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GSA 2016 ANNUAL MEETING & EXPOSITION
YOUR SCIENCE HERE
Discipline Sessions are created by pooling together abstracts Authors
submitted to a particular discipline category.
Enhance your professional reputation by submitting a refined
Topical Sessions are topically focused for a motivating abstract. Then, deliver an admirable presentation.
exchange of science. Review the list at science-careers/sessions/
topical on the meeting website to see if you’d like to submit an Please adhere to the Code of Ethics (p. 23) regarding content,
abstract to one of these sessions. authorship, and scholarship.
Pardee Keynote Symposia represent leading-edge, interdisci- Presenting authors can deliver two abstracts during the
plinary science and address broad, fundamental geoscience issues meeting, which can consist of one volunteered oral presentation
and/or areas of public policy. Speakers are of high standing in and one volunteered poster presentation, or two poster
their fields. presentations.
Submitting an Abstract The only exemption to this policy is if an author is also invited
to give a presentation in either a Pardee Keynote Session or a
Submission deadline: Tuesday, 12 July Topical Session, because invited abstracts are not counted. Invited
To begin your submission, go to community.geosociety.org/ presenters will receive a PIN to exempt that abstract.
gsa2016/science/sessions. An abstract submission fee of US$50 If the session to which a presenting author is invited is
for professionals and US$25 for students will be charged during cancelled, that abstract will lose its exempted status.
the submission process.
All presenting authors, including invited speakers, must pay
Two-Abstracts Rule their registration fees plus any other expenses they might incur
in association with the GSA meeting.
You may submit two volunteered abstracts, as long as one of the
abstracts is for a poster presentation. Each submitted abstract Co-Authors can be listed on any number of additional
must be different in content; and if you are invited to submit an abstracts, just not as the presenting co-author.
abstract in a Pardee Keynote Symposium or a topical session, the
invited abstracts do not count toward the two-abstract rule. Acceptance notifications will be delivered within three weeks
after the abstract deadline to allow sufficient time to make travel
Abstract Content and Presentation arrangements.
Abstracts must describe recent findings in the realms of Poster Presenters
science, pedagogy, or their applications. All abstracts undergo
peer review. Common reasons for rejection include dubious Once your abstract is approved, you will be assigned a date
conclusions, questionable methodologies, poorly written prose, for your presentation. Please hang your posters in accordance with
and incomplete or outdated information. The Joint Technical the following schedule:
Program Committee (JTPC) will do its best to honor the authors’
designations of topical session, discipline, or presentation mode Sunday: On display 9 a.m.–5:30 p.m.; authors present 3:30–
(oral or poster), but final assignments remain at the discretion of 5:30 p.m.
the Technical Program Chair. Session scheduling and presenta-
tion modes are firm once assigned. Please familiarize yourself Monday–Wednesday: On display 9 a.m.–6:30 p.m.; authors
with and adhere to the GSA Code of Ethics for abstract publica- present 4:30–6:30 p.m.
tion and meeting presentation (p. 23).
We’ll provide one horizontal, freestanding 8-ft-wide × 4-ft-
high display board and Velcro for hanging your poster; a shared
(with one other poster) 6-ft-long × 30-inch-wide table; and Wi-Fi.
Complementary electricity will not be available this year, so
please plan your presentation accordingly.
Want to present your poster digitally? As a poster presenter,
you will be given the opportunity to present your poster in a
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Submit a press release request at http://google/forms/oTc51UbRXB.
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