Stream Order First Proposed in GSA Bulletin
A recent post on the About.com: Geography site discusses the classification and ranking of streams and rivers, which it notes "was officially proposed in 1952 by Arthur Newell Strahler … in his [Nov. GSA Bulletin] article 'Hypsometric (Area Altitude) Analysis of Erosional Topology.'"
[ read About.com article | read GSA Bulletin abstract ]
Encyclopedia of Earth & OCEAN-OIL
The National Council for Science and the Environment and its partners invite you to use and contribute to the most comprehensive, free, peer-reviewed resource troves about the Deepwater Horizon disaster and more via the Online Clearinghouse for Education & Networking: Oil Interdisciplinary Learning (OCEAN-OIL).
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| On the Wire … |
A SAMPLING OF GSA IN THE NEWS |
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The Dec. 2010 Lithosphere paper by J.G. Weihaupt et al., "Gravity anomalies of the Antarctic lithosphere," was featured in a 28 Apr. Cosmos magazine online article: "Asteroid impacts in Antarctica."
[ abstract | Cosmos article ]
The May 2011 issue of EARTH magazine details Mar. 2011 Geology science by G. Dera et al.: "Climatic ups and downs in a disturbed Jurassic world" (p. 8–9); R.J. Parkes et al.: "Prokaryotes stimulate mineral H2 formation for the deep biosphere and subsequent thermogenic activity" (p. 16–17); and W.A. Elders et al.: "Origin of a rhyolite that intruded a geothermal well while drilling at the Krafla volcano, Iceland" (p. 19).
[ Dera et al. abstract ][ Parkes et al. abstract | Elders et al. abstract ]
A 24 Apr. Columbus Dispatch article, "Poop piles show signs of climate change," discusses Jan. 2011 Geology articles "Late glacial interhemispheric climate dynamics revealed in South African hyrax middens," by B.M. Chase et al., AND "Synchronized postglacial colonization by magnetotactic bacteria," by Ø. Paasche and R. Løvlie.
[ Chase et al. abstract | Paasche & Løvlie abstract | Columbus Dispatch article ]
GSA's spectacular 2005 Geologic Map of North America is featured in a 3 May Discovery News article, "Life raft model for geology takes root," about the GSA Bulletin article by W.L. Griffin et al., "Archean lithospheric mantle beneath Arkansas: Continental growth by microcontinent accretion," published online on 12 Apr. The Griffin et al. article received mention in the 24 April ScienceNews News in Brief Earth/Environment section.
[ abstract | Discovery News article | ScienceNews article | Geologic Map of North America ]
The GSA Bulletin article by S. Passchier et al., "Early and middle Miocene Antarctic glacial history from the sedimentary facies distribution in the AND-2A drill hole, Ross Sea, Antarctica," published online 18 Apr., received mention in the 30 Apr. ScienceNews News in Brief Earth/Environment section in a piece titled "How Antarctica got its ice."
[ abstract | ScienceNews article ]
A 10 May National Geographic Daily News article, "Mount St. Helens Erupts Again—This Time in 3-D," highlights research by T. Esposti Ongaro et al., "Multiphase-flow numerical modeling of the 18 May 1980 lateral blast at Mount St. Helens, USA," a Geology pre-issue publication article posted online 4 May.
[ abstract | National Geographic Daily News article ]
A 12 May Wired Science blog post "Tiny iron spheres are oldest fossilized space dust," details the Geology article, "Composition and accretion rate of fossil micrometeorites recovered in Middle Triassic deep-sea deposits," by T. Onoue et al., which was published online ahead of print on 4 May.
[ abstract | Wired Science article ]
The ahead-of-print Geology article (posted 4 May) by J.-P. Goiran et al., "Piraeus, the ancient island of Athens: Evidence from Holocene sediments and historical archives" received mention in the 14 May ScienceNews News in Brief Earth/Environment section in a piece titled "Athens' ancient island."
[ abstract | ScienceNews article ]
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| GSA's Falklands, South Georgia, and Antarctica Voyage |
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Explore Antarctica!
27 Dec. 2012–20 Jan. 2013
Voyage to celebrate GSA's 125th Anniversary in 2013. Travel onboard the Akademik Ioffe for an exciting Antarctic experience.
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| Geoscience Trivia |
- What do rocks referred to as arenaceous contain?
- What name is given to the unsorted, un-layered materials deposited by a glacier?
- What term is given to the mudflow of pyroclastic material down the flank of a volcano?
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