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CALL FOR PAPERS B-1 GSA Annual Meeting and Exposition November 1–10, 2001 Boston 2001 Premeeting Field Trips: November 1–4 Short Courses & Workshops: November 3–4 Presidential Address: November 4 A GEO-ODYSSEY Exhibits Open: November 4–7 The many aspects of Boston make it an exciting locale for GSA’s first meeting of the new millennium: a Technical Program: November 5–8 historical past dating back to the origins of our country, a modern city with a sophisticated Old World Postmeeting Field Trips: November 9–10 flair, excellent convention facilities, and ready access to diverse geological features. Field trips will Preregistration Deadline: September 28 include a variety of excursions to view crystalline rocks of the Northern Appalachians; Pleistocene and ; coastal geology; hydrological and environmental reclamation sites, such Abstracts Deadlines: as nearby Woburn of A Civil Action fame; and that will feature Boston’s new water Paper—July 17 supply tunnel and its downtown highway engineering marvel, known as the Big Dig. As the hub of Online—July 24 American history, Boston is truly unrivaled. Colonial and Revolutionary Boston can be relived along the 2001 Annual Meeting Sponsors well-marked Freedom Trail from Boston Common to Old North Church with a side excursion to the USS Constitution, or “Old Ironsides.” Subaru of America, Inc. ExxonMobil Exploration Company Not to be missed along the way, Faneuil Hall and Quincy Market are as much a mecca for shoppers today as they were in the 1800s. Just west of Boston are historic Lexington and Concord, where the 2001 Annual Meeting Host “shot heard round the world” was fired, Paul Revere made his legendary ride, and 19th century literary Boston College greats penned their famous works. To the south of Boston, Plymouth hosts replicas of the pilgrim 2001 Annual Meeting Local Committee village and the Mayflower and is, of course, home to Plymouth (granitic gneiss)! While a historical presence permeates Boston, the city itself is modern and vibrant with an array of museums, theaters, General Chair shopping, and fine dining, and a world-class symphony. The Hynes Convention Center, located in the J. Christopher Hepburn heart of the city, has been recently renovated and will serve us as an excellent site for the technical Boston College sessions with everything under one roof. [email protected] Our theme, A Geo-Odyssey, borrows liberally from the science fiction classics of Arthur Clarke and (617) 552-3642 Stanley Kubrick and is appropriate for our science and the Geological Society at the start of the 21st Technical Program Co-Chairs century. An odyssey, as defined in Webster, is a “long wandering or voyage, usually marked by many David Bush changes in fortune; an intellectual quest.” This at once puts into perspective both the history of our State University of West Georgia science and the opportunities that lie ahead. Here in New England, where the past is intimately tied to [email protected] the present, we are mindful both of the roots of our science and our need to carry the quest into the (770) 836-4597 future. Boston is the ideal place to begin this new era of geological discovery, and I invite you to join us in November 2001. Robert Young Chris Hepburn, General Chair Western Carolina University [email protected] (828) 227-3822 Field Trip Co-Chairs Contents Dave West Pardee Keynote Symposia ...... B-3 Earlham College [email protected] Topical and Discipline Sessions ...... B-4 (765) 983-1231 How to Submit Your Abstract ...... B-16 Richard (Dick) Bailey Field Trips ...... B-17 Northeastern University [email protected] Courses, Workshops, and Forum ...... B-19 (617) 373-3181 K–16 Education Programs ...... B-20 K–16 Education Chair Alan Kafka Registration ...... B-21 Boston College Student Information ...... B-22 [email protected] Travel Grants, Student Assistant Program, President’s Student (617) 552-3650 Breakfast, Graduate School Information Forum, Employment Interview Service

B-2 CALL FOR PAPERS PARDEE KEYNOTE Dennis Goldman, Geological Society of America, Boulder, Colo.; José A. Centeno, SYMPOSIA Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Invited Papers Washington, D.C.; Peter T. Bobrowsky, International Union of Geological Sciences, The Pardee Keynote Symposia are made Victoria, British Columbia, Canada; H. possible by a grant from the Joseph T. Pardee Catherine W. Skinner, Yale University, New Memorial Fund. Haven, Conn. The eight sessions that make up this year’s The emerging discipline of medical geology Pardee Keynote Symposia are special events assesses the effects of static and dynamic of broad interest to the geoscience community. science factors—natural and They represent leading-edge topics in a anthropogenic—on ecological and human scientific discipline or area of public policy, health. Health issues related to earth science address broad fundamental issues, and are factors will likely affect each of us within our interdisciplinary. Selection was on a lifetime. More geoscientists need to become competitive basis. This year’s eight Pardee aware of the field and involved in research. Symposia were reviewed and accepted by the This symposium will bring together Annual Program Committee. geoscientists and medical professionals to (All speakers are invited.) increase the awareness of these impacts and K1 : Applications the need and potential for research. to Sedimentary Geology Massachusetts coastline. K6 The Future of Biogeochemistry: Nora Noffke and Andrew H. Knoll, Harvard A Symposium in Honor of University, Cambridge, Mass. Harold C. Helgeson Microorganisms influence sedimentary compute, move, sense their environment, and Geochemical Society. Dimitri A. Sverjensky, processes, and the geobiological signatures repair themselves. Potential applications for Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.; Jan nanogeology include: ultra-small sensors and they impart provide potentially useful tools in Amend and Everett L. Shock, Washington devices, including transducers for force, University, St. Louis, Mo.; Eric H. Oelkers, reconstructions of paleoclimate and pressure, and chemical compounds; and University of Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France. paleoenvironment. This session explores molecular gears, motors, and actuators. Now is microbial processes in recent and the time to plan for applications and shape the We wish to honor and celebrate Hal the distribution of geobiological signatures in future with groundbreaking innovations. Helgeson’s achievements in theoretical , and particularly his current goals time and space. K4 Ophiolites as Problem and Solution in and projects bearing on the origin of K2 Melt in the and Upper Mantle: the of Geological Thinking petroleum, the biogeochemistry of proteins, How Much, Where, for How Long, and GSA History of Geology Division; GSA and enzymes at high temperatures with this What Significance for ? and Tectonics Division; symposium. We hope to draw as many International Geology Division; Society of researchers as possible to the exciting GSA Structural Geology and Tectonics research possibilities in areas that cross the Division; Geochemical Society; Mineralogical Economic ; Sciences Society. Sally Newcomb, retired, boundaries of the geochemical and geological Society of America. Tracy Rushmer, University sciences. of Vermont, Burlington, Vt.; Michael Brown, Silver Spring, Md.; Yildirim Dilek, Miami University of Maryland, College Park, Md.; University, Oxford, Ohio. K7 The Watershed Within: Scientific George Bergantz, University of Washington, Ophiolites are an important and controversial and Moral Reflections on Water Seattle, Wash.; Greg Hirth, Woods Hole topic in geology, strongly linked to many earth in the 21st Century Oceanographic Institute, Woods Hole, Mass. processes of the seafloor, crust, and mantle. Critical Issues Subcommittee of Geology and This symposium brings together innovative Studies of ophiolites have both reflected and Public Policy; GSA Quaternary Geology and scientists with backgrounds in , advanced the methods and theories of geology Geomorphology Division; Institute for Earth geochemistry, rock properties, and tectonics to for more than 200 years. This symposium will Science and the Environment. George W. consider melt-related processes in the provide a forum to discuss the history and Fisher, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. lithosphere. Speakers will address these development of ideas, principles, and theories established in the geological sciences as a Water use and allocation are critical global processes at a variety of length scales, policy issues. One-third of the world lives in involving established and new techniques to result of the investigations of ophiolites and ophiolitic rocks through time. areas subject to water stress. Discussions of give new insights into the role of melt during water use must consider availability, human orogenesis. K5 The Emerging Discipline equity, and needs of both ecosystems and K3 Nanogeology: The Application of of Medical Geology future generations. They require both a Nanotechnology in Earth Sciences Institute for Earth Science and the scientific understanding of water resources Environment; Armed Forces Institute of and a moral sense of how stakeholders value Jaakko K. Putkonen, University of Washington, water and understand equity. This symposium Seattle, Wash. Pathology; International Union of Geological Sciences; U.S. ; will explore both the scientific and moral Emerging nanotechnology allows COGENENVIRONMENT; IGCP #454; Swedish dimensions of global water issues. manufacturing of miniature devices that Geological Survey; Institute for Metal .

CALL FOR PAPERS B-3 K8 Water’s Many Forms in the Solar TOPICAL AND the age of arc accretion to continental margins, System: Implications for Geology, and correlation of arc terranes within the Exploration, and Life DISCIPLINE SESSIONS orogenic belt. ORAL GSA Division. Susan E.H. Invited and T2 Proterozoic Tectonic Evolution of the Sakimoto, University of Maryland, Baltimore Grenville Orogen in Eastern North County, Goddard Earth Science and Volunteered Papers America Technology Center, Greenbelt, Md.; Tracy K.P. Topical Sessions Gregg, The University at Buffalo, State Richard Tollo, George Washington University, University of New York, Buffalo, N.Y. Following is a listing of all approved topical Washington, D.C.; Louise Corriveau, sessions. These sessions are topically focused Geological Survey of Canada, Sainte-Foy, Our recent discoveries of the role of water in with a mix of invited and volunteered papers. Quebec, Canada; M.J. Bartholomew, the solar system and our expanding Sessions are designed to promote the University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. understanding of environmental ranges exchange of interdisciplinary, state-of-the-art conducive to life on Earth promise to drive information. Authors can submit papers to a Precambrian Geology; Tectonics; planetary exploration and research in the specific topical session and may choose up to Geochemistry, Other coming decades. This session explores our three scientific categories. After each topical This session focuses on the tectonic evolution current understanding of solar system water, description below, names and numbers identify of the Grenville orogen in eastern North recent solar system discoveries revolutionizing the categories as they appear on the abstract America and on innovative approaches to our understanding of the roles of water, their form. PLEASE SUBMIT ONLY IN THE MODE deciphering the igneous, metamorphic, implications for environments amenable to life, (oral or poster) AND CATEGORIES structural, and metallogenic history of and our capabilities and motivations for INDICATED in the description. An abstract Mesoproterozoic assembly and Late continued exploration. submitted in the incorrect mode will be Neoproterozoic rifting. The timing and regional transferred automatically to a discipline correlation of events and processes will be session. emphasized to bridge knowledge gaps within Online Abstracts Deadline: July 24 the eastern North American province, and to better understand the tectonic framework of Please use the new online electronic abstract mineralization and resources. ORAL form found on the GSA Web site, www.geosociety.org. An abstract submission T3 Focus on IGCP: Modern and Ancient fee of $15 for all students and $25 for all Plate Boundaries and Orogens others will be charged. (See page B16 for GSA International Division; U.S. National more information.) Committee on the Geological Sciences; Discipline Sessions International Geologic Correlation Program From the list found on the abstract form, you projects 453, 426, 440, 436, 433. Suzanne M. may choose up to three discipline categories Kay, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.; Eldridge you feel your abstract would fit best for M. Moores, University of California, Davis, Calif.; organizing purposes. The Joint Technical Mark Cloos, University of Texas, Austin, Tex. Program Committee representatives organize Tectonics; Petrology, Igneous; / the papers in sessions focused on / disciplines—for example, environmental geoscience or . Abstracts on continental and global scale perspectives comparing modern and ancient TOPICAL SESSIONS orogens and plate boundaries, particularly in the Americas, are invited. Contributions are T1 Arc Terranes in the Appalachians and encouraged on themes related to International Caledonides and their Role in Geologic Correlation Program (IGCP) projects Paleozoic Orogenesis 453–Modern and Ancient Orogens, Paul Karabinos, Williams College, 426– Systems and Proterozoic Williamstown, Mass.; James P. Hibbard, North Lithospheric Processes, 440–Rodinia Carolina State University, Raleigh, N.C.; Assembly and Breakup, 436–Pacific Anke M. Friedrich, Caltech, Pasadena, Calif. Gondwana Margins, and 433–Caribbean . ORAL and POSTER Tectonics; Geochemistry, Other; Petrology, Igneous T4 Crustal Architecture of Rifted Continental Margins This session will bring together recent studies Webster V. Mohriak, Petroleo Brasileiro S.A., from a variety of disciplines that constrain the Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Bruce R. Rosendahl, paleogeographic and tectonic reconstruction of University of Miami, Miami, Fla. arc terranes in the Appalachians and Caledonides. The arc terranes include the Geophysics/Tectonophysics/Seismology; Mesozoic dolerite dikes cutting Proterozoic segments that make up Avalonia and the arcs Remote Sensing/Geographic Information Dedham Granite. Light gray xenolith of that formed within Iapetus during the System; Quaternary Geology/Geomorphology Proterozoic Westboro formation in upper left of Paleozoic. Key questions to be addressed photo. Saugus, Mass. Photo by Richard H. Bailey. include the age and location of arc formation,

