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GSA CONNECTS 2022
Disciplines: Marine/Coastal Science, Paleoclimatology/ America participants, sponsors, and educators to present work and
Paleoceanography, Sediments, Carbonates describe its relevance to the public and land managers.
Advocates: Patricia Standring; Andrea D. Hawkes; Lauren Toth;
Katherine Luciano; Stephen Phillips; Deirdre D. Ryan T149. Geoscience and the Sustainable
We encourage abstracts on oceanography, marine geology, geo- Development Goals: Contributions from Students
morphology, sediment transport, geophysics, tectonics, glaciology, and Early Career Professionals
climate, marine paleobiology, or other marine- and coastal-themed Endorsers: GSA Geology and Society Division; GSA Geoscience
research. We especially want to inspire students and early-career Education Division; GSA Environmental and Engineering
scientists to submit. Geology Division; European Geosciences Union; Humanitarian
Engineering Program, Colorado School of Mines; Department of
T146. Inundation Signatures on Rocky Coastlines Geology and Environmental Science, Wheaton College;
Endorsers: GSA Marine and Coastal Geoscience Division; Department of Geology, San Jose State University; Department of
GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division; Earth, Environmental and Resource Sciences, University of Texas
ISROC (Inundation Signatures on Rocky Coastlines) Research at El Paso; The International Association for Promoting
Coordination Network; GSA Geology and Society Division; Geoethics; The Global Network for Geoscience and Society;
GSA Limnogeology Division Geology in the Public Interest; Geology for Global Development;
Disciplines: Marine/Coastal Science, Environmental Geoscience, GSA Soils and Soil Processes Division
Geoscience and Public Policy Disciplines: Geoscience and Public Policy, Geoscience Education,
Advocates: Rónadh Cox; Robert Weiss Environmental Geoscience
Understanding extreme coastal wave inundation is fundamental Advocates: Gregory Wessel; Ellen P. Metzger; Vincent S. Cronin
for long-term risk analysis. We welcome presentations related to This session inspires students at all levels and early career pro-
all aspects of hard-coast inundation, including field and modeling fessionals to present ongoing or recently completed work address-
studies, and those at the intersection with engineering and policy. ing one or more of the UN’s sustainable development goals by
applying geoscience for the public good.
GEOSCIENCE AND PUBLIC POLICY
T150. Is This the Way the World
T147. From Field to Repository: Addressing Ends? Policy, Preparedness, and Adaptation to a
Theoretical and Practical Issues in Paleontological Rapidly Changing Earth
Collecting and Collections Endorser: GSA Geology and Society Division
Endorsers: Paleontological Society; Paleontological Research Disciplines: Geoscience and Public Policy, Environmental
Institution; Cushman Foundation; GSA Geology and Society Geoscience, Geoscience Information/Communication
Division Advocates: James Heller; Lily Jackson; David Spears
Disciplines: Geoscience and Public Policy, Paleontology, This interdisciplinary session invites presentations that examine
Biogeography/Biostratigraphy, Paleontology, Paleoecology/ potentially calamitous outcomes resulting from environmental
Taphonomy and resource issues of outsized (global and regional) magnitude.
Advocates: Sandra J. Carlson; Lee Cone; Jessica D. Cundiff; Talia Presenters are invited to conjecture possible societal outcomes,
S. Karim; Joshua Lively; Donald Mikulic; Stephanie Plaza-Torres; plausible solutions, and mitigation strategies.
Carmi Milagros Thompson
This session focuses on successes and outstanding issues associ- T151. The American Geosciences
ated with fossil collections and collecting on private, federal, and Institute at 75: Implementing a Vision of Sustain-
tribal lands by professionals and amateur paleontologists; preserv- ability as a Unifying Geoscience Framework
ing physical and digital fossil data post-collection; and consistent, Endorsers: GSA Geology and Society Division; GSA Geoscience
effective stewardship of fossils and repositories. Education Division; American Association of Petroleum
Geologists; American Institute of Professional Geologists;
T148. Geoscience and Hydrology of Your Federal Association of American State Geologists; Mineralogical Society
and Other Public Lands: STEM Internships, of America; Society of Exploration Geophysicists; Society of
Research, Science, Mapping, Resource Management, Economic Geologists; Geological Association of Canada; Society
and Education for Sedimentary Geology; Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and
Endorsers: National Park Service; USDA Forest Service; Exploration; GSA Energy Geology Division
Bureau of Land Management; GSA Quaternary Geology and Disciplines: Geoscience and Public Policy, Geoscience
Geomorphology Division; GSA Geology and Society Division; Information/Communication, Geoscience Education
GSA Hydrogeology Division; GSA Energy Geology Division; Advocates: Jonathan Arthur; Paul Weimer; Jonathan Price;
GSA Geophysics and Geodynamics Division David Wunsch
Discipline: Geoscience and Public Policy The rationale behind the inception of AGI 75 years ago remains
Advocates: Chelsea Bitting; Brent H. Breithaupt; Matthew relevant today as the geosciences face unprecedented transition in
Dawson; F. Edwin Harvey; Jason Kenworthy; Lesley Petrie; scope and imperative. Looking forward at our science and profes-
Limaris Soto sion, sustainability provides a unifying framework.
This is an interdisciplinary forum for earth scientists, land man-
agers, Geoscientists-in-the-Parks, Scientists in Parks, and GeoCorps

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