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GSA 2017 ANNUAL MEETING & EXPOSITION
Pardee Keynote Symposia
Joseph Thomas Pardee (1871–1960)
Pardee Keynote Symposia are named in honor of GSA Fellow points. In most cases, our ability to predict this transition is being
and benefactor Joseph Thomas Pardee (1871–1960) via a bequest outpaced by the rates of landscape change, and we are conse-
from Mary Pardee Kelly. Pardee is perhaps best known for his quently not meeting the needs of communities whose land is
work on Glacial Lake Missoula. These symposia consist of invited threatened by environmental upheaval. This symposium will
presentations covering a broad range of topics. bring together a trans-disciplinary group of innovative thinkers
who are grappling with landscape change. Either by developing
P1. Challenges to the Geosciences in the 21st Century: predictive models or by translating science into policy, our speak-
Fostering Diversity and Inclusion to Solve Increasingly ers are all working at the cutting-edge of increasingly pervasive
Complex Problems environmental challenges typical of the Anthropocene.
Cosponsors: GSA Geology and Society Division; GSA Committee P3. IODP-ICDP Expedition 364 to the Chicxulub
on Diversity in the Geosciences; Earth Science Women’s Network; Impact Crater
International Association for Geoscience Diversity; Geoscience
Alliance; Association for Women Geoscientists Cosponsors: GSA Planetary Geology Division; GSA Geophysics
Division; International Continental Scientific Drilling Program
Disciplines: Geoscience and Public Policy, Environmental (ICDP); European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling
Geoscience (IODP-ECORD); Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI)
Advocate: Barbara P. Nash Disciplines: Planetary Geology, Geochemistry, Paleontology,
Diversity, Extinction, Origination
The changing face of the geosciences is a response to global
challenges, climate, resources, the environment, energy and sus- Advocates: David A. Kring; Philippe Claeys
tainability. The lack of diversity in the geosciences limits perspec-
tives, experiences, and innovative approaches to solving critical Sixty-five million years ago, the evolution of Earth was dra-
problems that the geosciences are well poised to address. The matically altered by the Chicxulub impact event. This icon of the
symposium will (1) examine how the changing face of the geosci- impact-mass extinction hypothesis was targeted by IODP-ICDP
ences necessitates that we develop a diverse workforce; (2) share Expedition 364 to test models of peak-ring formation, impact-
experiences of geoscientists from diverse backgrounds who have generated hydrothermal systems, habitability within those sys-
contributed fresh perspectives and experiences to help produce tems, and the recovery of life in the vicinity of the crater. This
scientifically effective and socially responsible solutions; and Pardee Keynote Symposium will reveal first-year studies of a
(3) examine strategies to create a geoscience workforce that lever- borehole that pierced the PETM, the Paleogene sediments that
ages diversity. cover the crater, impact-melt bearing units on the floor of the
crater, and the granitic core of a peak-ring that was uplifted
P2. Landscapes in the Anthropocene ~10 km in a geologic instant.
Cosponsors: GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology P4. Speed Dating!: Advice on Sampling and Applications
Division; GSA Geology and Society Division; GSA Hydrogeology through the Lens of the Geochronologist (Posters)
Division; GSA Geology and Public Policy Committee; Geology
(journal) Cosponsors: GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology
Division; GSA Archaeological Geology Division; GSA Karst
Disciplines: Geomorphology, Environmental Geoscience, Division; GSA Limnogeology Division; GSA Mineralogy,
Geoscience and Public Policy Geochemistry, Petrology, and Volcanology Division; GSA
Sedimentary Geology Division; GSA Structural Geology and
Advocates: José Antonio Constantine; J. Wesley Lauer; Tectonics Division
Rónadh Cox
Disciplines: Quaternary Geology, Stratigraphy, Tectonics/
Intensifying pressures driven by changes in climate and land Tectonophysics
use may be pushing many of Earth’s landscapes toward tipping
16 22–25 October 2017 • Seattle, Washington, USA
