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GSA 2016 ANNUAL MEETING & EXPOSITION
Pardee Keynote Symposia
Joseph Thomas Pardee (1871–1960)
GSA TODAY | AUGUST 2016 Pardee Keynote Symposia are named in honor of GSA Fellow Geoscientists have faced questions from the public for many
and benefactor Joseph Thomas Pardee (1871–1960) via a bequest years about the potential impacts of oil and gas production on the
from Mary Pardee Kelly. Pardee is perhaps best known for his environment. This has been ratcheted up with the advent of shale
work on Glacial Lake Missoula. These symposia consist of invited gas development and high volume hydraulic fracturing. Sparse
presentations covering a broad range of topics. All symposia take data and few studies initially caused a great deal of uncertainty,
place at the Colorado Convention Center (CCC). but an avalanche of investigations in recent years has been
providing solid information. Researchers will present findings on
Sunday, 25 Sept. the future development of oil and gas resources, advances in
extraction, and improvements in understanding the potential
P1. Mastery of the Subsurface: The Challenge to Improve human and environmental health impacts.
Subsurface Energy Systems
Tuesday, 27 Sept.
When/Where: 1:45–5:30 p.m., CCC, Mile High Ballroom 2A/3A
Conveners: Claudia I. Mora, George Guthrie, Susan S. Hubbard, P5. The High Plains Aquifer: Can It be Managed for Today
Marianne Walck and the Future?
Cosponsors: Department of Energy; GSA Environmental
& Engineering Geology Division; GSA Structural Geology and When/Where: 8 a.m.–noon, CCC, Mile High Ballroom 2A/3A
Tectonics Division; GSA Energy Geology Division; GSA Conveners: Susan Stover, Rex C. Buchanan
Hydrogeology Division Cosponsors: GSA Geology and Society Division; GSA Geology and
Public Policy Committee; GSA Hydrogeology Division; National
Subsurface energy sources satisfy more than 80% of total U.S. Ground Water Association; GSA Sedimentary Geology Division;
energy needs. The economic, sustainable, and environmentally Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM); GSA Soils and Soil
sound utilization of our subsurface resources poses crosscutting Processes Interdisciplinary Interest Group
research and technology challenges: Can we understand, monitor,
image, and ultimately predict the behavior of subsurface injected The High Plains aquifer provides water to portions of eight
fluids, the state of stress and seismicity in the subsurface, and the states, supporting irrigation, feedlots, dairies, ethanol plants, and
integrity of a well bore? Can we build the knowledge and tools communities. For decades, geoscientists have measured, modeled,
needed to allow us adaptive control of subsurface fractures and and communicated the declines of this primary source of water to
fluid flow? Speakers will present geological challenges, state of the help society make informed decisions on its use and management.
art, and research goals to meet the subsurface energy challenge. The documentary examines the conflicts, politics, economics,
An open discussion will explore how research activities across and scarcity that irrigators and residents of west Texas are facing.
federal labs, universities, and industry can be integrated to Are we making an impact?
resolving these key challenges in subsurface science.
P3. Exploring the Third Zone: The Geology of Pluto, Charon,
Monday, 26 Sept. and the Kuiper Belt
P2. When Oil and Water Mix: Understanding the When/Where: 1:30–5:30 p.m., CCC, Mile High Ballroom 2A/3A
Environmental Impacts of Shale Development Conveners: William B. McKinnon, S. Alan Stern, Jeffrey M.
Moore
When/Where: 8 a.m.–5:30 p.m., CCC, Mile High Ballroom Cosponsors: GSA Planetary Geology Division; AGU Planetary
2A/3A Sciences Section
Conveners: Daniel J. Soeder, Michael Focasio, Douglas B. Kent
Cosponsors: GSA Hydrogeology Division; GSA Environmental and NASA’s New Horizons mission has revealed surprisingly
Engineering Geology Division; GSA Energy Geology Division; GSA complex geology on the surfaces of Pluto and Charon. This
Geology and Health Division symposium explores the geological diversity and ongoing activity
on present members of the Kuiper belt (the Solar System’s “Third
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