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GSA TODAY | SEPTEMBER 2015Preliminary Announcement and Call for Papers CALL FOR PAPERS
NORTHEASTERN SECTION Abstract deadline: 8 Dec. 2015
Submit online at www.geosociety.org/sections/ne/2016mtg/
51st Annual Meeting of the Northeastern
Section, GSA Abstract submission fee: US$15 for students and US$20 for all
Albany, New York, USA others. If you cannot submit an abstract online, please contact
21–23 March 2016 Heather Clark, +1-303-357-1018, hclark@geosociety.org. Please
www.geosociety.org/Sections/ne/2016mtg/ check www.geosociety.org/sections/ne/2016mtg/ for descrip-
tions and the most current listing of technical sessions.
Thatcher Park. Photo courtesy of Albany County Convention & Visitors Bureau.
Symposia
In the midst of it all… slices
through space and time. S1. Applications of Geochemistry and Geochronology to
Understanding Tectonic Processes: In Honor of Raymond
Albany, New York, USA, is centrally located on the historic A. Coish. David P. West, Jr., Middlebury College, dwest@
Hudson River, where the Appalachian Mountains meet the middlebury.edu; Peter Ryan, Middlebury College, pryan@
Allegheny Plateau and the Valley and Ridge province nudges up to middlebury.edu; Jonathan Kim, Vermont Geological Survey,
the Taconic and Adirondack Mountains. From Paleozoic shelf jon.kim@state.vt.us.
strata and complexly metamorphosed Precambrian bedrock to
Mesozoic rift basins and Pleistocene glacial cover, the fascinating S2. Timing and Nature of Deformation in the Adirondack
transect from Buffalo to Boston leads right through Albany. Mountains. Mike Williams, Univ. of Massachusetts, mlw
@geo.umass.edu; Jeff Chiarenzelli, St. Lawrence Univ.; Tim
We’ll meet in the Albany Convention Center, located in the Grover, Castleton State College.
heart of revitalized downtown Albany, and adjacent to the beau-
tiful New York State House and the New York State Museum. Theme Sessions
Numerous affordable lodging opportunities and a wide variety of
restaurants, coffee shops, bars, and brew pubs are within easy T1. Insights from Microfossils, from Terrestrial to Marine
walking distance of the convention center. Environments (Posters). Miriam Katz, Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute, katzm@rpi.edu; Chiara Borrelli, Univ.
of Rochester, cborrelli@ur.rochester.edu; Samuel Bowser,
Wadsworth Center, New York State Dept. of Health, samuel
.bowser@health.ny.gov.
T2. High-Resolution Records of Holocene Climate Change.
Eugene Domack, College of Marine Science, Univ. of South
Florida, edomack@usf.edu; Amy Leventer, Geology
Department, Colgate Univ., aleventer@colgate.edu.
T3. Tropical Climate and Paleoclimate. Alice Doughty,
Dartmouth College, alice.m.doughty@dartmouth.edu;
Meredith A. Kelly, Dartmouth College; Margaret Jackson,
Dartmouth College.
T4. Glacial Landscapes as Recorders of Geomorphic Process
and Climate Change. Lee Corbett, Univ. of Vermont, ashley
.corbett@uvm.edu; Jeremy Shakun, Boston College; Aaron
Putnam, Univ. of Maine, aaron_putnam@umit.maine.edu.
T5. Marine and Terrestrial Coastal Mapping: Data, Discovery,
and Science. Mark Borrell, Univ. of Massachusetts
Boston, mark.borrelli@umb.edu; Bryan Oakley, Univ. of
Massachusetts Boston.
T6. Integrating Structural Geology with Hydrogeology.
Edwin Romanowicz, State Univ. of New York at Plattsburgh,
romanoea@plattsburgh.edu; Jonathan Kim, Vermont
Geological Survey.
T7. Interaction between the Landscape and Aquatic
Biogeochemistry. Andrew Vermilyea, Castleton State
College, andrew.vermilyea@castleton.edu; Andrew Schroth,
Univ. of Vermont.
T8. Integrating Complementary Records of Paleozoic
Orogenies in the Appalachians: Bridging the Foreland and
Hinterland. Paul Karabinos, Williams College, pkarabin
@williams.edu; Francis Macdonald, Harvard Univ.,
fas.harvard.edu; Charles E. Mitchell, SUNY Buffalo,
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