Call for Papers November 2–5, 2003 Greetings! Washington State Multifaceted Seattle provides a fascinating arena for the GSA Annual Meeting. Seattle Convention & Trade is an amazing place—aesthetically, culturally, and geologically. In few other North American cities do Holocene lahars lap up against the downtown shopping district, Center, Seattle active surface faults bisect half-billion-dollar sports stadiums, glacial fjords float ten thousand commuters daily to their climate-controlled office buildings, and recent landslides the size of small New England townships provide home to million-dollar ANNUAL MEETING SPONSOR views for software executives and coffee moguls. If you’ve never been to Seattle, come to experience a place, for better or worse, like none other. If you know the city like the back of your hand, revisit old friends and resample the local beverages. For the Title Sponsor of the 2003 GSA Annual Meeting rest of you, enjoy the continuing evolution of one of the most unique cities, and set- tings, of our continent. 2003 ANNUAL MEETING HOST Geoscience Horizons: Seattle 2003 promises to be an exciting meeting. There’s a great set of field trips and workshops, technical sessions, and the opportunity to University of Washington make or renew collegial connections. The meeting has a broad range of sessions that both encompass and expand the boundaries of traditional “geologic” studies. So, ex- amine the session titles, find your niche, and offer your contribution by submitting 2003 ANNUAL MEETING an abstract. If you don’t find your topic area, please submit to one of the general ses- sions—your session-mates may well be the most eclectic, creative group at the meet- LOCAL COMMITTEE ing. Come to Seattle and experience the beautiful “Emerald City.” General Chair Derek Booth Derek Booth General Chair, Seattle Local Committee University of Washington (206) 543-7923 [email protected] IMPORTANT DATES, EVENTS, & DEADLINES Technical Program Chair Registration Opens: June 2 Dave Bush State University of West Georgia Abstracts Deadline: July 15 (770) 836-4597 Preregistration Deadline: September 26 [email protected] Registration Cancellation Deadline: October 3 Field Trip Chair Premeeting Field Trips: Sun.–Sat., Oct. 26–Nov. 1 Terry Swanson Short Courses & Workshops: Sat., Nov. 1 University of Washington (206) 543-1923 K–16 Workshops: Sat.–Sun., Nov. 1–2 [email protected] Presidential Address & Awards Ceremony: Sun., Nov. 2, 4–6 p.m. Welcoming Party & Exhibits Opening: Sun., Nov. 2, 6–8 p.m. Hot Topics Chair Technical Program: Sun.–Wed., Nov. 2–5 Fred Schwab Pardee Keynote Symposia: Sun., Nov. 2, 8 a.m.–noon Washington & Lee University (540) 463-8870 Mon.–Wed., Nov. 3–5, 8 a.m.–noon, & 1:30–5:30 p.m. [email protected] Private Alumni Receptions: Mon., Nov. 3, 5:30 p.m.–1 a.m. Group Alumni Party: Mon., Nov. 3, 7–9:30 p.m. K–16 Education Chair Exhibits Open: Mon.–Tue., Nov. 3–4, 9:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. Elizabeth Nesbitt Exhibits Close: NEW! Wed., Nov. 5, 2 p.m. University of Washington Hot Topics: Mon.–Wed., Nov. 3–5, over lunchtime (206) 543-5949 [email protected] Postmeeting Field Trips: Wed.–Sat., Nov. 5–8 GSA TODAY, APRIL/MAY 2003 5 Associated Societies American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists ■ American Institute of Professional Geologists Association for Women Geologists ■ Association of American State Geologists ■ Association of Earth Science Editors Association of Engineering Geologists ■ Association of Geoscientists for International Development Council on Undergraduate Research, Geosciences Division ■ Cushman Foundation Environmental & Engineering Geophysical Society Geochemical Society ■ Geoscience Information Society ■ History of the Earth Sciences Society International Association of Hydrogeologists ■ Mineralogical Society of America National Association for Black Geologists and Geophysicists National Association of Geoscience Teachers ■ National Earth Science Teachers Association National Ground Water Association ■ Paleontological Research Institution ■ Paleontological Society Sigma Gamma Epsilon Society for Sedimentary Geology ■ Society of Economic Geologists ■ Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Allied Societies American Association of Petroleum Geologists ■ Asociación Geológica Argentina ■ Geological Association of Canada Geological Society of Australia ■ Geological Society of London ■ Geological Society of South Africa Soil Science Society of America GSA Welcomes These New Associated and Allied Societies GSA ASSOCIATED SOCIETY Environmental & Engineering Geophysical Society (www.eegs.org) GSA ALLIED SOCIETIES Geological Association of Canada (www.gac.ca) Geological Society of South Africa (www.gssa.org.za) Soil Science Society of America (www.soils.org) Attention All GSA Associated Society