B-4 CALL FOR PAPERS The session will be devoted to the analysis of T7 The Proterozoic of the Eastern T10 Holocene Climate Change: Seasonal geological and geophysical data acquired in Midcontinent and Beyond Variability to Centennial Trends Atlantic-type divergent continental margins, GSA Geophysics Division; Illinois Basin Lisa Greer, University of Miami, Miami, Fla.; integrating state-of-the-art techniques in Consortium. James A. Drahovzal, Lexington, David Hodell, University of Florida, seismic imaging and interpretation of deep Ky.; John H. McBride, Illinois State Geological Gainesville, Fla. structures, potential field analysis (gravity and Survey and Dept. of Geology, Champaign, Ill. magnetics), and petroleum geology methods. /Paleoceanography; Invited talks will cover a wide spectrum of Geophysics/Tectonophysics/Seismology; Planetary Geology; Public Policy sedimentary basins from conjugate margins in Petrology, Igneous; Remote Sensing/ the Atlantic . ORAL and POSTER Geographic Information System It is increasingly apparent that Holocene climate has been more complex and variable T5 Melt in the Crust and Upper Mantle: Newly available conventional and deep than once thought. Examples of Holocene How Much, Where, for How Long, and seismic reflection data are changing our climate change include: abrupt changes in What Significance for Geodynamics? understand-ing of the Proterozoic architecture regional evaporation and precipitation, decadal in the eastern and southern midcontinent of oscillations in ocean/atmosphere dynamics, GSA Structural Geology and Tectonics North America. Layered sequences of these and changes in seasonality as related to Division; Mineralogical Society of America; areas will be examined, comparing them to Holocene insolation. We seek presentations Geochemical Society. Tracy Rushmer, similar Precambrian sequences in other parts related to any aspect of Holocene climate University of Vermont, Burlington, Vt.; Greg of the world. Also examined will be their change. ORAL Hirth, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, chronology, tectonics, and . ORAL Woods Hole, Mass.; Michael Brown, University and POSTER T11 Sulfur Cycling in Precambrian to of Maryland, College Park, Md.; George Recent Ocean-Atmosphere Systems: Bergantz, University of Washington, Seattle, T8 “Traces” of Soil Ecosystems through A Session Honoring the Career of Wash. the Phanerozoic: New Insights into William T. Holser Terrestrial Paleoecology, Tectonics; Remote Sensing/Geographic Geochemical Society. Timothy W. Lyons, Information System; Geochemistry, Other Paleohydrology, and Paleoclimate University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo.; Alan J. This symposium brings together innovative Stephen T. Hasiotis, Indiana State University, Kaufman, University of Maryland, College scientists with backgrounds in petrology, Terre Haute, Ind.; Marilyn D. Wegweiser, Ball Park, Md. State University, Muncie, Ind. geochemistry, rock properties, and tectonics to Geochemistry, Aqueous; ; consider melt-related processes in the /Paleobotany; Paleoclimatology/ Precambrian Geology lithosphere. Speakers will address these Paleoceanography; Geochemistry, Organic processes at a variety of length scales, Sulfur isotopes record a complex interplay of involving established and new techniques to Studies identifying and understanding environmental conditions in modern and give new insights into the role of melt during organism-substrate and organism-organism ancient settings. This session will emphasize orogenesis. ORAL and POSTER interactions representative of ancient soil how recent studies of microbial pathways and ecosystems that further our understanding of new and refined analytical and modeling T6 Evolution of the Precambrian Earth global changes in terrestrial paleoecology, and approaches have improved our ability to infer GSA Geophysics Division; GSA Structural biogeochemical cycling and paleoclimates in ancient environments using sulfur Geology and Tectonics Division. Walter the deep geologic past. Types of studies could geochemistry. ORAL include forms of integrated paleopedologic, Mooney, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, T12 Stratigraphic Paleobiology Calif., Herwart Helmstaedt, Queen’s University, geochemical, ichnologic, paleobiologic, Kingston, Ontario, Canada; Desmond E. sedimentologic, paleoecologic, and paleo- Paleontological Society. Steven M. Holland, Moser, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah; climatologic research. ORAL University of Georgia, , Ga.; Mark E. Irina Artemieva, University of Uppsala, Patzkowsky, Pennsylvania State University, T9 New Insights into Late Ordovician University Park, Pa. Sweden. Climate, Oceanography, and Geophysics/Tectonophysics/Seismology; Tectonics Paleontology/Paleobotany; Public Policy; Paleoclimatology/Paleoceanography Geochemistry, Other; Structural Geology GSA Sedimentary Geology Division. Michael The evolution of the Precambrian Earth is an C. Pope, Washington State University, Recent years have witnessed a renaissance in outstanding problem in the earth sciences: (1) Pullman, Wash.; Mark T. Harris, University of stratigraphy, with new insights into the What processes were active during the Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisc. genesis of the stratigraphic record. This new stratigraphy includes sequence stratigraphy, Precambrian? (2) What has been the crustal Public Policy; ; Paleoclimatology/ event stratigraphy, shell bed genesis, growth rate in the past 4.0 Ga? and (3) How Paleoceanography does Precambrian subcrustal lithosphere stratigraphic modeling, and improved quantit- form? Many new concepts have recently A full understanding of the stratigraphic record ative techniques. This session will highlight emerged from detailed geologic field studies, of the Late Ordovician glaciation requires the those who have integrated these recent geophysical surveys, and geochemical integration of paleontology, stratigraphy, stratigraphic advances in their paleobiological analyses. This session will be a broad climate modeling, geochemistry, and research. ORAL oceanography. We encourage contributions discussion of the evolution of the Precambrian. T13 Foraminifera: Barometers ORAL and POSTER dealing with the causal relations between the stratigraphic record, climate, oceanographic, of the Biotic and Abiotic World or large-scale tectonic events during this Cushman Foundation. Martin A. Buzas, period. ORAL and POSTER Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.;

CALL FOR PAPERS B-5 Stephen J. Culver, East Carolina University, T17 The Record of Fire: seismic reflection data and boreholes from the Greenville, N.C. Recognition and Effects Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plains and Bahamas provide a huge database that can be used to Andrew C. Scott, Royal Holloway, University Paleoclimatology/Paleoceanography; Paleon- evaluate fundamental controls on the of London, Egham, Surrey, U.K.; Howard tology/Paleobotany; Marine/Coastal Science stratigraphic record. We seek broad examples Falcon-Lang, Dalhousie University, Halifax, from Late Cretaceous–Recent sequences on This session will focus on the new and Nova Scotia, Canada innovative uses of foraminiferal data to study this margin that illustrate controls on sequence climatic and oceanographic change, -level Sediments, Clastic; Paleontology/Paleobotany; development. ORAL Quaternary Geology/Geomorphology change, hurricane activity, T20 Near-Surface Stratigraphic precursors, and biotic response to such Fire plays an important part in many of today’s Heterogeneity Beneath the Coastal environmental changes. ORAL terrestrial ecosystems and has played an Plain and Continental Shelf of T14 Partnerships in Paleontology: important role on Earth over the past 325 m.y. Eastern North America: Spatial and Involving the Public Many, however, are uncertain in recognizing Temporal Influences on in Collaborative Research charcoal and other evidence of fire or the Framework Geology, Processes, effects of fire. These two issues are addressed , and Morphology Paleontological Society. Paul G. Harnik and and will be of interest to all working in the Robert M. Ross, Paleontological Research terrestrial and marine realms as well as those M. Scott Harris, Coastal Carolina University, Institution, Ithaca, N.Y. interested in paleoclimates and paleo- Conway, S.C.; Gerald H. Johnson, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Va. Paleontology/Paleobotany; Geoscience atmospheres. ORAL Education; Geoscience Information/ T18 in a Sequence Quaternary Geology/Geomorphology; Communication Stratigraphic Framework, Paleozoic Marine/Coastal Science; Stratigraphy Research partnerships formed between through Cenozoic The framework geology of near-surface paleontologists and members of the public are W. Burleigh Harris, University of North coastal plain and continental shelf deposits powerful tools for teaching scientific literacy Carolina, Wilmington, N.C.; Gerald R. Baum, often shows that stratigraphic heterogeneity and developing scientifically meaningful Maryland Geological Survey, Baltimore, Md.; creates a strong influence on modern and databases for use in answering critical Paul D. Fullagar, University of North Carolina, ancient sedimentation patterns. Inclusion of questions in paleobiology. Contributions on Chapel Hill, N.C. heterogeneity as a standard subsurface model projects in any phase of development are element in local and regional stratigraphic welcome, with particular interest in issues of Stratigraphy; Geochemistry, Other; Paleon- studies allows for better prediction and data quality and learning assessment. ORAL tology/Paleobotany understanding of distribution and morphology. Abstracts on stratigraphic studies Sequence stratigraphy is based on the T15 Special Session and application of the heterogeneity model are principle that sequence boundaries in Honor of Half Zantop welcome. POSTER everywhere are synchronous. Although Society of Economic Geologists. Helen N. numerous sequence stratigraphic studies have Mango, Castleton State College, Castleton, T21 Recent Advances examined the lithostratigraphic and in Deep-Water Facies Models Vt.; J. Bruce Gemmell, University of Tasmania, biostratigraphic aspects of depositional Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. sequences, few have addressed radiometric GSA Sedimentary Geology Division; SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology) Sequence ; Geochemistry, Other dating. This session will examine radiometric dates within a depositional sequence Stratigraphy Research Group. Art D. Donovan, This session presents the results of geological framework. Issues to be addressed include the BP, Houston, Tex.; Morgan D. Sullivan, research conducted by former students and accuracy and precision of dates and the ExxonMobil, Houston, Tex. coworkers of Half Zantop and research done significance of sequence boundaries on a Sediments, Clastic; Stratigraphy; independently by other colleagues. One focus global scale. ORAL Geophysics/Tectonophysics/Seismology will be on epithermal deposits of Mexico, but contributions are also encouraged on T19 New Perspectives on the Character Recent advances in seismic data quality and diverse topics in economic geology and and Origin of Late Cretaceous– visualization techniques are providing geochemistry including isotopes. ORAL Cenozoic Sequences on the U.S. geoscientists with an unparalleled opportunity Atlantic Margin to image deep-water reservoirs. This data, T16 Insects and Terrestrial Arthropods in Kenneth G. Miller, Rutgers, The State coupled with recent detailed outcrop studies, the Fossil Record: Are So Many has led to a revolution in our knowledge of the Really Represented by So Few? University of New Jersey, Piscataway, N.J.; Peter J. Sugarman, New Jersey Geological stratigraphy, depositional processes, Paleontological Society. Robert E. Nelson, Survey, Trenton, N.J.; Nicholas Christie-Blick, architectures, and facies models of deep-water Colby College, Waterville, Maine. Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of deposits. ORAL Paleontology/Paleobotany; Public Policy; Columbia University, Palisades, N.Y. Stratigraphy Stratigraphy; Paleoclimatology/ Are insects, so abundant in today’s world, Paleoceanography; Sediments, Clastic really that rare in the fossil record, or have we Sequences objectively subdivide the simply not seen them? A session to be stratigraphic record, though effects of sea devoted to the diversity of terrestrial arthropod level, tectonics, and supply are hotly faunas from throughout the geologic column. debated. Recent acquisition of high-resolution ORAL and POSTER

