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GSA2015 ANNUAL MEETING & EXPOSITION
T27. Intersections of Sustainability and Geosciences
Disciplines: Environmental Geoscience; Geoscience Education;
Geoscience Information/Communication
Advocates: Robert Brinkmann; Leslie North
Papers are sought for a special session on sustainability and the
geosciences. The session seeks to highlight work that combines the
fields of sustainability and geoscience to examine or educate about spatial) of urbanization and urban activities on soil, water, and air
environmental and/or societal problems.
T28. Ponder the Anthropocene
Disciplines: Environmental Geoscience; History and Philosophy
of Geology; Geoscience Information/Communication
Advocates: Patrick Burkhart; Paul Baldauf
Humans and industrialization have substantially perturbed
Earth Systems. Assessments of impacts, predictions of trends, and
approaches to teaching environmental geology, while maintaining
optimism and an undefeatable human spirit, are sought.
T29. Restoring the Nation’s Largest Estuary: Lessons Learned
from Efforts to Address Changes in Water Quality and
Ecosystem Structure and Function within the Context of
Landscape Change and Climate Variability in the Chesapeake
Bay and Its Watershed
Disciplines: Environmental Geoscience; Public Policy;
Hydrogeology
Advocates: Christopher P. Carlson; Scott W. Phillips; Joel D.
Blomquist; Lewis C. Linker; William C. Dennison
The session will focus on ecosystem response to restoration
policies and practices to improve water quality and habitat in
the tidal bay and throughout the watershed, emphasizing the
influence of land use, geology, ecology, management actions,
and climate variability.
T30. Shale Gas Exploration and Emissions: A Focus on the
Marcellus in Western Pennsylvania
Disciplines: Environmental Geoscience; Engineering Geology;
Economic Geology; Oil/Gas/Alternative Energy
Advocate: Gregory J. Mount
This session focuses on research on fugitive gas emissions and
produced waters from natural gas wells in Devonian shale to
better define the contribution of this activity to the regional and
global carbon cycle and environment.
T31. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Their Use in Geologic
Reconnaissance (Posters)
Disciplines: Environmental Geoscience; Engineering Geology
Advocate: Thomas L. Rice
This session will highlight the burgeoning development of
UAV/UAS (drone) platforms and sensors that can be utilized in
geologic reconnaissance, especially in natural resource and
natural hazards assessments. Active or passive remote sensing,
in miniature!
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T32. Urban Geochemistry
Disciplines: Environmental Geoscience; Geochemistry; Geology
and Health
Advocates: W. Berry Lyons; David T. Long
This session encourages presentations that qualify and quantify
the geochemical and biogeochemical impacts (temporal and
resources, as well as on human and ecosystem health.
T33. Using Long-Term Research in the Baltimore Urban GSA TODAY | www.geosociety.org/gsatoday
Environment in Scientific Decision Making and Education
Disciplines: Environmental Geoscience; Public Policy;
Geoscience Education
Advocates: Suzanne O’Connell; Steward Pickett
Urban environments create heat islands, modify hydrology, and
require large influxes of resources. The Baltimore LTER project
investigates multiple biogeochemical systems. Data collected is
used to understand the complex urban environment and educate
students and policymakers.
Geochemistry
T34. Deep Weathering, Ancient Landscapes, and Regolith-
Dominated Terrains
Disciplines: Geochemistry; Geomorphology; Economic Geology
Advocate: Ignacio Gonzalez-Alvarez
Regolith-dominated terrains extend throughout large areas of
the world. Weathered profiles in these regions reach depths of
hundreds of meters and are complex due to weathering processes
overprinting developed for millions of years.
T35. Honoring the Diverse Career of Dr. W. Berry Lyons:
Geochemistry from Polar Deserts to Tropical Watersheds
Disciplines: Geochemistry; Hydrogeology; Limnogeology
Advocates: Sarah K. Fortner; Carolyn B. Dowling; Karen
Johannesson; Klaus Neumann; Carmen A. Nezat
This session honors W. Berry Lyons and his many contributions
to geochemistry. Dr. Lyons has investigated polar to tropical
settings. His research, collaborative abilities, and leadership
inspire many and have built new directions in geochemistry.
T36. Mercury Biogeochemistry: Sizing up Element 80 in the
Earth System
Disciplines: Geochemistry; Environmental Geoscience;
Geomicrobiology
Advocates: Nathan Yee; John Reinfelder
This session will feature recent advances in mercury (Hg)
biogeochemistry focusing on geochemical and microbial
Hg transformations, Hg stable isotope fractionation processes,
and novel remediation strategies at contaminated sites.
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