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GSA 2018 ANNUAL MEETING & EXPOSITION
T45. Is There a Medical Geologist in the House? A Session T49. Cascading Geohazards: Frequency, Impacts, and
Honoring the Contributions of Robert Finkelman to the Topographic Signatures
Field of Medical Geology
Cosponsors: GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology
Cosponsor: GSA Geology and Health Division Division; GSA Geophysics and Geodynamics Division; GSA
Environmental & Engineering Geology Division
Disciplines: Geology and Health, Environmental Geoscience,
Geoscience and Public Policy Disciplines: Geomorphology, Engineering Geology, Quaternary
Geology
Advocates: Malcolm Siegel; G. Nelson Eby; Saugata Datta;
Jean M. Morrison Advocates: Brian J. Yanites; Alison R. Duvall
This session will honor Dr. Robert Finkelman, a leader in the We seek contributions from a broad spectrum of studies
field of medical geology for more than 20 years, through his work focused on understanding the frequency of cascading hazards and
in government and academic institutions, in the United States and the signature they leave in the landscape.
internationally.
T50. Processes and Feedbacks in the Critical Zone
T46. From Local to Global—Why Geology Matters for
Human Health Cosponsors: GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology
Division; GSA Soils and Soil Processes Interdisciplinary Interest
Cosponsors: GSA Geology and Health Division Group; GSA Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Petrology, and
Volcanology Division
Disciplines: Geology and Health, Environmental Geoscience,
Hydrogeology Disciplines: Geomorphology, Soils, Quaternary Geology
Advocates: Bethany Overfield; William C. Haneberg Advocates: Alison Anders; Martha C. Eppes
This session emphasizes research at the intersection of health Processes and feedbacks occurring from the top of the canopy
science and earth science. Encompassing everything from the ori- to the bottom of the bedrock weathering zone. Field, instrumenta-
gin, transport, and accumulation of geogenic carcinogens to prop- tion, simulation, and/or modeling data for geosphere, pedosphere,
erties of hot spring spas—geology and health are interconnected. hydrosphere, atmosphere, and/or biosphere processes are
welcome.
T47. Global Drinking Water and Public Health:
Conditions, Contaminants, Concerns, and Strategies T51. Planetary Aeolian Geology from Outcrop to Orbit:
Nathan Bridges Memorial Session
Cosponsors: GSA Hydrogeology Division; GSA Karst Division;
GSA Limnogeology Division; GSA International Interdisciplinary Cosponsors: GSA Planetary Geology Division; GSA Quaternary
Interest Group Geology and Geomorphology Division; GSA Sedimentary
Geology Division
Disciplines: Geology and Health, Environmental Geoscience,
Hydrogeology Disciplines: Geomorphology, Sediments, Clastic, Planetary
Geology
Advocates: Jonathan W. Peterson; Aaron A. Best
Advocates: Kirby D. Runyon; Bradley J. Thomson
This session will focus on the conditions and contaminants in
drinking water sources from many global locations. A theme will Honoring the life and legacy of Dr. Nathan Bridges, this session
be identifying commonalities and strategies, including relatively traces the theme of wind-blown sediment and its effects across the
short-term actions, to protect or improve human health. solar system from a processes perspective.
GEOMORPHOLOGY T52. Techniques and Applications of Digital Elevation
Models and Derivative Products to Understand Fluvial
T48. Fluvial Processes from Catchments to Coastlines Systems
Cosponsors: GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Cosponsors: Kentucky Geological Survey; GSA Environmental &
Division; GSA Sedimentary Geology Division Engineering Geology Division; GSA Quaternary Geology and
Geomorphology Division; American Quaternary Association;
Disciplines: Geomorphology, Sediments, Clastic, Quaternary GSA Geoinformatics Division
Geology
Disciplines: Geomorphology, Engineering Geology, Quaternary
Advocates: Douglas A. Edmonds; Brian J. Yanites Geology
Rivers connect mountainous catchments to coastlines by erod- Advocates: Matthew A. Massey; Jason M. Dortch
ing, moving, and depositing sediment. We encourage abstracts
that investigate sediment transport dynamics and river morphody- Digital elevation models and their derivative products are
namics within and across these scales. essential to understanding surface dynamics. This session will
explore DEM-based techniques and applications to assess the
processes and evolution of fluvial systems.
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