B-6 CALL FOR PAPERS T22 Quaternary Stratigraphy in textures; and analytical geomorphology and Geochemistry, Other; Marine/Coastal Science; Glaciated Terranes: Techniques, clastic sedimentary geology. We also welcome Sediments, Clastic Tools, and Mapping broader contributions on the role of sediment mechanics in sedimentary geology, both from Organic-rich sediments are deposited in many GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology research and instructional perspectives. ORAL types of marine settings. The steep Division. Kathy Goetz Troost, University of geochemical gradients that exist within these Washington, Seattle, Wash.; Richard C. Berg, T25 Geochemistry of Siliciclastic sediments have hampered efforts to Illinois State Geological Survey, Champaign, Materials: Provenance, Paleoclimates, understand the geochemistry of their solid and Ill.; Derek B. Booth, University of Washington, and Plate Tectonic Settings pore-water phases. Presentations in this Seattle, Wash. session will explore relevant technical and GSA Sedimentary Geology Division. theoretical advances in areas of sediment Planetary Geology; Public Policy; Engineering Christopher M. Fedo, George Washington geochemistry such as stable isotopes, organic Geology The goal of this poster session is to provide a forum for presenting the results of Quaternary stratigraphic efforts regardless of their origin— be it for cleanup of a contaminated site, evaluation of geologic hazards, or for producing quadrangle maps. We are interested in the analytical techniques and tools being used for identifying and/or correlating stratigraphic units, and in the methods being used for mapping stratigraphic units. POSTER T23 Sediment-Hosted Lead-Zinc Deposits: Roles of Basin Evolution, Tectonics, and Geochemistry in Ore Genesis Society of Economic Geologists. Donald F. Sangster, North Gower, Ontario, Canada; George P. Cole, Cominco American Incorporated, Spokane, Wash.; John F. Slack, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Va. View to south from East Point, Nahant, across Massachusetts Bay toward Boston. Rocks are early strata injected by mafic sills and dikes. Nahant, Mass. Photo by Richard H. Bailey. Economic Geology; Geochemistry, Aqueous; Remote Sensing/Geographic Information biomarkers, authigenic , System University, Washington, D.C.; Grant M. Young geomicrobiology, redox-sensitive metals, and and H. Wayne Nesbitt, University of Western radionuclides. ORAL and POSTER Recent studies have revealed new insights into Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada; J. Michael the genesis of sediment-hosted lead-zinc Palin, Australian National University, Canberra, T27 Evaporite Systems: The Geology, deposits occurring in carbonate and clastic Australia. Paleontology, and Biology of sedimentary rocks and their metamorphosed Evaporite and Near-Evaporite equivalents. Contributions are encouraged on Sediments, Clastic; Paleoclimatology/ Paleoceanography; Tectonics Systems in Both Terrestrial and the role of depositional, diagenetic, tectonic, Extraterrestrial Environments magmatic, and geochemical processes, and Geochemical studies involving major and trace NASAAstrobiology Institute–Johnson Space on the absolute age and duration of elements and isotopes in siliciclastic materials Center. Susan J. Wentworth, Lockheed Martin, mineralization in the formation of these diverse provide critical data on the evolution of the NASA–Johnson Space Center, Houston, ore deposits. ORAL lithosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and Tex.; Penny A. Morris, University of Houston— atmosphere, and about Earth’s regulating T24 Dynamics of Sediments and Downtown, Houston, Tex. Sedimentary Environments: A mechanisms and large-scale processes. We Session in Honor of John B. Southard encourage contributions dealing with the Geomicrobiology; Paleontology/Paleobotany; geochemistry of , investigations of Sediments, Carbonates GSA Sedimentary Geology Division; SEPM modern and ancient detrital sedimentary (Society for Sedimentary Geology). Peter R. materials, isotopic methods of provenance Studies of evaporites and near-evaporites Wilcock, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, determination, and compositional changes (including samples transitional from evaporites Md.; Chris Paola, University of Minnesota, resulting from diagenesis. ORAL to saline or fresh-water environments) from Minneapolis, Minn. Earth, Mars, and/or meteorites. Types of T26 Geochemistry of Organic-Rich studies could include, but are not restricted to Sediments, Clastic; Stratigraphy; Marine/ Sediments from Estuaries, geology, geomicrobiology, mineralogy, Coastal Science Continental Shelves, Basins, paleontology, biology, remote sensing, and We welcome contributions spanning the range and Upwelling Zones geochemistry. ORAL and POSTER of topics John Southard worked on during his John F. Bratton, U.S. Geological Survey, T28 High-Resolution Investigations of research career: by Woods Hole, Mass.; Jennifer L. Morford, the Morphodynamics and currents, waves, mass flows, and wind; bed Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Sedimentary Evolution of Estuaries forms and primary and Hole, Mass. Jasper Knight, University of Ulster, Coleraine,

CALL FOR PAPERS B-7 U.K.; Duncan FitzGerald, Boston University, Sediments, Carbonates; Sediments, Clastic; T33 Coastal Programs: Boston, Mass.; Christopher K. Sommerfield, Stratigraphy Collaborative Geologic Research University of Delaware, Lewes, Del. A focus on controversial aspects including in Action Marine/Coastal Science; Quaternary Geology/ cross-margin correlations and facies changes; Harry Martin Jol, University of Wisconsin, Geomorphology; Sediments, Clastic aggradation or progradation vs. antecedent Eau Claire, Wisc.; Sandy Vanderburgh, topography; early vs. burial diagenesis; University College of the Fraser Valley, This session will focus on the morpho- sea level vs. tectonics; margin truncation; Abbotsford, Ontario, Canada. sedimentary evolution of estuaries using high- application of sequence stratigraphy; resolution geophysics, field observations, and preferential location of ore and hydrocarbon. Marine/Coastal Science; Stratigraphy; Public numerical modeling. Aspects considered will ORAL Policy include long- and short-term changes in sediment budgets, sedimentary processes and Coastal Erosion Programs are to provide solid estuary dynamics, and the role of infrequent technical data and analysis about the local and high-magnitude events such as storms. ORAL regional coastal systems to local communities and agencies who, armed with the information, T29 Linking Sediment Dynamics can tackle land use decisions with a regional and Stratigraphy in perspective. This session will report on the Modern-Holocene Estuaries variety of data sets collected and resulting geological interpretations and models. ORAL GSA Sedimentary Geology Division. Christopher Sommerfield, University of T34 Coastal Geology of the National Parks Delaware, Lewes, Del.; Rocky Geyer, GSA Sedimentary Geology Division. Rebecca Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods L. Beavers, National Park Service, Denver, Hole, Mass. Colo.; Suzette M. Kimball, U.S. Geological Marine/Coastal Science; Quaternary Survey, Kearneysville, W.Va. Geology/Geomorphology; Stratigraphy Marine/Coastal Science; Sediments, Clastic; Estuarine sedimentary deposits provide high- Public Policy resolution records of hydrologic and oceanic The National Park Service manages 7,310 processes on multiple temporal and spatial miles of coastline with unique natural and scales and are therefore valuable natural cultural resources. These lands provide recording systems. This session considers research sites for numerous geologic studies, mechanisms of sediment , erosion but communication of this research to park and strata formation in estuaries toward Conglomerate at base of Pennsylvania Pondville managers is needed to effectively manage rational interpretation of sedimentary archives. Formation; largest boulders are about these areas and preserve these resources for Presentations will span a gamut of one meter in diameter. future generations. Abstracts on coastal observational and modeling studies of Canton, Mass. Photo by J. Christopher Hepburn. research in National Parks and adjacent lands sedimentary processes and environments in as well as applications of geologic research to modern-Holocene estuarine systems. ORAL T32 America’s Coastal Crisis—Providing ecosystem management, interpretation, and the Geoscience Information/ T30 Anoxia and Black Shale Deposition education are encouraged. ORAL and Communication Needed to Conserve POSTER D. Jeffrey Over, State University of New York, and Protect Coastal Resources Geneseo, N.Y.; Frank Ettensohn, University of GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology T35 Diffusive Transport Processes Kentucky, Lexington, Ky. Division. S. Jeffress Williams, U.S. Geological in the Subsurface Stratigraphy; Paleoclimatology/ Survey, Woods Hole, Mass.; Shea Penland, GSA Division. Thomas B. Paleoceanography; Sediments, Clastic University of New Orleans, New Orleans, La. Boving, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, R.I.; John E. McCray, Colorado School of Environmental Geoscience; Geoscience Several models have been proposed for the Mines, Golden, Colo. origin of organic-rich shales. The roles of basin Education; Economic Geology stratification and productivity with regard to Hydrogeology; Geochemistry, Aqueous; All coastal states are experiencing widespread water depth, tectonic setting, oxygen levels, Environmental Geoscience erosion and other hazards (storms, sea-level and sedimentation are still controversial and rise, subsidence). Most hazards result from In materials of very low permeability (e.g., clay make this an interdisciplinary problem. The natural processes, but many regions face layers) diffusion may be the dominant transport session will bring together workers to update increased risk due to unwise development and process. It is therefore not surprising that and propose ideas related to the development man-made alterations. Projections show that diffusive transport has received much of anoxia. ORAL population growth and development in the attention, for example, concerning the safe T31 The Margins of Reefs coastal zone will continue at the same time disposal of radioactive wastes or the fate and and Carbonate Platforms that hazards increase. To educate the public transport of contaminants and tracers. For about the long-term implications of this predicting the fate and transport of diffusing GSA Sedimentary Geology Division; SEPM looming crisis, credible geoscience information compounds, a detailed understanding of (Society for Sedimentary Geology). Edward L. is important. ORAL and POSTER diffusion processes and the experimental Winterer, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, methods to measure diffusion parameters is La Jolla, Calif.; Robert N. Ginsburg, University essential. ORAL of Miami, Miami, Fla.

B-8 CALL FOR PAPERS T36 Uncertainty in Vadose Zone difficult, due to the highly heterogeneous regional aquifers. We invite presentations that Flow and Transport Prediction nature of fractured rocks. This session focuses focus on various aspects of regional on approaches and case studies to bridge the groundwater availability modeling including GSA Hydrogeology Division. Michael J. gap between field characterization and model conceptual modeling, recharge, hydraulic Nicholl, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho; development. ORAL parameters, surface water–groundwater Robert M. Holt, University of Mississippi, interaction, and the integration of groundwater University, Miss. T39 Geochemistry of Karst Waters: A modeling with policy and planning. ORAL Hydrogeology; Engineering Geology; Window on Hydrogeology and Biota T42 Groundwater Discharge to Estuaries Environmental Geoscience J.B. Martin, University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla.; C. Groves, Western Kentucky University, GSA Hydrogeology Division; National Ground In the vadose zone, geologic heterogeneity Bowling Green, Ky. Water Association. Thomas E. McKenna, combines with a myriad of highly nonlinear Delaware Geological Survey, Newark, Del.; processes to create a complex hydrologic Hydrogeology; Geochemistry, Aqueous; Jonathan B. Martin, University of Florida, regime that we are just beginning to Sediments, Carbonates Gainesville, Fla. understand. This session will consider sources of uncertainty that limit our ability to predict The physical behavior of karst aquifers can Hydrogeology; Marine/Coastal Science; flow and transport in the vadose zone. commonly be determined on the basis of the Environmental Geoscience Potential sources of uncertainty include: chemical composition of the karst water. Groundwater discharge to an estuary can property measurement, large-scale Similarly, the distribution and health of represent a significant component of the water characterization, long-term monitoring, microscopic and macroscopic fauna living in budget for an estuary’s watershed. This numerical simulation, and underlying the subsurface depends on the chemical session encourages papers on the chemistry conceptual models. ORAL composition and contaminant distribution in karst aquifers. This symposium solicits papers and physics of groundwater discharge to T37 Recent Advancements in Aquifer on natural chemical and isotopic tracers that coastal estuaries. Discharge to lakes or Hydraulics and Their Applications provide new and novel ways to understand the will be considered if the paper includes to Aquifer and Vadose Zone hydrogeology and biology of karst aquifers. innovative techniques applicable to an Characterization, Remediation, and ORAL estuarine environment. ORAL Dewatering T40 Isotopic Tracers and Thermal T43 Iron in Sedimentary Aquifers: GSA Hydrogeology Division. Hongbin Zhan, Anomaly Data as Constraints Biological, Chemical, and Physical Texas A&M University, College Station, Tex.; on Groundwater Flow Patterns Controls on Iron Mobility Vitaly A. Zlotnik, University of Nebraska, and Climate History within GSA Hydrogeology Division; SEPM (Society Lincoln, Nebr. Sedimentary Systems for Sedimentary Geology). Janet S. Herman, Hydrogeology; Environmental Geoscience; GSA Hydrogeology Division. Maria Clara University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.; Engineering Geology Castro, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Isabelle M. Cozzarelli, U.S. Geological Survey, Mich.; Mark A. Person, University of Reston, Va.; Marjorie A. Chan, University of Methods of the aquifer and vadose zone Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn. Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah. characterization include aquifer tests by the horizontal and vertical wells, slug tests, Hydrogeology; Paleoclimatology/ Hydrogeology; Sediments, Clastic; borehole flow-meter tests, dipole-flow tests, Paleoceanography; Economic Geology Geochemistry, Aqueous air permeameters, and other methods. This 4 14 Iron mobility in modern and ancient session solicits papers on new developments Isotopic tracers such as He, C, heat flow anomalies, and stable isotopes of groundwater sedimentary deposits is linked to the presence in aquifer hydraulics, including new well types, of organic compounds. We seek improved testing methods, and the applications to in sedimentary systems permit qualitative information and quantification of vertical understanding of the physical, chemical, and aquifer and vadose zone characterization, biological processes influencing iron. remediation, and dewatering. ORAL leakage rates and provide constraints on the hydraulic conductivity of aquifers and confining Hydrogeologists dealing with the fate of T38 Flow and Transport in Fractured units. Used in conjunction with numerical organic contaminants in aquifers, geochemists Aquifers—From Field models, tracers provide additional constraints studying diagenesis in unconsolidated surficial Characterization to Model on water and mass transport rates, subsurface deposits, and sedimentologists inferring the Construction flow patterns, and paleoclimatic information. cementation history of ancient clastic We invite papers that emphasize these sediments will engage in a discussion about GSA Hydrogeology Division. Todd Halihan, themes. ORAL and POSTER iron in sedimentary aquifers. ORAL Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Okla.; David A. Benson, Desert Research Institute, T41 Groundwater Availability Modeling T44 and Hydrogeology of Extreme Environments Reno, Nev. GSA Hydrogeology Division. Robert E. Mace, Hydrogeology; Engineering Geology; Texas Water Development Board, Austin, Tex.; GSA Hydrogeology Division. W. Berry Lyons, Environmental Geoscience Bridget R. Scanlon and Alan R. Dutton, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. University of Texas, Austin, Tex. Although recent advances such as fracture Hydrogeology; Geochemistry, Aqueous; pattern analysis, borehole imaging, and Hydrogeology; Environmental Geoscience; Environmental Geoscience Public Policy fracture-flow models have enhanced the field This session will focus on hydrologic characterization and modeling of fluid flow in This session will focus on the use of numerical responses in extreme environments like polar fractured rocks, effective integration of field groundwater flow models to evaluate the regions, deserts, and very high rainfall alpine results and model development remains current and future availability of water in settings. Papers dealing with both long-term

