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IMPORTANT DATES

Late March: Space request system opens (non-technical, social, and 4 Aug.: Abstracts submission deadline
business-meeting room requests)
Early Aug.: Student volunteer program opens
Early May: Housing opens
21 Sept.: Early registration deadline and GSA Sections travel grants
1 April: Abstracts submission form opens deadline

Early June: Registration opens; travel grant applications open 28 Sept.: Registration and student volunteer cancellation deadline
8 June: Meeting room request deadline—fees increase after this date 30 Sept.: Housing deadline for discounted hotel rates

© Montréal Convention Centre (Palais des congrès de Montréal). © Caroline Buche.

Meeting Location con 2.5 million North Americans out of US$220 million every
Registration, technical programs, poster sessions, exhibits, and year. Only use a trusted source to make your hotel reservation,
field trip departures will be at the Palais des congrès de Montréal and beware of anyone contacting you directly via email, phone,
(Palais), 1001 Place Jean-Paul-Riopelle, Montréal, Québec, H2Z 1M2. or fax. If you have any questions, please contact the GSA meetings
department at meetings@geosociety.org. We will post information
Hotel Information to our website regarding hotel reservations in early May.
The GSA Housing Bureau will open for reservations in early
May. The DoubleTree by Hilton Montréal will serve as GSA head- Don’t Forget Your Passport
quarters, and the Le Westin Montréal is the co-headquarters hotel. Passports will be required for entry into Canada. In addition,
Both hotels are a five-minute walk from the Palais des congrès de passports should be valid for at least six months on the date of appli-
Montréal (Palais). The GSA block includes nine hotels offering cation for a visa. Participants are invited to consult the website of
rates from C$255 to C$159 single occupancy (per night, plus tax). the visa office to determine whether they will need a visa: https://
All other hotels are within a half a mile of the Palais. www.cic .gc.ca/english/visit/visas.asp. As a general rule, the valid-
Protect yourself: As the number of online hotel bookings con- ity of a Canadian visa cannot go beyond the validity of the passport.
tinues to increase, so does the rate of booking scams. According to Also, the passport must have at least two blank pages.
the American Hotel & Lodging Association, fraudulent websites

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