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GSA 2018 ANNUAL MEETING & EXPOSITION
T53. High-Resolution Datasets for Fluvial and Hillslope This session focuses on the role of glacial systems within land-
Processes and Landforms: Frontiers of Remotely Sensed Data scape development and discusses the framework glacial
landforms provide for understanding glacial dynamics and
Cosponsors: GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology reconstructing patterns of long-term environmental change.
Division; GSA Geoinformatics Division; GSA Sedimentary
Geology Division; GSA Environmental & Engineering Geology T57. Undergraduate Research Talks: The Next Step in Student
Division Research Projects
Disciplines: Geomorphology, Environmental Geoscience, Cosponsors: GSA Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Petrology, and
Stratigraphy Volcanology Division; GSA Quaternary Geology and
Geomorphology Division; GSA Geoinformatics Division;
Advocates: Quinn W. Lewis; Christopher E. Sheehan; Jeffrey M. GSA Limnogeology Division; GSA Structural Geology and
Valenza Tectonics Division; GSA Geology and Health Division;
GSA Hydrogeology Division; GSA Sedimentary Geology
This session focuses on the use of high spatial and/or temporal Division; GSA Karst Division; GSA Geobiology &
resolution datasets, or innovative use of remotely sensed data, for Geomicrobiology Division; GSA Environmental & Engineering
improving understanding of fluvial and hillslope processes and Geology Division; GSA Energy Geology Division; GSA
landforms. Geophysics and Geodynamics Division; GSA Planetary Geology
Division; GSA Archaeological Geology Division; GSA
T54. Quantifying Geomorphic Processes and Rates of Geoscience Education Division; GSA History & Philosophy of
Landscape Evolution Geology Division
Cosponsor: GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Disciplines: Geomorphology, Volcanology, Geochemistry
Division
Advocates: Jacqueline A. Smith; Bradley G. Johnson
Disciplines: Geomorphology, Quaternary Geology, Tectonics/
Tectonophysics This oral session provides a venue for undergraduate students
and recent graduates to present talks on completed research proj-
Advocates: Lydia M. Staisch; Arjun M. Heimsath; Paul R. ects. Students may submit abstracts for research in any subdisci-
Bierman pline of geology, earth science, or environmental science.
This session focuses on quantifying the relationships between T58. Advances in Understanding Pleistocene Landscape
tectonics, climate, and erosional processes. Presentations on new Evolution through the Window of Bedrock Topography
approaches and applications of methods such as cosmogenic (Posters)
nuclides, thermochronology, chemical mass balance, detrital geo-
chemistry, and luminescence are encouraged. Cosponsor: GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology
Division
T55. Tipping the Scales: Scaling Relationships in
Modern and Ancient Sediment-Routing Systems Disciplines: Geomorphology, Quaternary Geology, Hydrogeology
Cosponsors: SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology); GSA Advocates: Eric C. Carson; Shawn Naylor
Sedimentary Geology Division; GSA Quaternary Geology and
Geomorphology Division; GSA Planetary Geology Division; This session highlights recent work toward understanding the
American Association of Petroleum Geologists; GSA Structural causal mechanisms and geomorphological effects of Pleistocene
Geology and Tectonics Division bedrock erosion and drainage reorganizations by looking at glaci-
ated regions around the world, with a focus on the North
Disciplines: Geomorphology, Sediments, Clastic, Quaternary American mid-continent.
Geology
T59. Human Alterations to Landscape Connectivity
Advocates: Fabien J. Laugier; Zane Jobe; Sam Johnstone
Cosponsors: GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology
We solicit contributions that investigate scaling relationships in Division; GSA Soils and Soil Processes Interdisciplinary Interest
sediment routing systems on Earth or other planetary surfaces. Group; GSA Archaeological Geology Division; GSA International
We seek broad representation in environments (eolian to deep- Interdisciplinary Interest Group
marine) and methods (field, remote-sensing, geochronology, mod-
eling), and integration within a source-to-sink framework. Disciplines: Geomorphology, Soils, Environmental Geoscience
T56. From Alpine Glaciers to Ice Sheets: Understanding Advocates: Anne J. Jefferson; Stephanie S. Day; Robert B.
Glacial Dynamics, Landscapes, and Environmental Change Jacobson
Cosponsors: GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Human activities affect geomorphic processes and landscape
Division; Paleoclimatology/Paleoceanography connectivity across scales, influencing fluxes of water, sediment,
energy, and propagules. This session seeks innovative case studies
Disciplines: Geomorphology, Quaternary Geology and syntheses of human-altered geomorphic processes, landscape
connections, and socio-ecological consequences.
Advocates: Elizabeth Orr; Jason M. Cesta; Michelle Fame;
Sarah Crump
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