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GSA CONNECTS ONLINE 14–15 March and had 515 attendees. FY21 HIGHLIGHTS:
In fiscal year 2021 (FY21), GSA re- Southeastern was next, on 1–2 April, and
branded the annual meeting to GSA 2020 had 376 attendees. They used a new online • The first 100% online annual
Connects Online and hosted its first 100% platform call Spatial Chat to allow for live meeting was held in October
online meeting in October 2020. There networking. North-Central and South-
were more than 6,000 attendees with an Central held a joint meeting from 18–20 • International attendance
increase in international attendees up to April with 294 attendees and also used increased to 17%
17%. For the first time, four field trips ran Spatial Chat for their networking and
100% online and 17 short courses also business meeting. Finally, Cordilleran ran • 786 GSA 2020 Connects
were held online before the meeting. More their meeting from 12–14 May with 391 Online short course
than 50 companies, organizations, and attendees and, following Southeastern participants
universities exhibited. and the Joint Meeting, also used Spatial
Hundreds of volunteers participate Chat for networking and as a poster hall • More than 1,500 people
yearly in the GSA annual meeting—from for presenters to be available to chat and attended the online spring
local organizing committee members and answer questions. The Rocky Mountain Section Meetings
the Joint Technical Program Committee to Section decided to postpone their 2021
the hundreds of session conveners from meeting originally scheduled for Fort
every geoscience discipline. There is some- Collins, Colorado, moving it to 2023. Fingerprints of Slow Earthquakes” on
thing for everyone at the annual meeting. Santa Catalina Island, California. Due to
GSA PENROSE CONFERENCES the pandemic, the conveners pushed it
“GSA is my primary professional AND THOMPSON FIELD FORUMS back first to the summer of 2021 and then
home. It's where I turn to for GSA Penrose Conferences and looked at the fall of 2021 but ultimately
data, networking, and Thompson Field Forums are GSA’s pre- decided to host the conference 1–5 April
information.” miere small-group meeting and field-trip 2022. A Thompson Field Forum has been
venues for collaborative research around awarded to run in spring/summer of FY22
ONLINE SECTION MEETINGS the world. In FY21, GSA planned to host a and another Penrose Conference will also
GSA Section Meetings are unique ven- Penrose Conference titled “The Geological run in the spring/summer of FY22.
ues for interdisciplinary science and are
an important hub for discussing and pre-
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