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GSA 2019 ANNUAL MEETING & EXPOSITION

Submitting an Abstract

Abstract submission deadline: Tuesday, 25 June, 11:59 p.m. PDT ORAL PRESENTERS
Submission fee: US$50 for professionals; US$25 for students • The normal length of an oral presentation is 12 minutes plus
Begin at community.geosociety.org/gsa2019/abstracts three minutes for questions and answers.
For detailed guidelines on preparing your submission, please • You must visit the Speaker Ready Room at least 24 hours before
view “preparing an online submission” at https://gsa.confex your scheduled presentation.
.com/gsa/2019AM/categorypreparation.cgi. • All technical session rooms will be equipped with a PC running
Windows 7/MS Office 2016.
TWO-ABSTRACT RULE • Presentations should be prepared using a 16:9 screen ratio.
• You may submit two volunteered abstracts, as long as one of
the abstracts is for a poster presentation.
• Each submitted abstract must be different in content. ABSTRACTS SUBMISSION CODE OF ETHICS
• If you are invited to submit an abstract in a Pardee Keynote Working together as a community of geoscientists, we will
Symposium or a topical session, the invited abstracts do not continue to advance the finest science in a respectable, profes-
count against the two-abstract rule. sional manner. Authors will display integrity in disseminating
their research. Presentations will adhere to the content and con-
POSTER PRESENTERS clusions of abstracts, as submitted and reviewed. Listed co-
• You will be provided with one horizontal, free-standing 8-ft- authors will have made a bona fide contribution to the project.
wide by 4-ft-high display board and Velcro for hanging your Conversely, the presenter should remain gracious by offering
display at no charge. collaborators the opportunity for recognition as a co-author. All
• Each poster booth will share a 6-ft-long by 30-inch-wide table. co-authors must be aware of their inclusion and have accepted
• Electricity is available for a fee. that recognition. Presenters must be diligent in preparing a pol-
• Wi-Fi will be available in the poster hall area. ished product that conveys high quality scholarship. Submission
• Posters should be on display from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Sun- of an abstract implies a sincere intent to attend the meeting.
day, with authors present 3:30–5:30 p.m. On Monday through
Wednesday, posters should be on display from 9 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.,
with authors present 4:30–6:30 p.m.
• Want to present your poster digitally? As a poster presenter, you
will be given the opportunity to present your poster in a digital
format. Information on this will be provided in the acceptance
notices. Presenters are responsible for all fees associated with
this type of presentation.

Request an Annual Meeting Press “I just loved it so much!! This was my
Release first GSA and I had such a blast!
Each year, GSA works to highlight scientific presenta-
tions from the Annual Meeting that may be of wider inter- I learned so much and met so many
est beyond the GSA community. If you are presenting great people, everything was very
new research that you would like to share with science
journalists and the audiences they write for, please let us well organized!”
know well in advance of the meeting. Submit a press —Feedback from GSA 2018 Indy
release request at https://bit.ly/2VAEvHr.

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