CALL FOR PAPERS B-9 data sets and extreme events are encouraged. T48 Application of Geochemistry to and their research applications in evolution, The geochemical and biogeochemical Understanding Groundwater–Surface paleobiology, paleoecology, and paleo- consequences of extreme hydrologic events Water Interactions climatology. ORAL will also be considered in this session. ORAL GSA Hydrogeology Division. James M. T51 Novel Applications of Bulk and T45 Borehole Geophysical Analysis Thomas, Desert Research Institute, Reno, Compound Specific Stable and Techniques for the Definition of Nev.; Timothy P. Rose, Lawrence Livermore Radiogenic Isotopes for the Solution Aquifer Properties National Laboratory, Livermore, Calif. of Problems in Organic Geochemistry Hydrogeology Division. Frederick L. Paillet, Geochemistry, Aqueous; Hydrogeology; Michael H. Engel, University of Oklahoma, Littleton, Colo.; Allen M. Shapiro, U.S. Environmental Geoscience Norman, Okla.; Kai-Uwe Hinrichs, Woods Hole Geological Survey, Reston, Va. Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Mass. Abstracts are invited for studies that use Hydrogeology; Geophysics/ geochemical and isotopic data to help Geochemistry, Organic; Geomicrobiology; Tectonophysics/Seismology; Environmental understand groundwater–surface water Paleoclimatology/Paleoceanography Geoscience interactions and associated geochemical processes. Topics may include, but are not Advances in analytical techniques and Groundwater model applications are limited by limited to, recharge and infiltration processes, instrumentation provide new opportunities for the need to specify aquifer parameters and river and lake hydrology, and artificial assessment of the distribution of stable and boundary conditions. This session will focus on recharge. ORAL radiogenic isotopes of elements (C, H, N, O, S) new and emerging borehole geophysical that comprise organic matter in geological methods and novel interpretations of borehole T49 Novel Approaches to Tracing materials. While the focus is on novel geophysical data that can be applied in the Groundwater Flow Systems and applications, we intend to cover a variety of estimation of aquifer dimensions, parameters, Aquifer Processes: Applications of topics, including recent and ancient sediments, and boundary conditions, and such properties Isotopic and Trace Element Data ecosystems, climates, and fossil fuels. ORAL as anisotropy and heterogeneity that influence fluid movement and chemical migration. ORAL GSA Hydrogeology Division. Kevin H. T52 Geologic Research and Projects Johannesson, Old Dominion University, for Understanding 21st Century T46 Applications of Norfolk, Va.; Alan E. Fryar, University of Engineering Geology and Geophysics in Hydrogeology Kentucky, Lexington, Ky. GSA Engineering Geology Division; Association GSA Hydrogeology Division; GSA Hydrogeology; Geochemistry, Aqueous; of Engineering Geologists. Duane A. Eversoll, Sedimentology Division. David W Hyndman, Environmental Geoscience University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebr. Michigan State University, East Lansing, Mich.; Sarah Kruse, University of South Florida, Improvements in analytical techniques and Engineering Geology; Environmental Tampa, Fla.; Gary Stephen Weissmann, instrumentation have facilitated significant Geoscience; Geoscience Education Michigan State University, East Lansing, Mich. advances in the study of in situ tracers, such as Sr-isotopes, U-series isotopes, 4He, and New technology and the fast-changing world Hydrogeology; Public Policy; Geophysics/ trace elements, within groundwater systems. dictate the way engineering geologists view Tectonophysics/Seismology These tracers can provide investigators with and complete their work. This poster session powerful tools for examining groundwater flow will encourage presentations by scientists and Sedimentological and geophysical studies systematics and aquifer processes. This students from a wide variety of engineering aimed at improving hydrogeological models session will present a forum for addressing the geology disciplines to present their case through better characterization of aquifer most recent developments in application of in histories, research projects, plans, or studies properties or resolution of hydrostratigraphic situ tracers in groundwater studies. ORAL to expand awareness of engineering geology units. We encourage contributions from in today’s world. POSTER carbonate and clastic environments, as well as T50 High-Resolution Geochemical vadose and saturated zone studies. ORAL Bioarchives: Recognition of Signals T53 Geology and Tunneling: Case Histories T47 Developing Countries Session: and Implications for Evolution, Sustainable Groundwater Paleoecology, and Paleoclimatology GSA Engineering Geology Division; American Rock Mechanics Association. Herbert H. Management in Developing Countries Paleontological Society. David H. Goodwin, Einstein, Massachusetts Institute of University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz.; Stephen A. for Protecting the Quality and Technology, Cambridge, Mass.; Judy Ehlen, Schellenberg, University of California, Santa Quantity of Groundwater USA Engineer Research & Development Cruz, Calif. Association of Geoscientists for International Center, Alexandria, Va. Development (AGID). Shrikant Daji Limaye, Paleontology/Paleobotany; Paleoclimatology/ Engineering Geology; Hydrogeology; President, AGID, and Vice-President (Asia), Paleoceanography; Geochemistry, Other Structural Geology International Association of Hydrogeologists, Paleontological studies are increasingly Poona-Pune, India. Geology plays a major role in tunneling, focusing on high-resolution elemental and particularly in unfavorable environments, such Hydrogeology; Environmental Geoscience isotopic records preserved in the ontogenetic as zones, high water inflow, and highly growth histories of fossil organisms. These Papers for this session should deal with deformable rock or soil conditions. Hence, high-resolution geochemical studies are laboratory or fieldwork related to groundwater geologic conditions represent a major cost changing and improving our understanding of development programs for irrigation and/or factor in tunneling. The importance of geology ancient life and environments. This session will domestic water supply from geoscientists in to tunneling will be illustrated using case highlight the current understanding of these developed countries and developing countries. histories. ORAL geochemical bioarchiving systems ORAL and POSTER

B-10 CALL FOR PAPERS T54 Case Histories in Site scale quarry landscapes, extraction Hudec, University of Windsor, Windsor, Characterization technology, quarry implements, the Ontario, Canada; Terry R. West, Purdue relationship between mines and quarries and University, West Lafayette, Ind. GSA Engineering Geology Division; subsistence sites and quarries in a social Association of Engineering Geologists. Judy context. ORAL Engineering Geology; Environmental Ehlen, USA Engineer Research & Geoscience; Geophysics/Tectonophysics/ Development Center, Alexandria, Va.; Allen T56 Geology Applied to Gas Works Site Seismology Wayne Hatheway, Retired Professor of Characterization Geological Engineering, University of Missouri, Rock is a widely used construction material. Rolla, Mo. GSA Engineering Geology Division; Geologists and petrographers who apply Association of Engineering Geologists. Allen geologic techniques in their analyses study Engineering Geology; Structural Geology; Wayne Hatheway, Retired Professor of suitability of construction materials, their Quaternary Geology/Geomorphology Geological Engineering, University of Missouri, sources, and completed structures. Quarries, Rolla, Mo.; Dennis Unites, Atlantic gravel pits, mines, and the engineering structures built from these materials, are investigated using field and lab techniques. The session will allow researchers to exchange fresh ideas in the fields of resource management and material properties and durability. ORAL T58 Construction and Geology of the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority Tunnel, Eastern Massachusetts Mario Carnevale, Hager Geoscience, Waltham, Mass.; Stephen B. Mabee, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Mass. Engineering Geology; Hydrogeology; Quaternary Geology/Geomorphology The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA) has just completed construction of the 28 km long MetroWest Water Supply Tunnel connecting the Wachusett Reservoir in central Massachusetts with the Metropolitan Granite boulder in Proterozoic Roxbury Formation; Squantum member. This rock, thought for many years to Boston water supply distribution system. This be a tillite, is now interpreted to be a submarine debris flow deposit. Squaw Rock Park, Squantum, Mass. topical session will discuss the design, Photo by Richard H. Bailey. construction, geological, and hydrogeological Site characterization is the basis for aspects of the tunnel. Individuals participating Environmental Services/GEI, Colchester, in scientific investigations in the MWRA tunnel professional practice in engineering geology, Conn. providing the foundation for optimal design or other large tunnel projects around the world preparation for all manner of engineered Engineering Geology; Environmental are invited to submit abstracts. ORAL works. Skilled practitioners will discuss their Geoscience; Hydrogeology T59 Rheological Effects of Fluid-Rock experiences and the methods and techniques Interactions at Depth: From they use to meet the three-dimensional Gas works wastes are of the most difficult location and definition demands of the facing site remediation specialists. Forms are Experimental Constraints to practicing engineering . ORAL both solid and liquid; VOCs (volatile organic Interpretations of Field Observations compounds), SVOCs (semivolatile organic GSA Structural Geology and Tectonics T55 The Geologic and Human Landscape compounds), cyanides, metals, sulfur Division; GSA Geophysical Division. Tim of Prehistoric Mines and Quarries compounds, and various bases. Of the liquids, Wawrzyniec, University of Texas, Austin, Tex.; we face floaters, sinkers, and mixers; GSAArchaeological Geology Division. Philip Jane Selverstone, University of New Mexico, cosoluble or comiscible, or both. Lifetimes of C. LaPorta, City University of New York, The Albuquerque, N.Mex. many of the contaminants are geologic in Graduate Center, New York, N.Y. length and all of the physical and chemical Quaternary Geology/Geomorphology; Archaeological Geology; Quaternary properties react to the character of the Stratigraphy; Geophysics/Tectonophysics/ Geology/Geomorphology; Economic Geology geologic host materials. ORAL Seismology This session focuses on the broad T57 Evaluation of Sources, Aggregates, Recent advances in experimentation and field- characterization of prehistoric mine and quarry Quarries, Construction Materials, and based analyses indicate that a minor change development in relation to geologic and human Engineering Structures Using Field in fluid chemistry may result in rapid, landscapes. Contributions may touch on any and Laboratory Techniques permanent, or transient shifts between ductile aspect of the experience—e.g., plate and brittle deformation mechanisms. We GSA Engineering Geology Division; tectonic and geologic controls on mine and encourage contributions from experimental Association of Engineering Geologists. Peter P. quarry distribution and development, large- and applied petrology, microstructural studies,

CALL FOR PAPERS B-11 field-based kinematic studies, fluid-inclusion characterization from military ranges. ORAL studies of shear-zone rocks, and studies of rheologic changes associated with boiling T63 Contributions of High-Resolution fluids. ORAL and POSTER Geophysics to Understanding Neotectonics and Seismic Hazard T60 Rock Slope Stability in Surface GSA Geophysics Division. John H. McBride, and Underground Excavations University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, GSA Engineering Geology Division; Champaign, Ill.; William J. Stephenson, U.S. Association of Engineering Geologists. Geological Survey, Denver, Colo. Chester Watts, Radford University, Radford, Va.; Terry R. West, Purdue University, West Geophysics/Tectonophysics/Seismology; Lafayette, Ind. Neotectonics/Paleoseismology; Quaternary Geology/Geomorphology Engineering Geology; Structural Geology; Geophysics/Tectonophysics/Seismology With the improved availability of high-resolution geophysical techniques, detailed detection and Excavations in a rock mass are affected by 3-dimensional mapping of subsurface rock and rock-mass properties. Subsurface neotectonic deformation have become areas of investigations in rock are used to predict increased research emphasis. Seismic behavior of a rock mass when excavation reflection and other methods are being used occurs. Deterministic and probabilistic analyses successfully to reveal previously unknown are conducted, including orientation of the geologically active structures in areas of excavation and discontinuities, pore pressures, seismic hazard. This session will emphasize , external loads, and rock strength. the use of high-resolution geophysics in areas Analytical techniques and case history where detection of subsurface structure is of evaluations related to rock slope stability will societal importance. ORAL be considered for this session. ORAL T64 Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained: T61 Natural Arsenic in Groundwater: Geology and Risk Assessment in the Science, Regulation, and Health 21st Century Implications GSA Engineering Geology Division; GSA Hydrogeology Division. Stuart Rojstaczer, Association of Engineering Geologists. William Duke University, Durham, N.C.; Stephen C. Haneberg, Haneberg Geoscience, Port Peters, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich. Orchard, Wash.; Scott F. Burns, Portland State University, Portland, Ore. Geochemistry, Aqueous; Hydrogeology; Public Policy Engineering Geology; Environmental Geoscience; Public Policy This session will focus on recent advances in scientific understanding of natural arsenic in Risk is a function of the probability that an groundwater and their implications for event will occur and the consequences of its environmental regulation and human health. occurrence. How do geologists contribute to Papers dealing with arsenic geochemistry, the risk assessment in environmental remediation, hydrogeology of regions with naturally natural hazard mitigation, and resource occurring arsenic in groundwater, exploration? Is there a fundamental qualitative epidemiology of arsenic exposure, and difference between risk posed by human environmental regulations pertaining to arsenic activity versus natural processes? How do real in groundwater are encouraged. ORAL and and perceived risks differ? Interdisciplinary POSTER case histories and descriptions of novel approaches are encouraged. ORAL T62 Munitions: Sources, Fate, and Transport T65 Erosion of Non-Lithified Sediments: U.S. Army Environmental Center. Bonnie Observations and Models from Packer and Ira May, U.S. Army Environmental Millimeter to Hillslope Scales Center, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md. GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division. Jaakko K. Putkonen, University of Environmental Geoscience; Geochemistry, Washington, Seattle, Wash. Other; Geophysics/Tectonophysics/Seismology Quaternary Geology/Geomorphology; The military has a growing need to resolve Sediments, Clastic; Environmental Geoscience questions about the environmental impact of munitions in and around firing ranges. This Recent developments in digital data collection, Paul Revere Statue and Old North Church session covers source definition, including: instrumentation and proliferation of high-end As the oldest church building in Boston (1723), this is where geophysical techniques; relative contribution of personal computers warrant a broad review of the two lanterns were hung before Paul Revere embarked duds, partial detonations, and full detonations; the state of the art of field instrumentation and on his midnight ride: “One if by land, two if by sea.” explosive fate and transport modeling; and site modeling of surface erosion. A recently

