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| 2005 Annual Meeting Highlights | ||
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| 5897 | Preliminary attendance figure | |
| 257 | Number of sessions | |
| 3300 | Number of papers submitted | |
| 166 | Number of exhibiting companies | |
| 250 | Number of attendees Late-Breaking Session on Hurricane Katrina | |
| ~ 650 | Number attending the Public Forum on Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn |
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| Information on recorded meeting sessions coming up in the November GSA Connection. |
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| Watch for more annual meeting details in GSA Today. | ||
| Congratulations! These individuals were honored at the GSA Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City for outstanding achievements in geoscience. [ meet the 2005 award recipients ] |
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Membership Matters
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If not, make sure you take advantage of the early renewal rate (already reflected in dues amount).
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Coming Soon: Watch the November issue of GSA Connection for a Bulletin Board matching donors with people seeking books, journals, and other materials for libraries and schools in hurricane-affected areas!
Especially for Students
Applications are being accepted for the 2006 National Academies’ Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program.
Winter program deadline: 1 November
[ more details ]
National Science Foundation (NSF) East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes (EAPSI) Program.
Application Deadline: 13 December
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Communicating the Value of Geoscience
| GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS | |
| GSA is a sponsor of a congressional briefing hosted by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) on 28 October 2005. The focus is how science can help reduce America’s risk from hurricanes and their aftermath. [ read more ] |
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| GSA IN THE NEWS | |
| • | Research by Jourdan (UC Berkeley) et al. on the massive Karoo-Ferrar flood basalts (Geology, September 2005) was reported in Nature. [ GEOLOGY abstract ] |
| • | A study by Alegret (University College London) et al. of newly discovered fossils in Cuba with signatures of the Chicxulub impact in a Cretaceous-Paleogene timeframe (Geology, September 2005) was reported in the New York Times and subsequently picked up by other outlets. [ GEOLOGY abstract ] |
| • | Davies and Posamentier's description of how three-dimensional seismic reflection data are now being used to understand geologic processes in sedimentary basins (GSA Today, October 2005) was reported in Scientific American. [ GSA TODAY article | SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN article ] |
| • | Rebecca Hunt's GeoCorps America™ experience in Glacier National park was reported in the Daily Inter Lake. [ view article ] |
| • | Earth System Processes 2 [ view news coverage ] |
| Press Releases Issued by GSA | |
| View | October Geology and GSA Today Media Highlights (28 Sep) |
| View | Late-Breaking Geoscience on Hurricane Katrina, and More, at GSA Annual Meeting Next Month (29 Sep) |
| View | “An Eye on Katrina: Geoscience Perspectives on a Catastrophic Hurricane” At GSA Annual Meeting Next Week (10 Oct) |
| View | Space Enthusiasts Invited to Hear Top Scientists from The Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn in Salt Lake City Next Week (11 Oct) |
| View | Mars' Climate in Flux: Mid-Latitude Glaciers (14 Oct) |
| View | Wright Bros. Upstaged! Dinos Invented Biplanes (14 Oct) |
| View | Disaster Lessons: What You Don’t Know Can Kill You (14 Oct) |
| View | Geoscientists and Educators Take on Antievolutionists (14 Oct) |
| View | Antievolutionism Addressed by Top Geoscientists and Educators (14 Oct) |
| View | Is America’s Oil Age Already Waning? (14 Oct) |
| Visit the Annual Meeting Newsroom for press releases from other organizations |
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| Journal Media Highlights | |
| View | October Geosphere (28 Oct) |
| View | November Geology and GSA Today (28 Oct) |
| View | November GSA Bulletin (28 Oct) |
| Selected Press Releases received by GSA | |
| View | International project team announces discovery of location of Homer’s Ithaca (29 Sep) |
| View | Treasured Map Lures Geologists to Buffalo (4 Oct) |
| View | Agronomy, Crop, and Soil Science Research to be Presented in Salt Lake City (4 Oct) |
| View | AGI Relaunches GeoSpectrum (12 Oct) |
| View | Scientists to Share What Can Be Learned from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and How to Prepare for Future Hurricanes (19 Oct) |
Calendar Close-ups
Check on upcoming meetings of GSA and many other geoscience organizations.
Frontiers in Soil Science Research, 12-14 December 2005, Washington D.C., National Academy of Sciences workshop.
6th National Conference on Science, Policy and the Environment: Energy for a Sustainable and Secure Future, 26-27 January 2006, Washington, D.C., National Council for Science and the Environment. Register by November 18, 2005 for discounted rate.
GSA is a co-sponsor of the 86th American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting, 29 January–2 February 2006, Georgia World Congress Center. Theme: "Applications of Weather and Climate Data."
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