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Second Announcement REGISTRATION

SOUTH-CENTRAL SECTION Early registration deadline: 16 Feb.
Cancellation deadline: 22 Feb.
50th Annual Meeting of the South-Central
Section, GSA For further information or if you need special accommoda-
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA tions, please contact Peter Clift, pclift@lsu.edu. Professionals
21–22 March 2016 registering for the meeting are encouraged to add US$15 to their
www.geosociety.org/Sections/sc/2016mtg/ registration fee to help a student attend the 50th Anniversary
Celebration.

REGISTRATION FEES (in U.S. dollars)

Early Registration Onsite

Full One Day Full One day

Professional Member $165 $110 $220 $165

Professional Member 70+ $110 $60 $165 $110

Professional Non-Member $180 $130 $240 $180

Student Member $60 $50 $110 $75

Student Non-Member $80 $70 $130 $90

K–12 $65 n/a $110 n/a

Guest/Spouse $40 n/a $50 n/a

Field Trip or Short Course only $40 n/a $50 n/a

GSA TODAY | DECEMBER 2015Photo courtesy of Visit Baton Rouge. ACCOMMODATIONS

Celebrating the Section’s Reservation deadline: 29 Feb.
Golden Anniversary GSA has reserved blocks of specially priced rooms and town-

GSA’s South-Central Section will celebrate its Golden homes at the Hilton Baton Rouge Capitol Center, 201 Lafayette
Anniversary by meeting at the Hilton Baton Rouge Capitol Street, Baton Rouge, LA 70801, USA. Reservations can be made
Center, located in the state capital of Louisiana, Baton Rouge. by calling +1-225-344-5866 or +1-800-955-6962. In order to
Founded in 1719, Baton Rouge is located on the banks of the receive the special rate, please mention that you are attending the
Mississippi River, just upstream from the world-famous delta that GSA South-Central Meeting. Individual and double rooms are
is building out into the Gulf of Mexico. The region is a classic area US$109 per room/night, plus a 13% Louisiana tax. Bookings can
for the study of fluvial sedimentology, coastal geology, and hydro- also be made online at https://aws.passkey.com/event/13930413/
carbon systems and salt tectonics. Geology underlies much of the owner/32164/home (use code “GSA”). For those who would like
economy of the region, which is also challenged by issues such as to come early or stay after the meeting, these special rates are
coastal land loss, including fragile wetlands, as a result of rising available 19–22 March 2016.
sea levels and subsidence. The region is also strongly affected by
hurricane systems from the Gulf of Mexico. Interest in this 50th CALL FOR PAPERS
anniversary meeting is rapidly developing! Early registration and
accommodation reservations are strongly recommended. Abstract deadline: 15 Dec. 2015
Submit abstracts online at www.geosociety.org/sections/
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sc/2016mtg/techprog.htm. Fee: US$15 for students and US$20
for all others. If you cannot submit an abstract online, please
contact Heather Clark, +1-303-357-1018, hclark@geosociety.org.

TECHNICAL PROGRAM

Symposium

S1. The Bones May Be Dry but the Ideas Don’t Have to Be:
Fossil Vertebrates from the Gulf Coastal Plain. Judith
Schiebout, Louisiana State Univ., jschie@lsu.edu; Gary
Stringer, Univ. of Louisiana at Monroe, stringer@ulm.edu.

Theme Sessions

T1. Climate Change in the Gulf Coast Region: Past, Present,
and Future. Brian Schubert, Univ. of Louisiana at Lafayette,
schubert@louisiana.edu; Grant Harley, Univ. of Southern
Mississippi, grant.harley@usm.edu.