B-12 CALL FOR PAPERS established cosmogenic surface exposure T69 Geobiography: Life Histories of dating has also provided a wealth of data on Geologists as a Way to Understand erosion rates. ORAL and POSTER How Science Operates T66 Coal Systems Analysis: A New GSA History of Geology Division; History of Approach to the Understanding of Earth Sciences Society. Michele L. Aldrich, Coal Formation, Coal Quality and Hatfield, Mass.; Alan E. Leviton, California Environmental Considerations, and Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, Calif. Coal as a Source Rock for History of Geology; Geoscience Education; Hydrocarbons Geoscience Information/Communication GSA Coal Geology Division; U.S. Geological Speakers will describe the life and career of a Survey. Peter D. Warwick and Robert C. Milici, geoscientist (or a group of them for collective U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Va. biography) to demonstrate how biography Coal Geology; Economic Geology; Sediments, enhances our understanding of the evolution Clastic of geological knowledge over time. ORAL and POSTER Coal geology has many disciplines, but an integrated model (such as a petroleum system) T70 Ophiolites as Problem and Solution in that defines the interaction of these the Evolution of Geological Thinking components has not been developed as a GSA History of Geology Division; GSA scientific tool. In this session, we seek to Structural Geology and Tectonics Division; identify and classify the geologic factors that International Geology Division; History of Earth control coal formation and distribution, coal Sciences Society. Yildirim Dilek, Miami quality, coal as a source rock and reservoir for University, Oxford, Ohio; Sally Newcomb, hydrocarbons, and coal as a potential reservoir retired, Silver Spring, Md. for sequestering unfriendly environmental gasses. ORAL History of Geology; Tectonics; Petrology, Igneous T67 Archaeological Geology and the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition This session provides a forum to discuss the history and development of ideas, principles, GSAArchaeological Geology Division. Vance and theories about the origin and the T. Holliday, Madison, Wisc.; Rolfe Mandel, occurrence of ophiolites and ophiolitic rocks. In University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kans.; addition, speakers will address in a historical Christopher L. Hill, Montana State University, perspective the scientific and philosophical Bozeman, Mont. questions in various disciplines of geology that Archaeological Geology; Planetary Geology; have been raised as a result of ophiolite Paleontology/Paleobotany studies over 200 years. ORAL and POSTER This session focuses on Late Quaternary T71 Prospecting for Humor in a paleoenvironmental changes connected with Geological Vein: Mining a Renewable the last glacial-interglacial transition as Resource reflected in physical (geologic) and biotic Raymond Pestrong, San Francisco State (paleontologic) records and their relationship University, San Francisco, Calif.; Richard with the archaeological record from this same Lambert, Skyline College, San Bruno, Calif. time interval. ORAL Geoscience Education; Geoscience T68 Old World Archaeology and Information/Communication; History of Quaternary Environments Geology GSAArchaeological Geology Division. Paul Geology is a serious subject full of important, Goldberg, Boston University, Boston, Mass.; occasionally earthshaking information. But with Christopher L. Hill, Montana State University, such opportunities for perceptive puns, Bozeman, Mont. meaningful metaphors, and adventurous Archaeological Geology; Planetary Geology; alliteration, who has not stooped to the base Paleontology/Paleobotany level of a good joke to drive home a salient point? We welcome presentations that explore This session will emphasize important this neglected region. Was yours the field trip connections between the archaeological from hell? Does your lecture on Love waves record from the Old World and geological leave them rolling in the aisles? Help us map and/or paleobiological records, which are used unexplored territory with a humorous to infer paleoenvironmental conditions on perspective. ORAL regional, local, and site-specific scales. ORAL

CALL FOR PAPERS B-13 T72 Geoscience Information: T75 Applications and New Opportunities T77 Increasing Student Engagement A Dynamic Odyssey in Geologic Remote Sensing in Geoscience Courses Through Geoscience Information Society. Michael GSA Geophysics Division. G. Randy Keller, Information Technology: A Component Mark Noga, Massachusetts Institute of University of Texas, El Paso, Tex.; Simon J. Hook, of Enrollment Management Technology, Cambridge, Mass.; Barbara J. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. National Association of Geoscience Teachers. DeFelice, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H. John C Butler, University of Houston, Houston, Remote Sensing/Geographic Information Tex.; Warren Huff, University of Cincinnati, Geoscience Information/Communication; System; Geophysics/Tectonophysics/ Cincinnati, Ohio. Geoscience Education; Public Policy Seismology; Geoscience Information/ Communication Geoscience Education; Geoscience The last decade has brought about major Information/Communication; Petrology, changes in the format and delivery of After more than 10 years of relative stagnation, Metamorphic geoscience information. The positions of those the last few years have experienced an who publish, collect, catalog, manage, and explosion in the quality and variety of remote Enrollment management must include preserve geoscience information have sensing data. Also, these data and the retention as an integral component. Engaging changed also. This session focuses on the software to process and analyze them are students in academics early in their college dynamic nature of geoscience information and much more available than in the past. careers is often assumed to automatically take its impact on the geoscience community. ORAL Demonstrating that this situation is a tremendous place upon enrollment. Experiences suggest opportunity for geoscientists is the focus of this that this is true if and only if the student is T73 Databases to Knowledge Bases: session. ORAL and POSTER actively engaged in the courses in which they The Informatics Revolution enroll. Multimedia and the Internet are two Association of American State Geologists. information technology components that have Walter S. Snyder, Boise State University, a potential for enhancing engagement, not just Boise, Idaho; Herman B. Zimmerman, National serving as a distribution mechanism for course Science Foundation, Arlington, Va.; M. content. ORAL Lee Allison, Kansas Geological Survey, Lawrence, Kans. T78 Academic Training of Engineering Geologists from a Practitioner’s Geoscience Information/Communication; Perspective Public Policy; Remote Sensing/Geographic GSA Engineering Geology Division; Information System Association of Engineering Geologists. Terry R. Everything digital; everything on the web. Web- West, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind.; based analysis software and tutorials will allow Duane A. Eversoll, Nebraska Geological researchers to seamlessly access data nodes Survey, Lincoln, Nebr. in a distributed geolibrary of digital geoscience Engineering Geology; Geoscience Education; data through any portal, integrate disparate Public Policy data sets, and develop models and customized products online. How are earth scientists Training of engineering geologists involving taking advantage of new opportunities? ORAL engineering geology practitioners is an important phase for learning and teaching. This T74 Geoinformatics: Extracting session will provide a forum for practitioners Knowledge from the Rock Record and academic consultants who train and teach Through Construction of Disciplinary engineering geologists to present their Databases and Information Networks Brewster spit leading to Great Brewster Island. experiences. Curriculum, specialties, preferred A.K. Sinha, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and Position of spit is controlled by an education level (B.S., M.S., or Ph.D.), field State University, Blacksburg, Va. underlying ridge of glacial till. Boston Harbor, Mass. experience, research area, and other pertinent Photo by Peter S. Rosen. items will be considered. ORAL Geoscience Information/Communication; Remote Sensing/Geographic Information T79 Innovative Approaches to System; Precambrian Geology T76 Geology in the National Parks: Undergraduate Teaching of Research, Mapping, Education, and Oceanography Geoinformatics is an emerging research Interpretation frontier, which focuses on using information National Association of Geoscience Teachers. technology tools to better understand the Bruce Heise and James F. Wood, National Jill M. Whitman, Pacific Lutheran University, dynamics of earth systems. Abstracts related Park Service, Lakewood, Colo. Tacoma, Wash.; Karen Grove, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, Calif. to all earth science disciplines are welcome, Geoscience Education; Environmental particularly those related to information Geoscience; Precambrian Geology Geoscience Education; Marine/Coastal integration. The primary objective of the Science; Public Policy session is to demonstrate the new research This session will address the role National and educational opportunities through the Parks have played and continue to play in the Many geoscience departments offer development of a fully integrated national geosciences. Presentations are invited on oceanography courses for their majors and/or geosciences information network. POSTER geologic research and mapping in parks, the for nonscience majors. Instructors face many use of parks as outdoor classrooms, and challenges, including diverse preparation of historical perspectives on past geologic students, balancing skills with content, investigations. ORAL preparing future science-literate citizens,

B-14 CALL FOR PAPERS access to innovative technology, and providing successful research collaborations with T86 What Can I Do with a Major in the hands-on experiences in non-coastal settings. undergraduate students in the geosciences. Geosciences? Advising Students in We welcome examples of creative strategies Contributions to this session should address Future Career Decisions that engage students through lecture, lab, and the elements, advantages, challenges, and/or other activities, with demonstrated evidence of outcomes of successful research National Association of Geoscience Teachers. success. ORAL collaborations with undergraduates that can Laura A. Guertin, University of Colorado, provide ideas for colleagues developing or Boulder, Colo. T80 Models and Approaches to Teaching continuing such projects. POSTER Geoscience Education; Geoscience Geology to Pre- and In-Service Information/Communication; Petrology, T83 Sigma Gamma Epsilon Student Teachers Metamorphic National Association of Geoscience Teachers. Research Poster Session From undecided majors to graduating seniors Matthew Nyman, University of New Mexico, Sigma Gamma Epsilon. Donald W. Neal, East in the geosciences, students can be heard Albuquerque, N.Mex.; Michelle Hall-Wallace, Carolina University, Greenville, N.C.; Charles J. asking the question, “What can I do with a University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz. Mankin, Oklahoma Geological Survey, major in the geosciences?” This session will Norman, Okla. Geoscience Education; Geoscience address various methods and activities of Information/Communication Sediments, Clastic; Hydrogeology; Petrology, departments to prepare and inform students Metamorphic for what is possible beyond the undergraduate The increasing importance of geology in degree. Ideas for submission may include secondary science education requires Undergraduate and graduate students are outside speakers as career mentors, the development of new content and methods encouraged to share the results of their research department Web site as a career resource, a courses. This includes development and activities by way of poster presentation. POSTER geoscience career day, and assessment of implementation of meaningful curriculum advising tools. POSTER appropriate for secondary science classes, T84 Recreating Undergraduate Majors and including field-based exercises. This session Curriculum—Approaches for a New T87 Fossil Fuel on Federal Land Century will focus on new models and approaches to GSA Coal Geology Division; U.S. Geological teaching geology to pre- and in-service National Association of Geoscience Teachers. Survey; GSA International Division. Leslie F. teachers providing a forum for active Duncan Foley, Pacific Lutheran University, Ruppert and Peter D. Warwick, U.S. discussion and exchange of ideas. ORAL Tacoma, Wash. Geological Survey, Reston, Va. T81 Strategies for Promoting Active Geoscience Education; Geoscience Coal Geology; Economic Geology; Public Policy Learning in Large Entry-Level Courses Information/Communication; Public Policy As the price of fuel increases and energy National Association of Geoscience Teachers. Many geoscience departments are shortages make headlines, politicians debate R. Heather Macdonald, College of William & implementing or considering alternative the use of federally owned energy resources. Mary, Williamsburg, Va.; Richard Yuretich, models for undergraduate majors. Some However, the development of energy University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Mass. surveys of the needs of geoscience graduates resources may result in rapid depletion and Geoscience Education stress content-specific courses; others increased public concern of environmental emphasize skills such as writing and critical degradation of public lands. This session will This session will address ways to transform the thinking. Papers are welcomed for this session review the current estimates of the fossil fuel learning environment in entry-level geoscience that discuss changes individuals or resources available on federally owned land courses with moderate to large enrollments departments have made or are considering. (including offshore resources) in the United through innovations that improve student Papers are also encouraged that will stimulate States, Canada, and Mexico learning, engage students actively during class discussion by suggesting new strategies and time, and promote critical thinking. Topics models for undergraduate preparation. ORAL might include instructional or assessment SEG Special Session strategies, inquiry-based activities at different T85 The Coming Revolution in Earth and technological levels, and investigative projects. Space Science Education Iron-Oxide(-Copper-Gold) Systems— Strategies that promote the education of National Association of Geoscience Teachers; Deposit Studies to Global Context prospective K–12 teachers are encouraged. National Earth Science Teachers Association. Sun., Nov. 4. (Morning and afternoon ORAL Edward E. Geary, Colorado State University, sessions.) Sponsored by Society of Economic Fort Collins, Colo.; Frank W. Ireton, Science T82 Models of Successful Undergraduate Geologists. This session focuses on Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, Md. Research Programsinthe Geosciences characteristics and origins of these diverse types of hydrothermal deposits, including Council of Undergraduate Research: Geoscience Education; Public Policy; Geoscience Information/Communication relationships to magmatic, tectonic, and Geosciences Division. Edward C. Hansen, climatic processes. The emphasis will be on Hope College, Holland, Mich.; Virginia L. Dynamic changes are taking place in earth Proterozoic deposits in Circum-Atlantic Peterson, Western Carolina University, and space science education at all grade terranes (including Brazil, the Baltic, and Cullowhee, N.C. levels, in all parts of the country. This session southern Africa), and Phanerozoic deposits of will highlight some of these changes, the Geoscience Education; Environmental the Cordillera, particularly in the Andes. forces behind these changes, and lay out a Geoscience; Geoscience Information/ Information: Mark D. Barton, Department of Communication preliminary “blueprint for change” that will help to guide earth and space science education Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Successful undergraduate research projects reform efforts during the next decade. ORAL AZ 85721, (520) 621-8529, fax 520-621-2672, have many forms. This session will highlight and POSTER [email protected].

