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GSA CONNECTS 2021
T136. Eolian Processes, Landforms, and Chronologies T140. Paleoclimate, Paleoenvironments, and Pale-
Endorsers: GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology oceanography of Northwestern North America
Division; GSA Environmental and Engineering Geology Division; Endorsers: GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology
GSA Soils and Soil Processes Division Division; GSA Continental Scientific Drilling Division; GSA
Disciplines: Quaternary Geology, Geomorphology, Soils Marine and Coastal Geoscience Division; GSA Limnogeology
Advocates: Randall J. Schaetzl; Nick Lancaster; Phillip Kerr Division; GSA Geoarchaeology Division; American Quaternary
We encourage papers on all topics related to eolian systems, Association; Geochemical Society
processes, landforms, and chronologies. Papers on loess and sand Disciplines: Quaternary Geology, Limnogeology,
dune systems are particularly welcomed. Paleoclimatology/Paleoceanography
Advocates: Beth Caissie; Lesleigh Anderson; Alan C. Mix;
T137. From the Caspian to Mediterranean: Envi- Summer Praetorius
ronmental Change and Human Response during the From offshore in the Pacific to the Cordilleran and Beringia, we
Quaternary (INQUA IFG POCAS, IGCP 610) encourage presentations of new techniques, study locations, and
Endorsers: Avalon Institute of Applied Science, Canada; GSA insights of past climate, ecosystems, landscape/sea-surface change
Geoarchaeology Division; GSA Marine and Coastal Geoscience and human dispersal during the Neogene and Quaternary.
Division; GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology
Division; GSA Soils and Soil Processes Division T141. Reconstruction of Quaternary Paleoenviron-
Disciplines: Quaternary Geology ments at Regional and Global Scales: A Tribute to
Advocates: Valentina Yanko-Hombach; Tamara Yanina Eric C. Grimm (1951–2020)
The session provides cross-disciplinary and cross-regional Endorsers: GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology
correlation of geological, archaeological, environmental, and Division; GSA Geobiology and Geomicrobiology Division; GSA
anthropological records to explore interrelationships between Geochronology Division; GSA Geoinformatics and Data Science
environmental change and human adaptation in the Caspian– Division; GSA Geoarchaeology Division; American Quaternary
Black Sea–Mediterranean Corridors during the Quaternary. Association; GSA Sedimentary Geology Division; GSA Karst
Division
T138. Glacial Hydrology: Processes Operating Disciplines: Quaternary Geology, Geoinformatics,
within, beneath, and along the Margins of Glaciers Paleoclimatology/Paleoceanography
and Ice Sheets Advocates: Rolfe Mandel; Julie Brigham-Grette; Cathy Whitlock
Endorsers: GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Quaternary scientists mourn the loss of Eric Grimm, renowned
Division; GSA Karst Division for his studies of Quaternary paleoecology and paleoclimatology.
Discipline: Quaternary Geology This session highlights how Eric’s studies and development of
Advocates: Richard Dunn; Stephen F. Wright databases and models influenced multiproxy reconstructions of
This session focuses on glacial hydrology processes including, Quaternary paleoenvironments at regional and global scales.
but not restricted to, the evolution of glacial drainage, the influ-
ence of hydrology on ice movement, and erosional and deposi- T142. The Status of the Laurentide Ice Sheet during
tional processes beneath and adjacent to glaciers. MIS-3
Endorsers: GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology
T139. Hyperthermals of Western North America: Division; GSA Marine and Coastal Geoscience Division
Cenozoic Lessons for the Future Disciplines: Quaternary Geology, Paleoclimatology/
Endorsers: GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Paleoceanography, Marine/Coastal Science
Division; GSA Marine and Coastal Geoscience Division Advocates: Gifford H Miller; Michel Lamothe; Michel Parent;
Disciplines: Quaternary Geology, Limnogeology, Marine/Coastal Martin Roy
Science The configuration and volume of the Laurentide Ice Sheet dur-
Advocates: Jason Addison; Kristin McDougall-Reid; Miriam C. ing MIS-3 remain debated, with strong implications for sea level
Jones; Ana Christina Ravelo and the status of the Antarctic Ice Sheet. We encourage contribu-
Many times throughout the Cenozoic, temperatures were greatly tions that help resolves these uncertainties.
elevated. What causes these hyperthermals, and what are their
impacts on Earth systems? This session will explore the geological
signatures of these environments as an analog for our future.

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