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GSA 2015 ANNUAL MEETING & EXPOSITION

Bridging T wo Continents

A joint meeting between the Geological Society of China
and the Geological Society of America

held in conjunction with the GSA 2015 Annual Meeting

You are invited to participate in the Bridging Two Continents portion of the GSA 2015
meeting in Baltimore. This “meeting within a meeting” will be held on Sunday and
Monday, 1–2 November, at the Baltimore Convention Center. Topical Sessions T1–T8 are
part of the Bridging Two Continents meeting and are open to all GSA attendees.

An additional highlight of this meeting will be the ticketed luncheon on Monday,
featuring a keynote address by James Hansen, “Ice Melt, Sea-Level Rise & Superstorms:
Finding a Realistic Pathway to Clean Energy and Stable Climate.”

Bridging Two Continents Luncheon SCIENCE & CAREERS
with Featured Keynote Speaker James Hansen
James Hansen
Ice Melt, Sea-Level Rise & Superstorms: Finding a Realistic Pathway to
Clean Energy and Stable Climate

Mon., 2 Nov., noon–1:30 p.m.

This luncheon is open to any attendee who purchases a ticket (US$50), and thanks
to a generous contribution, the first 25 students who want to attend can register for
US$25 each.

Speaker James Hansen retired as director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space
Studies in 2013. He now serves as an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s Earth
Institute, where he directs the “Climate Science, Awareness and Solutions” program.
His talk will cover the current understanding of the human-made climate change that
is now under way and the most important implications of that change for humanity
and other species. The talk will also evaluate the changes in the global energy pathway
required to stabilize climate and the economically realistic pathways to achieving
carbon-free energy soon enough to avoid disastrous consequences for young people.
Hansen notes that the present situation constitutes a global crisis that calls for interna-
tional scientific and engineering cooperation, most particularly between China and the
United States.

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