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GSA TODAY | OCTOBER 2015Preliminary Announcement and Call for Papers to air transportation, and Amtrak rail serves Urbana-Champaign.
In celebration of the 50th year of North-Central Section meetings,
NORTH-CENTRAL SECTION we look forward to presentations and posters that highlight
advancements in the geosciences since 1967, review developments
50th Annual Meeting of North-Central and current or emerging research issues in the various geoscience
Section, GSA disciplines, and explore emerging research techniques or tech-
Champaign, Illinois, USA nologies. Presentations and posters to honor people whose
18–19 April 2016 research resulted in significant advances are especially welcome.
www.geosociety.org/Sections/nc/2016mtg/
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Illinois Prairie. Photograph by Dan Kirk.
Abstract deadline: 26 January 2016
1967–2016—Celebrating Submit abstracts online at www.geosociety.org/Sections/nc/
50 Years of Geoscience in the
Mid-Continent 2016mtg/. The submission fee is US$10 for students and US$15
for all others. If you cannot submit an abstract online, please
The 50th Annual Meeting of GSA’s North-Central Section will contact Heather Clark, +1-303-357-1018, hclark@geosociety.org.
take place at the I-Hotel and Conference Center on the campus of
the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. This loca- In addition to the following Theme Sessions, we are soliciting
tion offers the amenities of a diverse university community and abstracts for general discipline sessions. Please direct questions on
convenient access to the local flair of arts, entertainment, food, these sessions to the technical program co-chairs: Hue-Hwa
and drink. Cultural opportunities abound in the Urbana- Hwang and Dave Larson, NCGSA16-tech@isgs.illinois.edu.
Champaign area, and abundant locally owned restaurants dish up
a wide diversity of cuisines. Willard Airport provides ready access Symposium
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S1. Janis Treworgy Memorial Symposium. David H. Voorhees,
Waubonsee Community College, dvoorhees@waubonsee.edu.
Theme Sessions
T1. 50 Years of Geoscience in the Mid-Continent—Celebrating
Scientists and Their Legacy of Basic and Applied Research.
David R. Larson, Illinois State Geological Survey, drlarson@
illinois.edu.
T2. Reefs and Shallow Seas: Advances in High-Resolution
Stratigraphy and Paleontology in Silurian-Ordovician
Rocks of North America. Donald G. Mikulic, Illinois State
Geological Survey, mikulic@illinois.edu.
T3. Sedimentology and Stratigraphic Framework of the
Cambro-Ordovician Transition. Yaghoob Lasemi, Illinois
State Geological Survey, ylasemi@illinois.edu.
T4. Black Shale and Associated Strata: Sedimentology,
Stratigraphy, and Paleontology. Joseph T. Hannibal,
Cleveland Museum of Natural History, jhannibal@
cmnh.org.
T5. Mississippi Valley–Type and Other Mineral Deposits of
the Midwestern USA. F. Brett Denny, Illinois State
Geological Survey, fdenny@illinois.edu; Liliana Lefticariu,
Southern Illinois Univ., lefticar@siu.edu; Martin Appold,
Univ. of Missouri, appoldm@missouri.edu.
T6. Next-Generation Sedimentary Systems Geobiology. Bruce
W. Fouke, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, fouke@
illinois.edu.
T7. Peeling the Onion: Building on a Century and a Half of
Geologic Research in the Illinois Basin. Charles Monson,
Illinois State Geological Survey, cmonson@illinois.edu;
Nathan D. Webb, Illinois State Geological Survey,
ndwebb2@illinois.edu.
T8. Shoreline Behavior, Paralic Architecture, and Lake-Level
Change in the Great Lakes. Todd A. Thompson, Indiana
Geological Survey, tthomps@indiana.edu; John W.
Johnston, Univ. of Waterloo, jwjohnston@uwaterloo.edu;
Erin P. Argyilan, Indiana Univ. Northwest, eargyila@iun.edu.
