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2012 GSA Annual Meeting technical program & events -- media advisory 2

September 26th, 2012

The program for GSA's 124th Annual Meeting & Exposition, 4 November in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, is now set and searchable online. Highlights include a Pardee Keynote Symposium on the current work of the Mars rover, Curiosity, and sessions on sea-level rise, hydrofracking, and the 2011 central Virginia earthquake. Notable speakers include Bill McKibben, this year's GSA President's Medal recipient; Scott Tinker, who will present both a lecture and a screening of his energy film, SWITCH; and Julie Brigham-Grette, who will describe her work in Arctic Russia.

Representatives of the media are cordially invited to attend and cover the meeting (eligibility and registration details in III below). Public information officers from universities, government agencies, and research institutions are also welcome to represent their organizations to members of the media at the meeting.

Find out what is new and newsworthy by browsing the complete technical program schedule at https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2012AM/finalprogram/.

To identify presentations in specific areas of interest, search topical sessions by discipline categories or sponsors using the drop-down menus at www.geosociety.org/meetings/2012/sessions/topical.asp, or use your browser's "find" feature to search for keywords or convener names.

I. SPECIAL LECTURES AND ADDRESSES

See www.geosociety.org/meetings/2012/extras.htm for a full listing. Sunday, 4 Nov.

GSA Presidential Address and President's Medal Presentation (12:15 to 1:15 p.m.): GSA President George H. Davis, Regents Professor (emeritus), University of Arizona, will speak on "Where Our Deepest Passions Intersect the World's Compelling Needs."
President's Medal Lecture (3 to 4:15 p.m.): Middlebury College Schumann Distinguished Scholar Bill McKibben will speak about "Getting Serious about Climate Change."

Monday, 5 Nov.

GSA Gold Medal Lectures (2 to 3:30 p.m.): GSA's 2012 medalists will deliver brief talks reflecting on their careers: Raymond A. Price, "The influence of conceptual models and geo-poetry on tectonics and structural geology"; John M. Eiler, "The isotopic anomalies of natural substances"; and Katharine W. Huntington, "Orogens, isotopes, and the evolution of Earth's surface.
Subaru Outdoor Life Lecture (5 to 6 p.m.): UMass-Amherst professor Julie Brigham-Grette will talk about her experiences as U.S. Chief Scientist in "Driven to Extremes—The Roadless Pursuit of Scientific Drilling at El'gygytgyn Crater Lake, Arctic Russia."

Tuesday, 6 Nov.

Michael Halbouty Distinguished Lecture/Lunchtime Lecture #3 (12:15 to 1:15 p.m.): UT-Austin professor Scott Tinker will discuss his documentary film in a lecture titled "SWTICH: The Global Energy Transition."
Richard H. Jahns Distinguished Lecture (4:15 to 4:30 p.m.): Penn State professor Scott Burns will talk about "Urban Landslides: Challenges for Forensic Engineering Geologists and Engineers."
Birdsall-Dreiss Distinguished Lecture (4:30 to 5:30 p.m.): UC-Irvine professor Jay Famiglietti will speak on "Water Cycle Change and the Human Fingerprint on the Water Landscape of the 21st Century: Observations from a Decade of Grace."

Wednesday, 6 Nov.

GSA Lunchtime Lecture #4 (12:15 to 1:15 p.m.): David Conover (senior vice president at Dutko Grayling) and Albert Teich (research professor of science, technology & international affairs at George Washington University) will speak in a session moderated by Kasey White (GSA's director of geoscience policy): "What do the Election Results mean for Science?"

II. SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

Pardee Keynote Symposia schedule: http://www.geosociety.org/meetings/2012/sessions/keynote.htm

Sunday, 4 Nov.

Geomorphology of the Anthropocene (8 a.m. to noon): Includes presentations on human impacts on Yellowstone; land use and soil erosion; "wilderness is dead"; buried streams beneath urban landscapes; and evolution of Earth's surface. gsa.confex.com/gsa/2012AM/fina … am/session_30644.htm

Rapid Sea-Level Rise and Its Impacts: Past, Present, and Future I & II (8 a.m. to noon and 1:30 to 5:30 p.m.): These sessions convene leading scientists from diverse disciplines to present current research on one of the most compelling issues in the geosciences: rapid sea-level rise and the attendant threat to coastlines worldwide. https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2012AM/webprogram/Session30943.html gsa.confex.com/gsa/2012AM/webp … am/Session31945.html

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