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GSA2016 ANNUAL MEETING & EXPOSITION
GSA TODAY | MAY 2016 T42. Shallow and Deep, Hot and Cold: The Diverse GEOINFORMATICS
Environments of Black Shale Formation
T46. Advanced Information Systems and the Geosciences:
Disciplines: Geochemistry, Paleoclimatology/Paleoceanography, Visioning the Future
Sediments, Clastic
Cosponsors: GSA Hydrogeology Division; GSA Geology and Society
Advocates: Michael Tuite Jr.; Alex Bartholomew Division; GSA Sedimentary Geology Division; SEPM (Society for
Sedimentary Geology)
The diversity of black shales reflects the broad range of tectonic,
climatic, biogeochemical, sedimentological, and geographic Disciplines: Geoinformatics, Geoscience Information/
conditions under which they form as evidenced by paleontology, Communication
geochemistry, sedimentology, and stratigraphy.
Advocates: Mary C. Hill; Suzanne A. Pierce; Basil Tikoff
T43. Sources, Transport, Fate, and Toxicology of Trace Elements
and Organics in the Environment This session explores how advanced computing tools, architec-
tures, algorithms, and visualization are transforming geoscience
Cosponsors: International Association of GeoChemistry; GSA practice and research, making issues that range from hydrology to
Environmental and Engineering Geology Division; GSA Mineralogy, geologic hazards to planetary science more accessible, under-
Geochemistry, Petrology, and Volcanology Division standable, pervasive, and compelling.
Disciplines: Geochemistry, Environmental Geoscience, Geology T47. Big Data in the Geosciences
and Health
Cosponsor: GSA Geoinformatics Division
Advocates: LeeAnn Munk; David T. Long; W. Berry Lyons
Disciplines: Geoinformatics, Geoscience Information/
Basic and applied research on trace elements and organics in Communication
the environment are encouraged. Topics include those that
relate to understanding and modeling sources, transport, and Advocates: M. Lee Allison; Leslie Hsu
fate; human and ecosystem health; and environmental assess-
ment and remediation. Big Data, including small data sets of great variety, complexity,
variability, open access, is changing the scientific paradigm and
T44. The Holistic Approach to Landscape Evolution: breaking down barriers to discovery, access, and integration of
Incorporating Chronometric Data into the Geologic History data, thus reshaping the scientific practice.
of a Region
GEOLOGY AND HEALTH
Cosponsors: GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division;
Boulder Creek Critical Zone Observatory; GSA Sedimentary Geology T48. Current Medical Geology Research on Natural Materials,
Division; SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology) Outreach, and Education Activities
Disciplines: Geochemistry, Geomorphology, Quaternary Geology Cosponsors: GSA Geology and Health Division; GSA
Environmental and Engineering Geology Division; GSA Geology
Advocates: Dylan Ward; Claire E. Lukens; Melissa A. Foster and Society Division; GSA Geoscience Education Division
Geochronometers are powerful tools used to quantify rates of Disciplines: Geology and Health, Environmental Geoscience,
landscape evolution, but careful consideration must be given to Geoscience and Public Policy
geologic context and applicable timescales. We encourage contri-
butions that interpret geochronometer results within broader Advocates: Saugata Datta; Robert B. Finkelman; Nurdan S.
geologic history. Duzgoren-Aydin; Karen Johannesson
T45. Urban Geochemistry Inhaled and ingested geologic materials have been causing a
major human health impact recently. Contributions are welcome
Cosponsors: International Association of GeoChemistry; GSA from social activists, medical practitioners, public health disci-
Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Petrology, and Volcanology Division plines, and medical geologists, among others.
Disciplines: Geochemistry, Environmental Geoscience, Geology GEOMICROBIOLOGY
and Health
T49. Geobiology of Earth-Life Systems
Advocates: Joel Moore; David T. Long; W. Berry Lyons
Cosponsors: GSA Geobiology & Geomicrobiology Division;
This session encourages presentations that qualify and quantify Paleontological Society
the geochemical and biogeochemical impacts (temporal and
spatial) of urbanization and urban activities on soil, water, and air Disciplines: Geomicrobiology, Paleontology, Paleoecology/
resources as well as on human and ecosystem health. Taphonomy, Paleontology, Diversity, Extinction, Origination
Advocates: Marc Laflamme; Simon A.F. Darroch; James
D. Schiffbauer
This session seeks to assemble research of graduate students,
postdoctoral researchers, and early career faculty with focuses on
disentangling the drivers of complex geobiological interactions in
both shallow and deep time.
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