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| 2011 ANNUAL MEETING & EXPOSITION |
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ARCHEAN TO ANTHROPOCENE:
The Past is the Key to the Future
9–12 October • Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Registration
Events are filling up! Register before midnight MDT, 6 Sept., to take advantage of lower fees and to ensure your space on field trips, short courses, special events, and guest tours.
Remember, speakers must also register for the meeting in order to present research.
Student Travel Grants
Remember to apply online for a Student Travel Grant after you register for the meeting! The deadline to apply is midnight MDT, 6 Sept. |
Technical Program
1. Browse the program schedule
2. Use the Personal Scheduler to create your own schedule, check it for conflicts, record notes, download it to your PDA or smart phone, or print for easy reference.
3. Stay tuned for information on GSA’s new Mobile Meeting App!
Sign up today if you need childcare during the Annual Meeting!
This program requires a minimum number of participants so sign up before the 9 Sept. deadline to ensure availability. Parents have only great things to say about KiddieCorp.
GSA’s Group Hotel Rates Available Until 6 Sept.
Do you want complimentary internet? Do you want to be at the headquarters hotel? Do you want to be at the same hotel as your colleagues? Whatever your priority is, make sure you reserve your hotel room today. [ hotel reservations ]
Fresh Air Anyone?
Will you need a little pick-me-up during the Annual Meeting? Get your blood pumping by registering now and joining your friends and colleagues for a 5k run/walk on Monday, 10 Oct., at 6:30 a.m. Get your exercise in early and enjoy that guilt-free second beer at the alumni receptions that evening!
Accessibility for Special Needs
GSA is committed to making the Annual Meeting easily accessible for all. If you or your guests need auxiliary aids or services, please contact William Cox at +1-303-357-1013 or .
Graduate School Information Forum (GSIF)
There’s still space available. Promote your school and meet face to face with more than 1500 prospective students.
[ reserve your booth ]
Mentor Programs
Plan to visit a Mentor Program at the Annual Meeting in Minneapolis (Women in Geology, Geology in Government, and Geology in Industry).
 * Advice from mentors
* Networking opportunities
* Free food
[ dates, times & locations ]
Short Courses
Prices go up after 6 Sept. so don’t delay signing up for a course at the Annual Meeting.
[ view course descriptions ]
GSA Employment Service Center
Visit our website or call toll free +1-800-472-1988, ext. 1036.
* A year round online applicant data base (GSA members may post resumes for FREE)
* Job postings
* Interview services at the Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Gold For Gold
Use your gold coins and unwanted or broken gold jewelry to benefit the GSA Foundation's Medals Fund. There will be a representative at the Foundation Booth at the Annual Meeting in Minneapolis who will value your gold donation.
[ more info ]
It’s Silent Auction Time in Minneapolis
The GSA Foundation will host its annual Silent Auction at its Booth during the Annual Meeting in Minneapolis. Visit the GSAF website for more info or to donate an item for the auction. |
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| PUBLICATIONS |
NEW in the GSA Bookstore
Special Paper 480
Mélanges: Processes of Formation and Societal Significance
edited by John Wakabayashi and Yildirim Dilek
This volume covers the use of geologic indicators to discover seismic history of active faults and discusses conventional paleoseismology in strike-slip, normal, and thrust faults as well as paleoseismic data from a seismic hazard perspective.
Special Paper 479
Geological Criteria for Evaluating Seismicity Revisited: Forty Years of Paleoseismic Investigations and the Natural Record of Past Earthquakes
edited by Franck A. Audemard M., Alessandro Maria Michetti, and James P. McCalpin
This volume highlights the richness, variety, and chaotic structure of mélanges in papers from an international group of authors.
Field Guide 22
Geological Field Trips in Central Western Europe: Fragile Earth International Conference, Munich, September 2011
edited by Sara Carena, Anke M. Friedrich, and Bernd Lammerer
This series of field trips examines the records and recording tools of geological processes, from plate motions, to deep crustal structure and deformation, to near-surface processes and interactions between Earth’s surface and climate.
GEOLOGY Seeks Science Co-Editor
GSA's internationally recognized journal, Geology, invites applications and nominations for a co-science editor with a term beginning as early as January 2012.
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| GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS |
Geosciences Congressional Visits Day
You're invited to participate in this year's Geosciences Congressional Visits Day in Washington D.C. on 20–21 Sept. Help raise visibility and support for geoscience research and education during meetings with House and Senate offices. Contact Craig Schiffries, GSA's Director for Geoscience Policy, to sign up.
