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GSA 2018 ANNUAL MEETING & EXPOSITION
T8. Pseudo-Karst Processes and Features T12. Communicating Geologic Hazard and Risk: Sharing
Successes, Failures, and Lessons Learned
Cosponsor: GSA Karst Division
Cosponsors: GSA Environmental & Engineering Geology
Discipline: Karst Division; GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology
Division; GSA Geology and Society Division; GSA Geophysics
Advocates: Andrew J. Luhmann; Jonathan B. Sumrall; Jason Polk and Geodynamics Division; GSA Karst Division
This session seeks abstracts on topics focused on the origin, Disciplines: Engineering Geology, Geoscience Information/
development, depositional processes, biogeology, and manage- Communication, Geomorphology
ment of landscapes and features that morphologically or in other
ways resemble karst. Advocates: Stephen Slaughter; Matthew M. Crawford;
William J. Burns
ENGINEERING GEOLOGY
This session focuses on communication of geologic hazards
T9. Cultural Geology and Heritage Stone: Use, and risk, evacuation, dissemination of technical information, and
Petrology, Quarrying, Engineering Properties, and Other other topics—sharing successes, failures, and lessons learned.
Aspects of Stone Used for Buildings, Monuments, Sculpture,
or Otherwise Relating to the Interface of Stone with Human ENVIRONMENTAL GEOSCIENCE
Culture Past and Present
T13. Global Warning: Accelerating Rates of Change
Cosponsors: GSA Environmental & Engineering Geology Forewarn of Catastrophic Impacts
Division; GSA Archaeological Geology Division; Heritage Stone
Subcommission of the International Union of Geological Sciences; Cosponsors: GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology
GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division; GSA Division; GSA Energy Geology Division; GSA Environmental &
Geology and Society Division Engineering Geology Division; GSA Geology and Health
Division; GSA Geology and Society Division; GSA Geoscience
Disciplines: Engineering Geology, Archaeological Geology, Education Division; GSA Hydrogeology Division
Economic Geology
Disciplines: Environmental Geoscience, Geoscience and Public
Advocates: Joseph T. Hannibal; Carol A. Grissom Policy, Energy Geology
This session will include talks related to building stone and Advocates: George T. Stone
other cultural uses of stone ranging from prehistory to the present.
Fossil carbon is being transferred from natural subsurface
T10. Environmental & Engineering Geology Division sequestration to increasing accumulations in Earth’s atmosphere
and hydrosphere. The impacts of this unnaturally rapid chemical
Cosponsor: GSA Environmental & Engineering Geology redistribution are increasingly problematic, stressing most of our
Division planet’s ecosystems.
Disciplines: Engineering Geology, Environmental Geoscience T14. Mining Wastes in the Tri-State Mining District
of Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma: Advances in Character
Advocates: Jessica E. Witt; Stephen Slaughter; Anne C. Witt ization and Remediation
The oral session for the Environmental & Engineering Geology Cosponsors: GSA Environmental & Engineering Geology
Division gives an opportunity to the geoscience community to Division; GSA Karst Division; GSA Hydrogeology Division;
present their research, data, and work pertaining to environmental GSA Limnogeology Division
and engineering geology.
Disciplines: Environmental Geoscience, Geochemistry,
T11. Environmental & Engineering Geology Division Hydrogeology
Student Posters
Advocate: Melida Gutierrez
Cosponsors: GSA Environmental & Engineering Geology
Division; Association of Environmental & Engineering Geologists We are looking for papers about contamination characterization
(e.g., volume of contaminated soils, toxicity), soil chemistry,
Disciplines: Engineering Geology, Environmental Geoscience, remediation options, measuring effectiveness of remediation, con-
Soils taminant (metal) transport in fractured media, etc., which applies
to the Tri-State Mining District.
Advocates: Jessica E. Witt; Stephen Slaughter; Anne C. Witt
T15. Urban Geochemistry
We encourage students to submit for the poster presentation on
topics related to applied research in environmental and engineer- Cosponsors: International Association of GeoChemistry;
ing geology. Monetary awards will be given to the top presenters GSA Environmental & Engineering Geology Division; GSA
at the Division dinner and awards ceremony. Limnogeology Division; GSA International Interdisciplinary
Interest Group
18 4–7 November • Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
