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and storm-activity observations for refining predictive models and PALEOCLIMATOLOGY/PALEOCEANOGRAPHY
informing mitigation and adaptation efforts.
T78. Co-Evolution of Earth’s Surface Environment
T74. Geoscience Approaches to Interpreting Coastal and Eukaryotic Life after the Great Oxidation Event
Records of Earthquakes, Tsunamis, and Storms Disciplines: Paleoclimatology/Paleoceanography, Paleontology,
Endorsers: GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Diversity, Extinction, Origination, Geochemistry
Division; GSA Marine and Coastal Geoscience Division; Advocates: Alexandra Kunert; Xinze Lu
GSA Structural Geology and Tectonics Division This session will focus on multidisciplinary (e.g., organic and
Disciplines: Marine/Coastal Science, Geomorphology, Tectonics/ inorganic geochemistry, sedimentology, paleontology, numerical
Tectonophysics modeling) approaches of reconstructing the co-evolutionary path
Advocates: Isabel Hong; Tina Dura; Frances R. Griswold; of Earth’s environment and eukaryotic life following the Great
Breanyn MacInnes Oxidation Event.
The session highlights advancements across a range of methods
aimed at identifying and characterizing event deposits, including T79. Comings and Goings of Proterozoic
earthquakes, tsunamis, and storms, in coastal environments. Global Glaciations
Endorser: Geochemical Society
T75. Methane in Marine and Coastal Geological Disciplines: Paleoclimatology/Paleoceanography, Paleontology,
Systems Diversity, Extinction, Origination, Geochemistry
Endorsers: GSA Marine and Coastal Geoscience Division; Advocates: Bing Shen; Maoyan Zhu; Xianguo Lang
GSA Sedimentary Geology Division; GSA Geobiology and This session focuses on global glaciations and geology-geobiology
Geomicrobiology Division; GSA Mineralogy, Geochemistry, in the Proterozoic.
Petrology, and Volcanology Division; GSA Geophysics and
Geodynamics Division; GSA Energy Geology Division T80. Foraminiferal Signals of Major Events in
Disciplines: Marine/Coastal Science, Geochemistry, Geophysics/ Mesozoic–Cenozoic Earth History
Geodynamics Endorsers: Cushman Foundation; Paleontological Society;
Advocates: Stephen C. Phillips; Jeanine Ash; Joel E. Johnson; Paleontological Research Institution; GSA Marine and Coastal
Kehua You Geoscience Division; Geochemical Society; GSA Sedimentary
Methane is an important molecule in Earth’s biogeochemical Geology Division
and climate cycles. We welcome submissions related to methane Disciplines: Paleoclimatology/Paleoceanography, Paleontology,
generation, migration, phase transitions (hydrates), and consump- Diversity, Extinction, Origination, Paleontology, Phylogenetic/
tion in modern or paleo-marine sedimentary or crustal environ- Morphological Patterns
ments, nearshore or offshore. Advocates: Kenneth Miller; Miriam E. Katz; Megan Fung
Benthic and planktonic foraminiferal indicators of major mile-
T76. Sea-Level Indicators: New Interpretations and stones in Mesozoic–Cenozoic Earth history: biostratigraphic,
Constraints for Future Projections paleoecologic, and geochemical evidence (Cushman Foundation
Endorsers: GSA Marine and Coastal Geoscience Division; for Foraminiferal Research Symposium).
GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division; GSA
Environmental and Engineering Geology Division; GSA Geology T81. Impacts of Volcanism on Global Climate and
and Society Division; GSA Sedimentary Geology Division Oceans—Drivers of Mass Extinctions through the
Disciplines: Marine/Coastal Science, Geomorphology, Sediments, Phanerozoic
Carbonates Endorsers: GSA Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Petrology, and
Advocates: Deirdre Ryan; Nicole Khan; Erica Ashe; Volcanology Division; GSA Geobiology and Geomicrobiology
Jessica Creveling Division; GSA Marine and Coastal Geoscience Division;
Well-constrained sea-level indicators are critical to understand U.S. Paleontology and Sedimentology; Geochemical Society;
past, present, and future global and regional sea-level variability. Paleontological Society
This session showcases state-of-the-art methods describing and Disciplines: Paleoclimatology/Paleoceanography
constraining sea-level indicators, and their value for improving Advocates: Stephen E. Grasby; Gerta Keller; David Bond;
sea-level modeling and projections. Thierry Adatte
This session examines how major volcanic eruptions impact global
T77. Subduction Top to Bottom (ST2B-2), Histories environments and biogeochemical cycles, driving mass extinction
and Processes at Modern and Ancient Convergent and ocean anoxic events throughout the Phanerozoic, and examines
Margins the fingerprints such eruptions leave in the sedimentary record.
Endorser: GSA Marine and Coastal Geoscience Division
Disciplines: Marine/Coastal Science T82. Integrative Approaches to Understanding
Advocates: David Scholl; Gray E. Bebout; Robert Stern Mesozoic Environmental and Biologic Perturbations
The Subduction Top to Bottom (ST2B) session is intended to pro- Endorser: GSA Geobiology and Geomicrobiology Division
vide a forum for the presentation of oral papers and posters address- Disciplines: Paleoclimatology/Paleoceanography
ing multi-thematic issues in subduction zone processes and histories. Advocates: Selva M. Marroquin; Benjamin C. Gill

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