and GSA Division Leaders: Did you ever wait until the last minute to plan an event only to find out no meeting space was available? You can avoid panic and frustration by planning now for your business meeting, alumni party, reception, banquet, or social event at the Seattle GSA Annual Meeting. To reserve space for your event at the headquarters hotel or at the convention center, make your plans NOW and complete the Meeting Space Request form online. Step 1.Start planning NOW. Step 2.Go to www.geosociety.org. Step 3.Click on “Meetings and Excursions,” then “Geoscience Horizons Seattle 2003” Step 4.Go to the Meeting Space Request Form and complete it online. Thank you! 6 APRIL/MAY 2003, GSA TODAY Call for Papers PARDEE KEYNOTE SYMPOSIA P5 Preservation of Random Mega- scale Events on Mars and Earth: INVITED PAPERS Influence on Geologic History The Pardee Keynote Symposia are made possible by a grant from The Joseph T. Pardee GSA Planetary Geology Division Memorial Fund. Mary G. Chapman, U.S. Geological These Pardee Keynote sessions are special events of broad interest to the geoscience Survey, Flagstaff, AZ; Lawrence H. community. They represent hot issue topics on the leading edge in a scientific disci- Tanner, Bloomsburg University, pline or area of public policy, address broad fundamental issues and are interdisci- Bloomsburg, PA plinary. Selection was on a competitive basis. This year’s seven Pardee Keynote ses- sions were reviewed and accepted by the Annual Program Committee. (All speakers This session presents the state of our un- are invited.) derstanding of large-scale, rapid-acting geologic processes, such as bolide impact, P1 Global Climate Changes: Abrupt upon and attempt to clarify Gould’s superplume eruption, catastrophic flood, Late Pleistocene Climatic views, some of which were widely mis- and edifice collapse that are obvious on Reversals and Modern Global understood, and explicate interrelation- Mars yet scarcely recognized on Earth. Warming ships among his views in disparate subjects. P6 The Paleoenvironmental and GSA Quaternary Geology and Paleoclimatic Framework of Geomorphology Division P3 Modeling Metamorphism: Human Evolution Don J. Easterbrook, Western Washington Petrology, Geochemistry, GSA Archaeological Geology Division, University, Bellingham, WA; Ed Evenson, and Tectonics Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA; John GSA Quaternary Geology and Gosse, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Mineralogical Society of America, Geomorphology Division; GSA Canada Geochemical Society; GSA Structural Sedimentary Geology Division; Society Geology and Tectonics Division for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM) This session will explore global, late Pleistocene, rapid climatic changes, Michael Brown, University of Maryland, Gail M. Ashley, Rutgers University, focusing on the Younger Dryas and College Park, MD; Barbara L. Dutrow, Piscataway, NJ; Craig S. Feibel, Rutgers Intra-Allerod Cold Period, and aspects of Louisiana State University, Baton State University, New Brunswick, NJ global warming during the past century Rouge, LA Recent discoveries and established facts and earlier natural climatic changes. Metamorphism involves the study of regarding the paleoenvironment and global-scale cycles, for example, from di- paleoclimatic context of human evolu- P2 His View of Life: Reflections agenesis to exhumation of metamorphic tion will be examined with the goal on the Scientific Legacy of rocks, and from ocean floor sedimenta- of shedding some light on the puzzle of Stephen J. Gould tion to formation of mountain belts and human origins. global climate change. This session ad- Paleontological Society dresses a broad theme that is fundamental P7 The Science of Lewis and Clark: for mineralogy, petrology, geochemistry, Warren D. Allmon, Paleontological Historical Observations and tectonics and earth system science. Research Institution, Ithaca, NY; Patricia Modern Interpretations Kelley, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, NC; Robert M. Ross, P4 Neoproterozoic Geobiology: GSA Engineering Geology Division; Paleontological Research Institution, Fossils, Clocks, Isotopes, U.S. Geological Survey; U.S. Department Ithaca, NY and Rocks of the Interior; GSA History of Geology Division; History of Earth Science Society This session will explore the legacy of GSA Geobiology and Geomicrobiology Stephen Jay Gould. Speakers will reflect Division; Paleontological Society; Paul M. Santi, Colorado School of Geochemical Society; Precambrian Mines, Golden, CO (at large) The year 2003 is the 200th anniversary Shuhai Xiao, Tulane University, of the initiation of the Lewis and Clark New Orleans, LA; Alan J. Kaufman, Expedition. This session will gather University of Maryland, College scientists, historians, and science policy