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GSA 2017 Annual Meeting & Exposition

WRAP-UP

I would like to give a very heartfelt thank you to all our attendees, exhibitors, volunteers, and sponsors for making
GSA 2017 in Seattle, Washington, USA, such a success. We hope you enjoyed the meeting and found it worthwhile. If
you did not attend, we are sorry we missed you.

While we take a look back at GSA 2017 by the numbers, I want to remind you that you shape these meetings. Whether
it’s by proposing sessions, special events, field trips, or short courses; or by submitting abstracts, attending, and engaging
with your colleagues and peers—it takes the greater geoscience community to make these meetings what they are.

We hope to see you in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, next November, or at any of our meetings along the way!

—Melissa Cummiskey, GSA Sr. Director of Meetings & Events

GSA 2017 BY THE NUMBERS

• Attendees: 7,105 • Field Trips: 20 trips with 525 participants
• Professionals: 2,800 • Short Courses: 18 courses with 440 participants
• Early career professionals: 700 • Exhibitors: Companies: 211, Booths: 250
• Students: 2,600 • Amount donated by attendees toward the GSA
• K–12 teachers: 100
• On To the Future scholars: 70 Student Travel Fund: US$7200
• Members of the media: 30 • Local area field trip for high school students viewing
• Countries represented: 54
• Sessions: 393 GSA: 150
• Abstracts accepted: 4,950 (2,000 posters, 2,950 talks) • Local geocaching community viewing GSA public

lectures: 100

Thanks to the GSA 2017 Organizing Committee

General Co-Chairs: Alan Gillespie; Darrel Cowan Alan Gillespie Darrel Cowan Ralph Haugerud Harvey Kelsey
Dick Berg Kevin Mickus
Field Trip Co-Chairs: Ralph Haugerud; Harvey Kelsey

Technical Program Chair: Dick Berg

Technical Program Vice Chair: Kevin Mickus

Sponsorship Chair: Brian Butler

K–12 Chair: Michael O’Neal

Student Committee Chair: Linnea McCann

Student Committee Members: Madeleine Hummer,
Michael Zackery McIntire, Virginia Littell, Keith
Hodson

Brian Butler Michael O’Neal

Linnea McCann Madeleine Hummer Michael Zackery Virginia Littell Keith Hodson
McIntire
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