Geological Society of America 2007 Annual Meeting: Denver, Colorado, 28-31 October

More than 6000 geoscientists will gather at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver 28-31 October for “2007: Earth Sciences for Society,” the 119th annual meeting and exposition of the Geological Society of America. This is the first of three GSA Annual Meetings tied to themes of the International Year of Planet Earth, organized under the auspices of the Internal Union of Geological Sciences and the United National General Assembly.

 Scientific Program
Topics addressed in interdisciplinary, invited-speaker sessions will include:
New data, models, and concepts of the San Andreas Fault system
New eyes and ears on Mars
Oxygen, evolution, and extinction
America’s most vulnerable oceanfront communities

150+ TOPICAL SESSIONS
These interdisciplinary sessions involve a mix of invited and volunteered papers. A sampling of topics includes:
Global climate and environmental change
Geology and aqueous history of Mars
The search for biomarkers in the solar system
Early Earth studies: coevolution of Earth and life
The emerging discipline of medical geology
Forensic geoscience
Energy resources
Geoarchaeology
For more information on the technical program visit www.geosociety.org/meetings/2007/techProg.htm

FIELD TRIPS
Trips of national and regional interest range from one to four days in duration and some are physically rigorous.
Topics include:
Volcanism and tectonism in the Yellowstone hot spot
The richest oil shale deposits in the world
Geoarchaeology of paleoindian sites
Bedrock aquifers of the Denver Basin
West Bijou Creek exposure of the K-T boundary
A walk through a late-Jurassic ecosystem
GeoMystery trip to the Anton Escarpment
Walking with dinosaurs (includes the only known ceratopsian trackways)
Bicycle trip exploring hydrology of the Boulder Creek watershed
For more information on field trips visit www.geosociety.org/meetings/2007/fieldTrips.htm

Source: The Geological Society of America www.geosociety.org

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