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GSA 2017 ANNUAL MEETING & EXPOSITION

                                                                Short Courses

                                                          Learn and explore a new topic.

SCIENCE & CAREERS      Early registration deadline: 18 September                                             505. Structural and Stratigraphic Concepts
                                                                                                             Applied to Basin Exploration.
                       Registration after 18 September will cost an additional         Fri.–Sat., 20–21 Oct., 8 a.m.–5 p.m. US$25.
                       US$30.                                                          Limit: 30. CEUs: 1.6. Instructors: Bob Stewart, ExxonMobil
                                                                                       Exploration Co.; Tonya Brami, ExxonMobil Exploration Co.
                       Cancellation deadline: 25 September                             Cosponsors: ExxonMobil Exploration Co.; GSA Sedimentary
                                                                                       Geology Division.
                     The following short courses are open to everyone. Early regis-
                   tration is highly recommended to ensure that courses will run.           506. The Magma Chamber Simulator, a Phase Equilibria
                                                                                            Modeling Tool for Magma Recharge, Crustal Assimilation,
                   Can I take a short course if I am not registered for the            and Crystallization (RAFC).
                   meeting? YES! You’re welcome to—just add the meeting non-           Fri.–Sat., 20–21 Oct., 8 a.m.–5 p.m. US$120. Limit: 30. CEUs: 1.6.
                   registrant fee (US$40 by 18 Sept.) to your course enrollment cost.  Instructors: Wendy Bohrson, Central Washington Univ.; Frank
                   Should you then decide to attend the meeting, your payment          Spera, Univ. of California Santa Barbara; Jussi Heinonen, Univ.
                   will be applied toward meeting registration.                        of Helsinki; Guy Brown, Rocking Hoarse Professional Services.
                                                                                       Cosponsor: GSA Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Petrology, and
                   GSA K–12 teacher members: You are welcome to take short             Volcanology Division.
                   courses without registering for the meeting or paying the non-
                   registrant fee.                                                                           507. Field Safety Leadership.
                                                                                                             Fri.–Sat., 20–21 Oct., 8 a.m.–5 p.m. US$25.
                   Continuing Education Units (CEUs): Most professional devel-         Limit: 30. CEUs: 1.6. Instructors: Kevin Bohacs, ExxonMobil
                   opment courses and workshops offer CEUs. One CEU comprises          Upstream Research Company; Greer Barriault, ExxonMobil
                   10 hours of participation in an organized continuing education      Upstream Research Company. Cosponsor: ExxonMobil Upstream
                   experience under responsible sponsorship, capable direction, and    Research Company.
                   qualified instruction.
                                                                                            508. Petrochronology 2017.
                   See community.geosociety.org/gsa2017/courses or contact                  Fri., 20 Oct., 8 a.m.–5 p.m., and Sat., 21 Sept., 8 a.m.–noon.
                   Jennifer Nocerino, jnocerino@geosociety.org, for course abstracts   Professionals: US$135; students: US$25. Limit: 53. CEUs: 1.2.
                   and additional information.                                         Instructors: Matthew Kohn, Boise State Univ.; Martin Engi,
                                                                                       Univ. of Bern; Pierre Lanari, Univ. of Bern. Cosponsors:
                              501. 3D Hydrogeological Modeling from Data to            Cameca; ESI; Geochemical Society; National Science
                              Model to Actual Use.                                     Foundation.
                   Fri., 20 Oct., 9 a.m.–4 p.m. US$128. Limit: 40. CEU: 0.6.
                   Instructors: Tom Martlev Pallesen, I•GIS; Lucia Maria Petersen,                509. Landlab Earth Surface Modeling Toolkit:
                   I•GIS. Cosponsor: I•GIS.                                                       Building and Applying Models of Coupled Earth
                                                                                       Surface Processes.
                              502. High-Resolution Topography and 3D Imaging II:       Sat., 21 Oct., 8 a.m.–5 p.m. US$130. Limit: 40. CEUs: 0.8.
                              Introduction to Terrestrial Laser Scanning.              Instructors: Erkan Istanbulluoglu, Univ. of Washington;
                   Fri., 20 Oct., 8 a.m.–5 p.m. US$52. Limit: 24. CEU: 0.8.            Christina Bandaragoda, Univ. of Washington; Sai Nudurupati,
                   Instructors: Marianne Okal, UNAVCO; Christopher Crosby,             Univ. of Washington; Amanda Manaster Univ. of Washington.
                   UNAVCO. Cosponsor: UNAVCO.                                          Cosponsor: National Science Foundation.

                        503. Modeling Magmatic Processes Using MELTS.                                   510. Collecting Structural Geology Data Using
                        Fri., 20 Oct., 8 a.m.–5 p.m. US$185. Limit: 40. CEU: 0.8.                       the StraboSpot Data System.
                   Instructors: Mark Ghiorso, OFM Research; Paula                      Sat., 21 Oct., 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m. US$30. Limit: 40. CEUs: 0.75.
                   Antoshechkina, California Institute of Technology.                  Instructor: Doug Walker, Univ. of Kansas. Cosponsors:
                                                                                       GSA Geoinformatics Division; GSA Structural Geology and
                                         504. Sequence Stratigraphy for Graduate       Tectonics Division.
                                         Students.
                   Fri.–Sat., 20–21 Oct., 8 a.m.–5 p.m. US$25. Limit: 55. CEUs: 1.6.
                   Instructors: Morgan Sullivan, Chevron; Bret Dixon, Anadarko;
                   Tonya Brami, ExxonMobil. Cosponsors: ExxonMobil; Chevron;
                   Anadarko.

                   INDUSTRY TRACKS—Look for these icons, which identify sessions in the following areas:

                                        Economic Geology  Energy                       Engineering          Hydrogeology and
                                                                                                         Environmental Geology
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