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Pardee Keynote Symposia

Pardee Keynote Symposia are named in Chile to showcase recent developments in our understanding of the
honor of GSA Fellow and benefactor Joseph dynamics of these systems and identify key remaining questions.
Thomas Pardee (1871–1960) via a bequest
from Mary Pardee Kelly. Pardee is best known P3. Geoheritage: Celebrating Our Past, Protecting
for his work on Glacial Lake Missoula. These Our Future
symposia consist of invited presentations Endorsers: GSA History and Philosophy of Geology Division; GSA
covering a broad range of topics. Geology and Health Division; GSA Geology and Society Division;
GSA Geoscience Education Division; Association of American State
Joseph Thomas Pardee Geologists; History of Earth Sciences Society; National Association
(1871–1960)
of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT); GSA Soils and Soil Processes
P1. Linking Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion to the Division; GSA Marine and Coastal Geosciences Division; GSA
Climate Crisis: Inclusive Leadership and Practice Limnogeology Division
in Geoscience Disciplines: History and Philosophy of Geology, Geoscience and
Endorsers: GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Public Policy, Geoscience Education
Division; GSA Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Petrology, and Convenors: Renee Clary; William Andrews; David Mogk;
Volcanology Division; GSA Soils and Soil Processes Division; GSA Steven Semken
Geochronology Division; GSA Marine and Coastal Geosciences Geoheritage impacts our professional, public, and personal lives.
Division; GSA Geoscience Education Division; GSA Environmental Your voices and perspectives ARE important. Join us for awareness
and Engineering Geology Division; GSA Geochronology Division; of the importance of geoheritage to the ongoing health of our profes-
GSA Geology and Society Division; GSA Limnogeology Division sion, and the empowerment to recognize, conserve, and sustain the
Disciplines: Geoscience and Public Policy, Geology and Health, landscapes that impact our lives.
Geoscience Information/Communication
Convenors: Jennifer L. Pierce; Stephanie Shepherd; Nick Sutfin; P5. Geoscience and Society: Action and Inter-
Nancy F. Glenn disciplinary Engagement on Local and Global Scales
Geoscience needs a tectonic-scale change; we are the least diverse Endorsers: GSA Geology and Society Division; GSA
of all STEM fields. Our planet faces a climate crisis that dispropor- International; GSA Geology and Public Policy Committee;
tionately affects people of color and disadvantaged populations. European Geosciences Union; American Geophysical Union;
How can our discipline promote educational awareness and diverse Geological Survey of Sweden; The Global Network for
leadership opportunities to tackle these two separate but related Geoscience and Society; Geology in the Public Interest;
challenges? We encourage submissions that address the following: Geology for Global Development; Department of Geology and
What can geoscientists do to increase diversity, equity, and inclu- Environmental Science, Wheaton College; Clean Water Institute,
sion (DEI) at personal, departmental, institutional, and organiza- Calvin University; Department of Geology, San Jose State
tional levels? How can we effectively understand and address University; Department of Geological & Mining Engineering &
climate and environmental justice in research, the field, and the Sciences, Michigan Technological University; Department of
classroom? How does increasing diversity in the geosciences Earth, Environmental and Resource Sciences, The University of
promote more equitable solutions to environmental challenges? Texas at El Paso; GSA Soils and Soil Processes Division; GSA
Environmental and Engineering Geology Division; GSA Marine
P2. Cordilleran Subduction Zones: Dynamics of Plate and Coastal Geosciences Division; GSA Limnogeology Division
Deformation from Megathrust to Mountain Building Disciplines: Geoscience Education, Geoscience Information/
Endorsers: GSA International; GSA Geophysics and Geodynamics Communication, Geoscience and Public Policy
Division; GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division; Convenors: Gregory R. Wessel; Rudy Schuster; Chloe Hill;
GSA Structural Geology and Tectonics Division; GSA Marine and Nina Burkhardt
Coastal Geosciences Division The critical role that geoscience plays in advancing society is
Disciplines: Tectonics/Tectonophysics, Geophysics/Geodynamics, increasingly apparent to scientists, geoscience organizations, and
Geomorphology the public. This session aims to highlight how we, as a scientific
Convenors: Eric Kirby; Daniel Stockli; Kevin P. Furlong community, can facilitate engagement and interdisciplinary activi-
Plate convergence along the western margin of the Americas ties that will benefit society on both global and local levels. It will
occurs along an exceptional network of subduction zones. Lateral highlight existing activities that scientific organizations are coordi-
variations in the geometry and characteristics of subducting slabs nating, how scientists can get involved with them, and how they can
and overriding plates affords an opportunity to address fundamental be replicated or expanded. It will also address systemic issues that
questions regarding the mechanics of great earthquakes, the nature prevent these initiatives from being as effective as they can, such as
of transient and permanent strain, and the relative roles of crustal funding and communication challenges, and illustrate the benefits
deformation and mantle buoyancy generating forearc topography. of co-creation.
This symposium will feature a diverse group of international
researchers with expertise on subduction zones from Alaska to
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