CALL FOR PAPERS B-15 HOW TO SUBMIT Paleontology/Paleobotany word processor might count words differently Petrology, Experimental than this system, we suggest that you assume YOUR ABSTRACT Petrology, Igneous 300 words is the target length. Petrology, Metamorphic Abstract deadlines: July 17 for paper You may include a table or an image with your submissions; July 24 for online submissions Planetary Geology Precambrian Geology abstract, but understand that the image and table will affect the number of words allowed in Submit Electronically—It’s Easy! Public Policy Quaternary Geology/Geomorphology your abstract. Taken together, the words and GSA is using a new abstracts management Remote Sensing/Geographic images should take up no more space than system that offers many improvements over Information System would be occupied by roughly 300 words our previous system and promises to make the Sediments, Carbonates alone. entire process of submitting abstracts easier. Sediments, Clastic Here are a few advantages of the system: Check the spelling of the abstract’s text and Stratigraphy title using your own word processor. Then read • You can resume making a submission if you Structural Geology it again and make sure that it is something the lose your Internet connection before you are Tectonics whole world should see. (We won’t check or finished. Volcanology edit it for you.) • You can immediately inspect your Presentation Modes Add an extra line between paragraphs or they submission online, and you can revise your Select your preferred mode of presentation: will run together when displayed. You can do password-protected abstract as necessary oral, poster, or either (no preference). this while typing (before copying) or after you up until the published abstract submission have pasted the copy. deadline date. • Oral Mode—This is a verbal presentation before a seated audience. The normal Abstract Fee • Each author and co-author is provided (by length of an oral presentation is 12 minutes, e-mail) with a record of the abstract Once the abstract is in place, a window to plus three minutes for discussion. Projection submit payment will appear. The identification number and password. Up until equipment consists of two 35 mm the deadline date, abstracts can be nonrefundable submission fee is $15 for all projectors, one overhead projector, and two students, $25 for all others. accessed from any Internet connection, screens. Requests for video projection making collaborative authoring more and computer display will be addressed on convenient. SUBMITTING AN ABSTRACT a case-by-case basis. You may put your ON PAPER • The new system supports the submission of request for any special audiovisual equipment on the abstract form. If you do not have access to the Internet, you’ll complex abstracts that contain subscripts, need to submit an abstract on a paper form. superscripts, italic and boldface type, tables, • Poster Mode—Each poster session Paper forms for the 2001 Annual Meeting can Greek letters, and equations. presenter is provided with two horizontal, be obtained from the technical program Log On freestanding display boards approximately assistant, Heather Chotvacs, hchotvacs@ 8’ wide and 4’ high. Precise measurements geosociety.org, (303) 447-2020, ext. 115. To submit your abstract, go to will appear in the Speaker Guide, which will www.geosociety.org and click on the “Submit be posted on the GSA Web site YOU MAY PRESENT an Abstract” button. (www.geosociety.org) in September. The ONLY ONE VOLUNTEERED Scientific Categories speaker must be at the poster booth for at ABSTRACT least two of the four presentation hours. Determine if your paper would fit neatly under • Please submit only one volunteered abstract one of the topical sessions. If it doesn’t, please Papers for discipline sessions may be as speaker or poster presenter in topical submit your abstract for inclusion in the submitted in either oral or poster mode. Papers and/or discipline sessions. This helps avoid general discipline sessions. The available for topical sessions are to be submitted only speaker-scheduling conflicts and gives choices are: in the mode noted in the session description. If everyone an equal opportunity to be heard. Multiple submissions as speaker- Archaeological Geology a topical abstract is submitted in the incorrect presenter will result in rejection of all Coal Geology mode, the abstract will be transferred abstracts. Economic Geology automatically to a discipline session. Engineering Geology Title and Keywords • This limitation does not apply to, nor does it Environmental Geoscience include, invited contributions to keynote Geochemistry, Aqueous Pick a title for your paper, and select up to symposia or topical sessions. Geochemistry, Organic five keywords. Geochemistry, Other Authors JOINT TECHNICAL PROGRAM Geomicrobiology COMMITTEE (JTPC) WILL FINALIZE Have available the name and contact Geophysics/Tectonophysics/Seismology PROGRAM IN MID-AUGUST Geoscience Education information for all of the authors. Please Geoscience Information/Communication include their phone numbers and e-mail The JTPC selects abstracts and determines History of Geology addresses. the final session schedule. Speakers will be Hydrogeology notified in early September. The JTPC includes Marine/Coastal Science Word Limit and Format representatives from those GSA Associated Mineralogy/ Keep abstracts to 300 words or fewer. The Societies and Divisions participating in the Neotectonics/Paleoseismology online abstract management system will reject technical program. The GSA Council approved Paleoclimatology/Paleoceanography abstracts that exceed 320 words. Since your the JTPC technical program chairs.

B-16 CALL FOR PAPERS FIELD TRIPS Division and GSA Structural Geology and Quaternary Environments and History of Tectonics Division. Timothy T. Allen, Dept. of Boston Harbor, Massachusetts The northern Appalachians provide a Geology, Keene State College, Keene, NH Sun., Nov. 4. Cosponsored by GSA spectacular laboratory for the study of ancient 03435-2001, (603) 358-2571, fax 603-358- Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology tectonic processes, and several field trips will 2257, [email protected]; John W. Creasy; Division. Patrick Colgan, Dept. of Geology, focus on various aspects of Appalachian Thompson Davis; J. Dykstra Eusden; Brian K. Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, orogenesis. Other trips will focus on the Fowler; Woodrow B. Thompson. Max.: 39. (617) 373-4381, fax 617-373-4378, pcolgan@ dynamic New England coastline and recent Cost: $250. lynx.neu.edu; Peter Rosen. Max.: 40. Cost: $70. attempts to decipher the complex history of The Science Behind A Civil Action Quaternary sea level change. Trips in the N-Y-F Pegmatites in the Avalon urban setting of the greater Boston area will Sat., Nov. 3. Cosponsored by GSA Terrane of Southeastern New England provide glimpses into the numerous challenges Hydrogeology Division. Scott Bair, Dept. of Sun., Nov. 4. Carl Francis, Dept. of Earth & associated with groundwater contamination Geological Sciences, The Ohio State and engineering geology. Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, University, Columbus, OH 43210, (614) 292- Cambridge, MA 02138-2902, (617) 495-4758, Trip destinations range from the immediate 0069, fax 614-292-7688, [email protected]; fax 617-495-8839, [email protected]; Boston area to the rugged coast of Maine, the Maura Metheny; Terry Lahm; Jack Guswa; Michael Wise. Max.: 22. Cost: $70. White of New Hampshire to the John Drobinski; Chuck Myette; Kip Solomon. Berkshires of western Massachusetts, and Max.: 30. Cost: $80. Concurrent with the Meeting many points in between. Most trips start and The Founders of American Geology: A Visit Aspects of the Urban Geology of Beacon end in Boston. Air travel plans that include a to their Tombs and Favorite Exposures Hill and Vicinity, Boston, Massachusetts: Saturday night stay-over can substantially In Memory of James V. O’Connor—A offset field trip costs. Please note: The weather Sat. and Sun., Nov. 3–4. Cosponsored by GSA Walking Tour. History of Geology Division. Gerald M. in early November may be a factor in trips in Sun., Nov. 4. Cosponsored by GSA History of New England. Friedman, Brooklyn College and Graduate Center, CUNY, P.O. Box 746,Troy, NY, 12181- Geology Division, GSA Engineering Geology The following list is tentative and subject to 0746, (518) 273-3247, fax 518-273-3249, Division, and National Association of change. Further details will be given when [email protected]. Max.: 20. Cost: $190. Geoscience Teachers. James W. Skehan, registration for the meeting begins in June. For Dept. of Geology & Geophysics, Boston more information, contact the trip leader or the Geological, Geochemical, and College, 140 Commonwealth Ave., Chestnut 2001 field trip co-chairs Dave West, Dept. of Environmental Aspects of Metamorphosed Hill, MA 02467-3809, (617) 552-8312, fax 617- Geology, Earlham College, Richmond, IN Black Shales in Maine 552-2462, [email protected]. Max.: 20. Cost: $20. 47374, (765) 983-1231, fax 765-983-1497, Sat. and Sun., Nov. 3–4. Charles V. Guidotti, Cobblestones, Puddingstone, and More: [email protected], and Dick Bailey, Dept. of Dept. of Geological Sciences, University of Boston’s Use of Stone as an Essential Geology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA Maine, Orono, ME 04469-5790, (207) 581- Urban Element—A Walking Tour 02115, (617) 373-3181, fax 617-373-4378, 2153; fax 207-581-2202, guidotti@maine. Tues., Nov. 6. Dorothy Richter, Hager-Richter [email protected]. maine.edu; Mark Van Baalen. Max.: 30. Geoscience, Inc., 8 Industrial Way, Ste. D-10, Cost: $190. Premeeting Trips Salem, NH 03079, (603) 893-9944, fax 603- Quaternary Sea-level Change and Coastal Avalonian through Alleghanian 893-8313, [email protected]; Gene Evolution in Eastern Maine Tectonism in Southeastern New England Simmons. Max.: 20. Cost: $20. Thur.–Sun., Nov. 1–4. Cosponsored by GSA Sun., Nov. 4. Cosponsored by GSA Structural Petrology and Field Relations Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Geology and Tectonics Division. Daniel Murray, at Pine Hill, Medford, Massachusetts Division. Joseph T. Kelley, Dept. of Geological Dept. of Geosciences, University of Rhode Tues., Nov. 6. Martin E. Ross, Dept. of Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, ME Island, Kingston, RI 02881, (401) 874-2197, Geology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 04469-5790, (207) 581-2152, fax 207-581- fax 401-874-2190, [email protected]; Rachel 02115, (617) 373-3176, fax 617-373-4378, 2202, [email protected]; Dan Belknap; Burks; Sharon Mosher; Nasir Hamidzada. [email protected]. Max.: 40. Cost: $40. Duncan FitzGerald; Jon Boothroyd. Max.: 45. Max.: 40. Cost: $70. Cost: $325. Begins in Bangor, Maine; ends in Engineering Geology of the Big Dig Project Boston. The Science Behind A Civil Action (Boston Central Artery Project) Rare Element Granitic Pegmatites of Sun., Nov. 4. See description for Sat., Nov. 3, trip. Wed., Nov. 7. Cosponsored by GSA Northern New England and Geochemistry of the Engineering Geology Division. Dan Bobrow, Parsons Brinckerhoff, 63 Walnut Court, Fri. and Sat., Nov. 2–3. Carl Francis, Harvard Shelburne Falls Arc and the Taconian Orogeny in Western New England Stoughton, MA 02072-4159, (617) 951-6228, Mineralogical Museum, 24 Oxford St., fax 617- 951-0897, [email protected]; Cambridge, MA 02138, (617) 495-4758, fax Sun., Nov. 4. Cosponsored by GSA Structural Charles Daugherty. Max.: 35. Cost: $80. 617-495-8839, [email protected]. Geology and Tectonics Division. Paul Max.: 21. Cost: $230. Karabinos, Dept. of Geosciences, Williams Geology of East Point, Nahant, Massachusetts The Notches: Bedrock and Surficial College, Williamstown, MA 01267, (413) 597- Geology of New Hampshire’s White 2079, fax 413-597-4116, paul.m.karabinos@ Wed., Nov. 7. Martin E. Ross, Dept. of Mountains williams.edu; J. Christopher Hepburn. Max.: 28. Geology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA Cost: $70. 02115, (617) 373-3176, fax 617-373-4378, Fri.–Sun., Nov. 2–4. Cosponsored by GSA [email protected]; Richard H. Bailey. Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Max.: 40. Cost: $40.

