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GSA TODAY | SEPTEMBER 2016Preliminary Announcement and Call for Papers Theme Sessions
Joint Meeting Direct your theme session proposals to technical chairs
Richard Becker (NC, richard.becker@utoledo.edu) or Wendell
NORTHEASTERN and Barner (NE, wendell.barner@gmail.com).
NORTH-CENTRAL SECTIONS 1. New Strategies and Best Practices for Teaching Climate and
52nd Northeastern Section Annual Meeting Energy. Karen Cercone, Indiana Univ. of Pennsylvania,
51st North-Central Section Annual Meeting kcercone@iup.edu.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA 2. Teaching Climate and Energy to a K–12 Audience.
19–21 March 2017 Laura Guertin, Pennsylvania State Univ., uxg3@psu.edu;
www.geosociety.org/Sections/ne/2017mtg/ Polly Rott Sturgeon.
3. Back to the Basics: Focusing on Fieldwork in Today’s
??????????????????????????????? Geological Studies. Wes Buchanan, Colorado School of
Mines, jbuchana@mines.edu; Sean Regan.
Shale Gas Production: Views from 4. Karst Studies from the Appalachians to the Mid-Continent.
the Energy Roller Coaster Douglas Gouzie, douglasgouzie@missouristate.edu.
5. Engineering and Environmental Geology of Karst
LOCATION Terranes. Wendell Barner, Barner Consulting, LLC,
Pittsburgh is a thriving city with a vibrant community, great wendell.barner@gmail.com; Bill Kochanov.
6. FOSSIL Collaborations: Enhancing Paleontology through
restaurants, and many museums. The Omni William Penn is a Professional and Amateur Partnerships. Eleanor Gardner,
grand hotel centrally located near dozens of bistros, eateries, and egardner@flmnh.ufl.edu; Bruce MacFadden; Cathy Young;
shops. The meeting area offers a variety of geologically interesting Jayson Kowlinsky; Daniel Krisher.
venues—excellent examples of the Allegheny Front separating the 7. Fluvial Geomorphology of Post-Glacial Rivers.
Valley and Ridge and Appalachian Plateau Provinces, including Amanda Schmidt, Oberlin College, aschmidt@oberlin.edu;
terminal Laurentide moraines, as well as oil, gas, coal, aggregates, Anne Jefferson; Karen Gran.
and a wealth of additional natural resources, overprinted with 8. The Geomorphology and Hydrogeology of the Appalachian
myriad geotechnical hazards. Plateau. Daniel Bain, Univ. of Pittsburgh, dbain@pitt.edu;
CALL FOR PAPERS Katie Farnsworth.
Abstract deadline: 3 Jan. 2017 9. Remote Sensing Applications in Geology. Richard Becker,
Submit online at www.geosociety.org/sections/ne/2017mtg/. Univ. of Toledo, richard.becker@utoledo.edu.
Abstract submission fee: US$18 for students and US$30 for all 10. A View of Some Significant Geologists or Discoveries in the
others. If you cannot submit an abstract online, please contact Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. Jeri Jones,
Heather Clark, +1-303-357-1018, hclark@geosociety.org. Jones Geological Services, jonesgeo@comcast.net; Jon Inners.
44 11. Improving Undergraduate STEM Education and
Advancing Diversity in the Geosciences—How Are
We Doing? Jonathan Lewis, Indiana Univ. of Pennsylvania,
jclewis@iup.edu; Sharon Cooper; Karen Thomson.
12. Undergraduate Research Session (Posters). Cosponsored
by Council on Undergraduate Research Geosciences Division.
Robert Shuster, Univ. of Nebraska–Omaha, rshuster@
unomaha.edu.
13. Changing Agricultural Landscapes and Impacts on
Groundwater Quality and Quantity. Jana Levison, Univ.
of Guelph, jlevison@g360group.org; Marie Larocque.
14. There’s an App for That: Using Technology Developments,
Innovations, Resources, and Applications to Enhance
Undergraduate Geoscience Education. Cosponsored by
National Association of Geoscience Teachers. C. Renee
Sparks, Calvin College, crs38@calvin.edu; Joseph Reese;
Steven Linberg.
15. Conodonts Solving Stratigraphic Problems. Christopher
Waid, Univ. of Iowa, christopher-waid@uiowa.edu; D.
Jeffrey Over; John Repetski.
16. Research Associated with The Marcellus Shale Energy and
Environment Laboratory (MSEEL). Tim Carr, West
Virginia Univ., tim.carr@mail.wvu.edu; Dan Billman.
17. Fundamental Measurements of Shale Properties and
Identifying Data Gaps. Angela Goodman, Angela.Goodman@
netl.doe.gov.
