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GSA 2015 ANNUAL MEETING & EXPOSITION BALITMORE

President’s Welcome

Jonathan G. Price Please join your colleagues at the GSA 2015 Annual Meeting in Baltimore, on
1–4 November. It promises to be a superb experience for geoscientists. Our
return to the East Coast will feature outstanding field trips to classic sites in the
Appalachians, piedmont, and Atlantic coastal plain; short courses designed to
enhance professional development in research, applied geology, and teaching;
technical sessions covering forefronts in our science; an exhibit hall with a
mixture of scientific posters, publishers, equipment and service vendors,
geoscience organizations, and graduate schools; and special presentations.

Among the highlights will be a two-day Pardee symposium honoring the
200th anniversary of the publication of the first modern geologic map of a
large region—England, Wales, and portions of Scotland—by William Smith
(see p. 39). His map had direct implications for our science as well as for the
development of water and mineral resources, and GSA sessions will highlight
how our science has expanded on the foundation that Smith built. We will also
be celebrating the first GSA Geologic Mapping Award in Honor of Florence
Bascom, a pioneer in North American geology. Other highlights include a
special session on the 25 April 2015 Nepal earthquake and new “Feed Your
Brain” lectures scheduled during lunch breaks Mon.–Wed.

Our Baltimore event will also host the second joint meeting of GSA and the
Geological Society of China. Called a “meeting within a meeting,” it will take
place on Sun.–Mon., 1–2 Nov., and features a three-day pre-meeting field trip
studying the North American Cordillera.

All this, coupled with the extraordinary setting of the Baltimore–
Chesapeake Bay area, make this an event not to miss.

GSA President Jonathan G. Price, Jonathan G. Price LLC

Organizing Committee

GENERAL CHAIR SPONSORSHIP CHAIR
David A. Vanko, Towson University, dvanko@towson.edu David A. Vanko, Towson University, dvanko@towson.edu

TECHNICAL PROGRAM CHAIR K–12 EDUCATION CHAIR
Patrick Burkhart, Slippery Rock University, patrick.burkhart@sru.edu Michael Passow, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia
University, michael@earth2class.org
FIELD TRIP CHAIR
Richard A. Ortt, Jr., Maryland Geological Survey, SPECIAL EVENTS CHAIR
richard.ortt@maryland.gov Michael S. Kelley, NASA Headquarters, Michael.S.Kelley@nasa.gov

FIELD TRIP CO-CHAIRS STUDENT COMMITTEE
David K. Brezinsky, Maryland Geological Survey, Hannah Susorney, Johns Hopkins University, hsusorn1@jhu.edu
DBrezinski@dnr.state.md.us
Sophie Lehmann, Johns Hopkins University, slehman4@jhu.edu
Jeffrey P. Halka, Maryland Geological Survey, jeff.halka@maryland.gov

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