GSA North-Central Section
48th Annual Meeting
24–25 April 2014
Cornhusker Marriott
Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
Call for proposals
You are cordially invited to submit proposals for symposia or theme sessions, field trips, and workshops for the 2014 meeting of the North-Central Section of GSA, which will be held in the lovely and welcoming Lincoln, Nebraska, USA on 24 and 25 April 2014. Please consider that field trips may be scheduled to run immediately before or after the meeting proper. All proposal submissions are due by 1 August 2013.
The local committee is committed to excellence, and your participation is the absolutely essential ingredient in the meeting’s success. We will gladly entertain proposals in all geologic disciplines in the interest of staging a well-rounded technical program. Aspects of the geomorphological, geological, and paleontological evolution of the interior of North America will be particularly relevant to this meeting. The technical program will very likely have elements of great interest not only to members of the section, but also to those in surrounding sections.
Lincoln (http://www.lincoln.org/) is a multifaceted community that is the chief part of a metropolitan statistical area populated by more than 300,000 people. It is easily accessible by Interstate 80 and other major highways, by Amtrak through a newly constructed station near the Haymarket district, and from airports in both Lincoln and nearby Omaha. The meeting will be held at the luxurious and newly renovated Cornhusker Marriott, which is billed as “Lincoln’s landmark hotel.” Omaha’s vibrant and progressive metroplex provides exceptional entertainment and cultural opportunities and it is less than an hour’s drive away from the conference venue via an easy route.
Lincoln is, in many ways, in the middle of everything: it lies at the transition between the Central Lowlands and the Great Plains, halfway between the Great Lakes and the Rockies, and where the East meets the West. The Sand Hills (the largest dune field in the Western Hemisphere), some of the most interesting loess terrain in North America, the Laurentide glacial limit, and exposures of Neogene, Cretaceous, Pennsylvanian, and Permian strata lie within the enclosing region. We have tentatively planned a one-day field trip to the amazing Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historical Park (http://ashfall.unl.edu/), one of the finest vertebrate lagerstätten in the world. Both Lincoln and Omaha lie atop the 1.1 Ga Midcontinent Rift. The buried Nemaha Uplift, equivalent in length to nearly one-third of the Appalachian chain, reaches the southern environs of the Lincoln metropolitan area. As a city, Lincoln offers multiple exceptional museums, including the University of Nebraska State Museum (http://museum.unl.edu/) and its world-renowned collection of fossil mammals, plus great restaurants, and an exciting nightlife. New developments in the downtown Haymarket district, a short walk from the conference venue, will add greatly to the excitement in the spring of 2014.
We look forward to seeing you in Lincoln in 2014!
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| How To Submit a Proposal |
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All Proposals Should Include:
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| Submit Theme session or Symposia proposals to Paul Hanson, and David Loope, University of Nebraska–Lincoln |
| Submit Field trip proposals to Jesse Korus, and Duane Eversoll, , University of Nebraska–Lincoln |
| Please direct Workshop proposals and general inquiries to the meeting chair: R. M. (Matt) Joeckel, , University of Nebraska–Lincoln |