Annual Meeting and Exposition www.geosociety.org/meetings/2001/ 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 geology and geomorphology; coastal geology; hydrological and environmental reclamation sites, such Abstracts Deadlines: as nearby Woburn of A Civil Action fame; and engineering geology 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 Rock (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. earth 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 Geobiology: 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 sediments 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 geochemistry, 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 Crust and Upper Mantle: the Evolution 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 Geodynamics? Structural Geology 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 Geologists; History of Earth 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 petrology, 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;