CALL FOR PAPERS B-17 Engineering geology of the Big Dig project (Boston Central Artery Project)

MetroWest Water Supply Tunnel Project Society of Economic Fri., Nov. 9. Cosponsored by GSA Engineering Geologists Field Trips Geology Division. Mario Carnevale, Hager Zinc and Iron Deposits of the Adirondack Geology, Groundwater Contamination, Geoscience Inc., 174 Lexington St., Waltham, Mountains and New Jersey Highlands MA 02452-4644, (781) 893-9700, fax 781-893- and Groundwater Remediation at the Tues.–Sat., Oct. 30–Nov. 3. Sponsored by 8465, [email protected]; Massachusetts Military Reservation Society of Economic Geologists. John F. Slack, Jutta Hager. Max.: 50. Cost: $65. (MMR), Cape Cod U.S. Geological Survey, MS 954, Reston, VA Wed., Nov. 7. Rudolph Hon, Dept. of Geology Recent Developments in the Study of the 20192, (703) 648-6337, fax 703- 648-6383, & Geophysics, Boston College, 140 Neoproterozoic Boston Bay Group [email protected]; Craig A. Johnson, U.S. Geological Survey, MS 963, Denver, CO Commonwealth Ave., Chestnut Hill, MA 02467- Fri., Nov. 9. Richard H. Bailey, Dept. of 3809, (617) 552-3640, fax 617-552-2462, 80225, (303) 236-7935, fax 303-236-4930, Geology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA [email protected]; Michael P. Foose, U.S. [email protected]; Francis Fedele; Martin Acker; 02115, (617) 373-3176, fax 617-373-4378, Peter Dillon. Max.: 24. Cost: $55. Geological Survey, MS 954, Reston, VA [email protected]; Margaret D. 20192, (703) 648-6333, fax 703-648-6383, Postmeeting Trips Thompson; Benjamin H. Bland. Max.: 40. [email protected]. James M. McLelland, Cost: $50. Deformation, Metamorphism, Dept. of Geology, Colgate University, Hamilton, and Granite Assent in Western Maine Metamorphism of a Fold-Thrust Belt in the NY 13346, (315) 824-7202, fax 315-824-7831, Hinterland of the Alleghanian Orogen in [email protected]. Begins and ends in Thur.–Sun., Nov. 8–11. Cosponsored by GSA Southern New England Boston. Includes underground visits to the Structural Geology and Tectonics Division. Balmat mine (New York) and the Sterling Hill Gary Solar, Dept. of Earth Sciences, State Fri. and Sat., Nov. 9–10. Cosponsored by GSA mine (New Jersey). Max.: 42. Cost: $TBD. University of New York, College at Buffalo, Structural Geology & Tectonics Division. Includes transportation, all meals, accommo- Buffalo, NY 14222, (716) 878-4900, Robert P. Wintsch, Dept. of Geological dations (double occupancy), and guidebook. [email protected]; Mike Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN Brown; Paul Tomascak. Max.: 33. Cost: $350. 47405, (812) 855-4018, fax 812-855-7899, Environmental Geochemistry and Mining [email protected]; Michael J. Kunk; John History of Massive Sulfide Deposits in the Geology of Mount Monadnock, N. Aleinikoff. Max.: 30. Cost: $170. Vermont Copper Belt New Hampshire The Taconic Questions: Thur.–Sat., Nov. 8–10. Sponsored by Society Fri., Nov. 9. Cosponsored by GSA Structural Revisiting the Scenes of the Great of Economic Geologists. Jane M. Geology and Tectonics Division. Peter American Controversies Hammarstrom, U.S. Geological Survey, MS Thompson, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University 954, Reston, VA 20192, (703) 648-6165, fax of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, (603) Fri. and Sat., Nov. 9–10. Cosponsored by GSA 703-648-6383, [email protected]; Robert 862-2649, fax 603-862-2649, pjt3@hypatia. History of Geology Division. Paul Washington, R. Seal II, U.S. Geological Survey, MS 954, unh.edu. Max.: 25. Cost: $55. Dept. of Geosciences, University of Louisiana, Reston, VA 20192, (703) 648-6290, fax 703- Monroe, LA 71209, (318) 342-1898, Geology and Water Supply Development at 648-6383, [email protected]. Begins and ends [email protected], Max.: 40. Cost: $170. the Massachusetts Military Reservation in Boston. Includes surface visits to the (MMR), Cape Cod Prehistoric Bedrock Quarries Elizabeth and Ely mines (Vermont). Max.: 30. of the Central Appalachians Cost: $TBD. Includes transportation, all meals, Fri., Nov. 9. Peter Dillon, Foster Wheeler accommodations (double occupancy), and Environmental Corporation, 470 Atlantic Ave., Fri.–Sun., Nov. 9–11. Philip La Porta, La Porta guidebook. Boston, MA 02210, (508) 563-7792, fax 508- & Associates, 116 Bellvale Lakes Rd., 563-7844, [email protected]; Rudolph Hon; Warwick, NY 10990, (845) 986-7733, fax 845- Boyd Allen; Francis Fedele; Kent Gonser. 988-9988, [email protected], Max.: 20. Max.: 24. Cost: $55. Cost: $280.

B-18 CALL FOR PAPERS COURSES, Geology Division. David M. Abbott Jr., Brachiopods consultant, Denver; John W. Williams, San WORKSHOPS, Jose State University. Fee: $200, students $180. Sun., Nov. 4. Sponsored by Paleontological C.E.U. 0.4. Society. Information: Sandy Carlson, Geology AND FORUM Dept., University of California, Davis, CA Tectonics and Topography: 95616, (916) 752-0350, fax 916-752-0951, GSA-Sponsored Short Courses Crustal Deformation, [email protected]; Michael Sandy, Preregistration deadline: September 28 Surficial Processes, and Landforms Dept. of Geology, University of Dayton, OH Registration information and course 45469-2364, (937) 229-3432, fax 937-229- Sun., Nov. 4. Cosponsored by GSA Structural 2889, [email protected]. descriptions will be published in the June issue Geology and Tectonics Division. Dorothy of GSA Today. For additional information, Merritts, Franklin and Marshall College; Roland Technical Writing for Results contact Edna Collis, Meetings Department, Burgmann, University of California at Berkeley. GSA headquarters, [email protected], or Fee: $275, students $255. C.E.U. 0.8. Sun., Nov. 4. Sponsored by National Ground see GSA’s Web site, www.geosociety.org. Water Association (NGWA). Information: Other Courses and Workshops NGWA, 601 Dempsey Road, Westerville, OH Application of Thermochronometry 43081, (800) 551-7379, fax 614-898-7786. to Tectonics Registration and information can be obtained Visit NGWA’s home page, www.ngwa.org. from the contact person listed for each course. Sat. and Sun., Nov. 3–4. Cosponsored by GSA Practical Application of XRF Techniques to Sequence Stratigraphy Structural Geology and Tectonics Division. T. the Analysis of Geological Materials Mark Harrison, Marty Grove, and Oscar M. for Graduate Students Mon., Nov. 5. Sponsored by Mineralogical Lovera, University of California at Los Angeles; Sat. and Sun., Nov. 3–4. Cosponsored by Society of America (MSA). Information: MSA Peter K. Zeitler, Lehigh University. Fee: $540, British Petroleum (BP) and ExxonMobil Business Office, 1015 18th St. NW, Ste. 601, students $520. C.E.U. 1.6. Exploration Company. Information: Art Washington, D.C. 20036-5212, (202) 775- Donovan, BP Upstream Technology Group, Micromorphology of Glacigenic Sediments 4344, fax 202-775-0018, business@ (281) 366-5198, [email protected]; Morgan minsocam.org, or visit the MSA Web site, Sat. and Sun., Nov. 3–4. Cosponsored by GSA Sullivan, ExxonMobil Upstream Research www.minsocam.org. Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Company, (713) 431-7184, Division. John Menzies, Brock University; Jaap [email protected]. Geology, Public Lands, and You J.M. van der Meer, Queen Mary College, University of London; James Rose, Royal Stable Isotope Geochemistry Date to be determined. Cosponsored by the Institute for Earth Science and the Holloway, University of London. Fee: $420, Sat. and Sun., Nov. 3–4. Sponsored by Environment, the Bureau of Land students $400. C.E.U. 1.6. Mineralogical Society of America (MSA). Management, the National Park Service, and Information: MSA Business Office, 1015 18th Applications of Environmental Isotopes to the USDA Forest Service. Information: Katie St. NW, Ste. 601, Washington, D.C. 20036- Watershed Hydrology and Biogeochemistry KellerLynn, (303) 447-2020, ext.194, 5212, (202) 775-4344, fax 202-775-0018, [email protected]. Learn the Sun., Nov. 4. Cosponsored by GSA [email protected]; or visit the MSA differences among federal land management Hydrogeology Division. Carol Kendall and Web site, www.minsocam.org. Thomas Bullen, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo agencies and their missions. Learn what YOU Park. Fee: $330, students $310. C.E.U. 0.8. Management and Leadership Skills for Geoscience Department Chairs and Institute Directors Sun., Nov. 4. Cosponsored by National Association of Geoscience Teachers. Lee J. Suttner, Indiana University; Sheila Moore, Training Concepts, Chattanooga, Tenn. Fee: $260, students $240. C.E.U. 0.8. Mobilization of Metals from Fuels: Impacts to the Environment and Human Health Sun., Nov. 4. (Half-day, afternoon course.) Cosponsored by GSA Coal Geology Division. Robert B. Finkelman, Allan Kolker, and Leslie Ruppert, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston. Fee: $190, students $170. C.E.U. 0.4. Practical Geoscience Ethics: Elements, Examples, and Education Sun., Nov. 4. (Half-day, afternoon course.) Cosponsored by American Institute of Cliff of late Wisconsinian till in an eroded drumlin. Professional Geologists and GSA Engineering Peddocks Island, Boston Harbor, Mass. Photo by Peter S. Rosen.

CALL FOR PAPERS B-19 need to know about gaining access to your This workshop constitutes a no-holds-barred Laboratory, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY special areas of geologic interest in national review of what it takes to win an academic job 13244-1070, (315) 443-3607, disiegel@ parks, national forests, and Bureau of Land and keep it. Segments in the course include mailbox.syr.edu. Management lands. Get pointers on how to: maximize the chances of winning an conducting research and getting permits on academic job, from the application process to Panel Discussion different types of public lands. Take a crash the interview; write a publishable scientific Tenure and Promotion: course in National Environmental Policy Act paper or acceptable scientific proposal; and Letting the Cat Out of the Bag (public input to agency decisions). Learn how teach effectively at undergraduate and YOU can influence management of public graduate levels. Sun., Nov. 4, 11 a.m.–1 p.m. lands and resources. Sponsored by Association for Women Most of all, the workshop provides critical Geoscientists. Forum mentoring for both male and female graduate students and current junior faculty on how to Limit: 100. No Fee; includes lunch. Digital Forum maximize chances of earning tenure and Preregistration required. For information and Wed., Nov. 7. Sponsored by Geoscience promotion once they enter academia. registration: Mary Anne Holmes, 214 Bessey Information Society. Information: Adonna Hall, Geosciences Dept., University of Fleming, James A. Michener Library, University The concepts and materials provided in this Nebraska—Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588-0340, of Northern Colorado, Greeley CO 80639, course are largely derived from a series of very (402) 472-5211, fax 402-472-4917, (970) 351-1530, fax 970-351-2963, popular lectures Donald I. Siegel prepared for [email protected], or visit the AWG Web [email protected]. the Syracuse University Future Professorate site, www.awg.org. Program. The mentoring that Siegel and Special Workshop O’Connell will provide will also be very useful Surviving Academia: From Getting the Job to M.S. students and Ph.D. students moving to Winning Tenure into government or industry employment. The concepts for success are the same. Sun., Nov. 4, 8 a.m.–5 p.m. Sponsored by Association for Women Geoscientists. Faculty: Limit: 50. Fee: $20; includes course manual Donald I. Siegel, Syracuse University; and lunch. Preregistration required. For Suzanne O’Connell, Trinity College and information and registration: Donald I. Siegel, Wesleyan University. Dept. of Earth Sciences, 307 Heroy Geology

Nominations being taken for the 2001 Michel T. Halbouty Distinguished Lecturer GSA K–16 Education Program

The GSA Foundation is pleased to announce the Join us in Boston for exciting and informative workshops for K–12 establishment of the Michel T. Halbouty Distinguished educators, junior college instructors, college professors, pre- Lecturer Fund, which provides an honorarium for a service instructors and graduate students. A full slate of workshops Halbouty Distinguished Lecturer at GSA annual meetings. is scheduled for Saturday and Sunday. The wide range of topics The fund was established to select a top lecturer in broad, includes plate tectonics, planetary geology, use of new technology, overarching topics of natural resources (water, land, and pedagogy. Check the June issue of GSA Today for complete energy, and minerals). Abstracts of the usual sorts, such workshop listings. Preregistration is recommended to assure your as ones concerning a particular ore deposit model, a spot in these popular sessions. local water quality problem, or the discovery of a new gas field may not be appropriate. The subject needs to be a Graduate-level recertification credits from the Colorado School of broad one. Mines will be offered for workshop participation and all technical sessions, based on contact hours and written summaries of The GSA Joint Technical Program Committee and activities. Details will be available on-site at the workshops. Contact Annual Program Committee invite any GSA member and Diana Stordeur for more information at [email protected]. especially the topical session convenors in the resources area to nominate a lecturer for the 2001 GSA Annual Meeting in Boston. Nominations for the Michel T. Halbouty Distinguished Lecturer are currently being collected. The form is located at www.geosociety.org/meetings/2001/ halboutyform.htm. Deadline for nominations is May 1, 2001. The winner of this award will be notified by the end of May 2001.

