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GSA 2018 ANNUAL MEETING & EXPOSITION
T104. Environmental Geophysics: Tools and Applications biogeochemical cycling, health impacts, and removal
technologies.
Cosponsors: GSA Hydrogeology Division; GSA Geoinformatics
Division; GSA Geophysics and Geodynamics Division; GSA T108. Polar and Alpine Change
Karst Division
Cosponsors: GSA Soils and Soil Processes Interdisciplinary
Disciplines: Hydrogeology, Geophysics/Geodynamics Interest Group; GSA Sedimentary Geology Division; GSA
Limnogeology Division; GSA International Interdisciplinary
Advocate: David Lampe Interest Group
This topical session will highlight new aerial, surface, and Disciplines: Hydrogeology, Soils, Environmental Geoscience
borehole geophysical methods and applications of traditional tools
to laboratory and field investigations. Advocate: W. Berry Lyons
T105. A Showcase of Undergraduate Research in Polar and alpine areas are undergoing some of the most rapid
Hydrogeology (Posters) change on our planet. This session encourages presentations on
geomorphological, hydrological, biogeochemical, and ecological
Cosponsors: GSA Hydrogeology Division; Council on changes occurring in these environments. Presentations related to
Undergraduate Research Geosciences Division; GSA Karst cryospheric loss and its consequences are encouraged.
Division
T109. Hydrogeology and Energy
Discipline: Hydrogeology
Cosponsor: GSA Hydrogeology Division
Advocates: Samuel J. Smidt; Susan Swanson; Laura K.
Rademacher; Molly Cain Disciplines: Hydrogeology, Energy Geology
This session is designed for undergraduates presenting research Advocates: Erick Burns; Mark A. Engle
and senior theses in the field of hydrogeology. Prizes will be
awarded for top presentations. Employers and graduate advisers This session seeks a broad array of hydrogeology-energy topics
are encouraged to attend. including geothermal, hydrocarbon-water, and other water-energy
issues. Preference is given to work on causative interrelationships
T106. The Axial Role of Water in Being Prepared for or complex interactions that govern occurrence and evolution of
Environmental Change subsurface energy resources.
Cosponsors: GSA Hydrogeology Division; National Ground LIMNOGEOLOGY
Water Association; Geochemical Society; GSA Quaternary
Geology and Geomorphology Division; GSA Geology and Society T110. Lakes through Space and Time
Division; GSA Karst Division; GSA Energy Geology Division
Cosponsors: GSA Limnogeology Division; GSA Sedimentary
Disciplines: Hydrogeology, Geochemistry, Environmental Geology Division; GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology
Geoscience Division; AASP - The Palynological Society; American
Quaternary Association; Association for the Sciences of
Advocates: Chen Zhu; P. David Polly; Yanguo Teng Limnology and Oceanography; International Association of
Limnogeology; SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology); GSA
In the complex web of water-food-energy, water plays an Continental Scientific Drilling Interdisciplinary Interest Group
axial role.
Disciplines: Limnogeology, Paleoclimatology/Paleoceanography,
T107. Arsenic, Manganese, Chromium, and Other Stratigraphy
Geogenic Contaminants, Including Radionuclides in
Hydrological Systems—Source, Biogeochemical Cycling, Advocates: Scott W. Starratt; Michelle F. Goman
Toxicity, and Removal
This session celebrates lacustrine research around the world.
Cosponsors: GSA Hydrogeology Division; GSA Geology and Lakes are important fresh water reservoirs, and their sediments
Health Division; GSA International Interdisciplinary Interest serve as archives of global change, local human impact, and
Group; International Society of Groundwater for Sustainable ecological succession.
Development (ISGSD); International Water Association (IWA);
Specialist Group Metals and Related Substances in Drinking
Water (METRELS)
Disciplines: Hydrogeology, Environmental Geoscience, Geology
and Health
Advocates: Prosun Bhattacharya; Saugata Datta; Madeline
Schreiber; Manish Kumar; Arslan Ahmad; Abhijit Mukherjee;
David Lampe
The cycling of arsenic, manganese, radium, and other geogenic
contaminants in hydrogeological systems from regional to local
scales will be discussed. This encompasses occurrence, mobility,
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