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| CALENDAR CLOSEUPS: ASSOCIATED SOCIETY EVENTS |
 Rocky Mountain Rendezvous (RMR)
30 Sept. - 1 Oct., University of Wyoming. At this job fair students can secure interviews with industry recruiters and engage in lots of "face time" with recruiters through field trips, short courses, banquets, poster sessions and receptions. Generous industry support allows significant cash awards to poster presenters. Limited support is also available for travel.
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| OF NOTE |
Earth Ambassador Program - NASA Climate Day
Informal educators are invited to apply to the Earth Ambassador Program for NASA’s Climate Day. The program will hold a two-day training workshop at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, in Greenbelt, Md., 13-14 Oct. 2011, with extended training on 15 Oct.. Applications are due 21 Aug..
[ more info & application ]
Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) Job Fairs and Town Hall Meetings
The "For the People" Jobs Initiative Tour stops in Los Angeles on 31 Aug. More than 100 employers and at least 15 members of the CBC will participate.
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| ON THE WIRE … |
A SAMPLING OF GSA IN THE NEWS |
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A 5 Aug. article in the Summit County Voice (Calif., USA), “Forest-killing fungi could multiply in a warming world,” and an 8 Aug. Enterprise Post Science News article, “Fungi Helped Destroy Forests During Mass Extinction 250 Million Years Ago,” both cover a Sept. Geology article by H. Visscher et al., “Fungal virulence at the time of the end-Permian biosphere crisis?” (posted online ahead of print on 5 Aug.).
[ Visscher abstract | Summit County Voice | Enterprise Post ]
A 7 Aug. article, “Scientists perform quake research on Carrizo Plain,” in the online version of the San Luis Obispo (Calif., USA) Tribune discusses new work on the San Andreas fault by Lisa Grant Ludwig and colleagues and references their 2010 Geology article (with lead author S.O. Akçiz), “Century-long average time intervals between earthquake ruptures of the San Andreas fault in the Carrizo Plain, California.”
[ Akçiz abstract | Tribune ]
A 12 Aug. BBC News article “Another giant UK ash cloud ‘unlikely’ in our lifetimes,” covers a Sept. 2011 Geology science by G.T. Swindles et al., “A 7000 yr perspective on volcanic ash clouds affecting northern Europe,” which was posted online ahead of print on 5 Aug.
[ Swindles abstract | BBC News ]
A Sept. 2011 Geology article by S.L. Loewy and colleagues, “Coats Land crustal block, East Antarctica: A tectonic tracer for Laurentia?,” which was posted online ahead of print on 5 Aug., received coverage on The Huffington Post, My Fox Houston, and UPI.com, and was featured in a 15 Aug. National Geographic News article, “Texas and Antarctica Were Attached, Rocks Hint.”
[ Loewy abstract | Nat Geo ]
A 15 Aug. ABC Science (Australia) article , “Ancient reef minerals hold seawater's secrets,” covers Sept. Geology science by A.vS. Hood et al. (posted online ahead of print on 5 Aug.), “Neoproterozoic aragonite-dolomite seas? Widespread marine dolomite precipitation in Cryogenian reef complexes.”
[ Hood abstract | ABC Science ]
An 18 Aug. Yahoo! News (via LiveScience.com) “Drifting Antarctic Dunes Sign of Changing Climate”: details a Sept. Geology article by C.S. Bristow et al., Is climate change affecting rates of dune migration in Antarctica?
[ Bristow abstract | Yahoo! News ]
An 18 Aug. Wired Science “News for Your Neurons” blog post titled “Mystery fossils link fungi to ancient mass extinction”: covers August and September Geology science: “Did the great dying of life take 700 k.y.? Evidence from global astronomical correlation of the Permian-Triassic boundary interval,” by C. Huang et al. (August issue posted ahead of print on 1 July) and Sept. Geology by H. Visscher et al., “Fungal virulence at the time of the end-Permian biosphere crisis?” posted ahead of print on 5 August.
[ Visscher abstract | Huang abstract | Wired Science ] |
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| GEOSCIENCE TRIVIA |
- On what fossilized creature would you find a pygidium?
- What term is given for all the materials that exist between fresh rock and the atmosphere?
- What term is given to the materials that glue grains together in a sedimentary rock?
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