B-20 CALL FOR PAPERS Registration

Preregistration Deadline: Friday, September 28, 2001 register early. If you are not a member and would like registration forms and further information, contact GSA Member Services, Cancellation Deadline: Friday, October 5, 2001 [email protected]. You’ll be able to register online beginning in June at One-day registration will be available on-site Sunday through www.geosociety.org. Registration forms and information will also be Thursday. Guest and spouse registrations do not include technical available in the June issue of GSA Today. session access. Make plans now to take advantage of the June registration Meeting registration fees have not been established as we go to print. opportunity. Registration is required for events, which will fill quickly. Plus, you’ll save a considerable amount on registration fees if you

Not a GSA Member? NOW is a Great Time to Join You’ll save a substantial amount on your Annual Meeting registration by becoming a GSA member—more than enough to cover the cost of membership dues. Take a look at the numbers (example uses fees from the 2000 Annual Meeting). Professional Nonmember preregistration meeting fee: ...... $335.00 Professional Member preregistration meeting fee: ...... $260.00 Difference: ...... $ 75.00 Dues and application fee, GSA Professional Membership: ...... $ 50.00 You come out ahead by: ...... $ 25.00! Not convinced? If you pay the nonmember registration rate for the meeting, you can sign up for a free membership for 2002 when you get to Boston. It’s your choice! For more information, please contact Member Services at GSA headquarters, [email protected], 888-443-4472, or (303) 447-2020, ext. 774.

Dave Stephenson to Serve as Acting Executive Director

Stephenson brings wide experience in the geosciences to GSA and is very familiar with GSA programs and initiatives. Dave Stephenson has He will be working closely with GSA’s officers and staff agreed to serve as acting exe- during this time of transition. About his new role, cutive director for GSA until Stephenson says, “As acting executive director, my greatest September while a search is conducted for a new executive service to the Society would be as a focal point for director. Stephenson was president of GSA in 1995 and pres- communication between headquarters staff, Executive ident of the American Geological Institute in 1999. He has Committee members, Council members, Section and always been a strong supporter of GSA. Stephenson is Division officers, plus the membership at large. In that currently vice-president and Wyoming office manager of S.S. capacity, until a permanent executive director can be Papadopulos & Associates, Inc. He previously ran his own installed, I hope to be an effective resource, not merely a consulting firm, South Pass Resources, Inc. Stephenson also placeholder.” Stephenson is an excellent person to provide was a professor of hydrogeology at the University of GSA leadership as an acting executive director; we are very Wisconsin at Madison for 14 years. pleased that he has accepted this position.

CALL FOR PAPERS B-21 Students: Start Planning Now to Planning for Your Future… Attend Boston 2001, A Geo-Odyssey …in Academia The Graduate School Information Forum lets undergraduate students GSA Annual Meetings are a great deal for students. You’ll enjoy full planning to obtain advanced degrees meet one-on-one with access to every part of the meeting at a discounted rate. Hear about the representatives from graduate schools around the country. An informal latest research conducted by scientists from all over the country and the setting provides a unique venue for discussing interests and exploring world. Make contacts in a friendly atmosphere, explore options for your programs. A list of participating schools will appear on GSA’s Web site at future, and meet your fellow students and future colleagues. www.geosociety.org and in future issues of GSA Today. But wait! There’s more! …in the Business World Travel Grants Help Get You There GSA’s Employment Interview Service is the most extensive program of The GSA Foundation has awarded $4,500 in grants to each of the six its type. At the Summit 2000 meeting in Reno, 52 employers used the GSA Sections. The money, when combined with equal funds from the service during the process of filling more than 120 positions. GSA staff Sections, is used to help GSA undergraduate Student Associates and scheduled 497 interviews with those employers who rented interview graduate Student Members travel to GSA meetings. For information and booth space; other employers utilized the message exchange service to deadlines, contact your GSA Section secretary. connect with applicants. More services include bulletin boards with job and opportunity postings, and informal seating available for spur of the Cordilleran: Bruce A. Blackerby, moment interviews or discussions. Another notable aspect of the (559) 278-2955, [email protected] program is the chance to participate in individual or small-group Rocky : Kenneth E. Kolm, discussions with volunteers who provide personalized help with resume (303) 273-3932, [email protected] writing and offer insights on job searches and trends in different areas of the geoscience job market. North-Central: Robert F. Diffendal Jr., (402) 472-7546, [email protected] For more information, contact [email protected], or look for information and forms on the GSA Web site, www.geosociety.org. Northeastern: Stephen Pollock, Applicants should plan to have employment service registration (207) 780-5380, [email protected] materials to GSA headquarters by September 15, 2001, to make full use of the interview service. South-Central: Elizabeth Y. Anthony, (915) 747-5483, [email protected] …or in Government Southeastern: Donald W. Neal, The Geology in Government Mentor Program for undergraduate and (252) 328-4392, [email protected] graduate students features a panel discussion (with interaction from the audience) of representatives from four governmental agencies. Topics The Student Assistant include: current and anticipated future roles for geoscientists within their Program Helps Pay the Bills particular government segment; discussion of interesting or highly When you work as a student assistant during the meeting, you can get visible geoscience projects currently in process; and current and future reimbursed for your registration fees and even earn a free Abstracts with job opportunities within their agency. It’s free to students and lunch is Programs book. Look for more information about the Student Assistant provided. Due to limited seating, registration will be required. Date and Program in upcoming issues of GSA Today or call 1-800-472-1988, location to be announced. ext. 184. The President’s Student Breakfast Fuels Day One Event Planners: Take Note! Of all the events geared toward students at the Annual Meeting, the Have you been corralled, convinced, or coerced into GSA President’s Student Breakfast is among the most popular. organizing a business meeting, social event, or alumni reception Traditionally held on Monday morning, this complimentary buffet at the GSAAnnual Meeting in Boston? We’d like to help you! To breakfast is sponsored by ExxonMobil and hosted by GSA. It’s a chance get the arrangements under way, complete the following steps: to meet students from around the world and to chat with GSA officers while they serve you orange juice and coffee. More than 600 students Start now. attended last year—be sure to join us in Boston! Step 1. Step 2. Go to www.geosociety.org.

Step 3. Click on “Meetings,” and look for the Space Request Form.

Step 4. Choose one: Complete the form online or download the pdf version, print it out, and fax it to GSA at 303-447-0648.

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B-22 CALL FOR PAPERS Join the Crowd

Meet the Next Generation of Graduate Students at GSA’s Graduate School Information Forum Here’s a chance for representatives from your school to meet face to face with prospective students in the relaxed, informal setting of the Exhibit Hall at the Boston meeting. We’ll promote your school in the 2001 Annual Meeting technical program, published in the October issue of GSA Today, and in the on-site meeting program, distributed to every meeting at the GSA Exhibit Hall attendee. You’ll have a choice of holding your forum for all or any combination of days the Exhibit Hall is open (from one Have you got a product to sell? A school or program to promote? A new service to unveil? The day to all three days). GSA Annual Meeting is a great place to showcase what your business or organization offers the geoscience community. The Exhibit Hall opens with a popular welcoming party on Sunday If your school is interested in evening and the crowds keep visiting the hall all meeting long. participating, contact Brenda Martinez, Exhibit Sales Coordinator, GSA Join more than 150 organizations offering the latest in scientific instrumentation; field supplies Headquarters, (303) 447-2020, ext. 138, and gear; geological publications; laboratory services; gems and minerals; and information on [email protected]. geoscience associations and earth science programs at various institutions. You can find out more about our 2001 exhibitors by visiting www.geosociety.org/meetings/2001/exhibits.htm. Boston is one of GSA’s most popular meeting venues. You can look forward to reaching an estimated 7,000+ attendees, including influential scientists and key decision-makers from the geoscience community. Develop new customers, increase your sales, and educate current and Employers: potential customers on your products and services. Let the GSA We are projected to sell out, so reserve space now by contacting Brenda Martinez, Exhibit Sales Employment Service Coordinator: GSA Headquarters, (303) 447-2020, ext. 138, [email protected]. Go to our Web site, www.geosociety.org, and download the Boston Prospectus with application, which Bring Applicants to outlines the benefits and procedures for applying for booth space. You! Reap the benefits of GSA’s database of job-seeking geoscientists by signing up to use the GSA Employment Service. You specify the educational and professional Public Policy and Beyond experience requirements and the types Interested in the process seminars in conjunction with the Bureau of of expertise your applicants should have, behind the politics? Land Management, the National Park and we’ll take it from there. Plus, when Service, and the USDA Forest Service on a you rent interview space at the GSA Ever wonder who puts the variety of public policy, funding, and Annual Meeting, our staff will schedule planning into the policy? resource planning topics. Plus, Rachel interviews for you, and you’ll have access Want to find out how to get a Sours-Page, the 2000–2001 GSA–USGS to a message center, photocopying permit to access public lands? Congressional Science Fellow will give her services, and more. For information and final report on earth science at work in our costs, contact Nancy Williams, There’s no better place to get the scoop nation’s capital. [email protected], or look for than Boston, an historic hotbed of political information and forms on the GSA Web Be sure to put aside some time in your action. site, www.geosociety.org. annual meeting schedule for these valuable The Institute for Earth Science and the events. Look for complete information in the Environment will hold workshops and June issue of GSA Today.

CALL FOR PAPERS B-23 Wanted: GSA Needs Technical Program Chair for the 2003 GSA Annual Meeting Wanted: Help for The search is on for the Technical Program Hot Topics Chair for the 2002 Chair for the 2003 GSA Annual Meeting in GSA Annual Meeting in Denver Seattle, Washington. If you are interested in serving as chair, or if you know someone The Annual Program Committee is Annual who would be effective in this capacity, visit seeking a Hot Topics Chair for the 2002 GSA’s Web site at www.geosociety.org Annual Meeting in Denver. The Hot /meetings/chairnom.htm or contact the Topics Chair arranges for spirited Meetings GSA Meetings Department for a debates or controversial, lively nomination form at (303) 447-2020, ext. discussions during lunchtimes at the 190. Nominations are due July 15, 2001. annual meeting. The Technical Program Chair has the final If you or someone you know is responsibility for the entire technical interested in the latest issues facing the program. Review and acceptance of keynote geosciences, this is a great opportunity and topical session proposals happens to get involved and help shape the Hot during January and February 2003, and Topics schedule for 2002. If you are scheduling of all sessions, in conjunction interested in serving, or if you know with Joint Technical Program Committee someone you think would be an (JTPC) representatives, occurs in July effective, energetic Hot Topics chair, through August of 2003. The 2003 chair will visit GSA’s Web site at www.geosociety. serve on the Annual Program Committee org/meetings/chairnom.htm or contact from 2002 to 2004. This committee meets the GSA Meetings Department at twice a year, usually in March and again (303) 447-2020, ext. 190, for a in August. nomination form. Nominations are The Technical Program Chair must be a due July 15, 2001. GSA member with a broad perspective on the geological sciences, and must be efficient, organized, fair-minded, flexible, and committed to organizing a dynamic Visit GSA’s Web site at meeting. Experience in scheduling a technical program (such as membership on www.geosociety.org/meetings/chairnom.htm the JTCP in the past five years) is helpful but or contact the GSA Meetings Department at (303) 447-2020, ext. not required. 190, for a nomination form. Nominations are due July 15, 2001.

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