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GSA 2017 ANNUAL MEETING & EXPOSITION

Travel & Transportation

Amtrak has three lines that serve Seattle. The Cascades

Line travels between Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
–Seattle–Tacoma–Portland–Salem–Eugene. The Empire Builder
travels between Chicago–Milwaukee–Minneapolis–Portland–
Seattle. The Coast Starlight travels between Seattle–Portland
–Los Angeles, www.amtrak.com/train-schedules-timetables.

SeaTac. Photo by Don Wilson. Photo by Peterhuocean11 at Wikipedia public domain, via Wikimedia
Commons.
Seattle Airport (IATA: SEA; ICAO: KSEA):

Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (or SeaTac), is the largest
airport in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is
located 12 miles south of downtown Seattle. The airport is the
main hub for Alaska Airlines and its regional subsidiary Horizon
Air. It is also a hub for Delta Airlines, serving as a gateway to
Europe and Asia. Multiple transportation options connect SeaTac
to the metro area from rail, Prince Island Sound transit, metro
bus, and taxi, www.seattle-airport.com.

International Attendees: If you are visiting the United States from outside of the

country and do not have United States citizenship, you may require a visa. For more information,
go to https://travel.state.gov/content/visas/en.html. You can obtain and print out the GSA Invitation
Letter to the 2017 Annual Meeting via a link at community.geosociety.org/gsa2017/visaletter.

22–25 October

Seattle, Washington, USA

Transform Your Tomorrow

Join more than 450 diverse students who have been funded to attend
their first GSA Annual Meeting. Travel awards are available to students
from underrepresented groups to attend the GSA 2017 Annual Meeting,
Seattle, Washington, on 22–25 October. Students will have special
opportunities to be paired with a meeting mentor and attend morning
sessions connecting students with key GSA leaders. Visit the On To the
Future website to apply today. Deadline: 26 May.

www.geosociety.org/otf

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