Geoscience Calendar - 2008

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GSA Meetings are highlighted in yellow.
Meetings of GSA's Associated / Allied Societies are highlighted in green.

  April 2008

6-10 April, Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Engineering and Environmental Problems (SAGEEP), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Information: EEGS/SAGEEP 2008, 1720 South Bellaire Street, Suite 110, Denver, CO 80222-4303 USA; Tel: +1-303-531-7517, fax: +1-303-820-3844.

10-11 April 2008, GSA Southeastern Section Meeting, Charlotte, North Carolina USA. Information: Geological Society of America, Meetings Dept., .

14-15 April 2008, The Future of Coal Gasification as a Means of Power Generation, London, United Kingdom. Information: SMi Group Ltd, London, Tel: +44 (0) 20 7827 6000, Fax: +44 (0) 20 7827 6001.

16-18 April, Annual Meeting of the Seismological Society of America, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Information: Tabitha Thurston, Seismological Society of America, .

24-25 April 2008, GSA North-Central Section Meeting, Evansville, Indiana USA. Information: Geological Society of America, Meetings Dept., .

27-29 April, 9th China International Water Supply & Drainage and Water Treatment Exhibition (WSDWTF), Shanghai, China. Information: Helen Zhu, Tel: +86 21 5459 2323 ext 329, Fax: +86 21 5425 3480, .

28-29th April, Sustainable Energy 2008, London, United Kingdom. Information: SMi Group Limited, Unit 122 - 124, 30 Great Guildford Street, London SE1 0HS, England; Tel: +44 (0)207 827 6000; Fax: +44 (0)207 827 6001.

  May 2008

7 May, Biomass to Liquids: Unlocking the Potential, The Hatton, London, United Kingdom. Information: Victoria Smith, SMi - Energy and Finance, +44 (0) 20 7827 6090, Fax: +44 (0) 20 7827 6747, .

May 19-21, MODFLOW and More: Ground Water and Public Policy, Golden, Colorado, USA. Information: International Groundwater Modeling Center; +1-303-273-3103, fax: +1-303-384-2037, .

May 20-22, EBSD (Electron Backscatter Diffraction) Workshop, sponsored by the Microbeam Analysis Society, at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Information: John Fournelle .

26-30 May 2008, Society of Wetland Scientists 29th Annual Meeting, Washington, DC USA. Information: Meeting Co-Chairs, Kel Wieder or Terry Doss .

  June 2008

1-5 June, American Astronomical Society 212th Meeting, Saint Louis, Missouri USA. Information: AAS, Kelli Gilmore, +1-202-328-2010, ext. 111.

2-3 June, Teaching Climate Change with Ice Core Data, in conjunction with the 2008 AMQUA meeting, State College, Pennsylvania, USA. See the "On the Cutting Edge" Teaching Climate Change Web site for more information.

2-5 June, IMWA'2008, 10th International Mine Water Association Congress: Mine Water and the Environment, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic. Information: Nada Rapantova , VSB-Techinical University Ostrava, Czech Republic.

5-7 June, American Quaternary Association (AMQUA) Biennial Meeting, State College, Pennsylvania, USA. Information: scientific program chairpersons: Jeffrey P. Donnelly , Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, +1-508-289-2994; Benjamin P. Horton , University of Pennsylvania, +1-215-573-5388. Abstract deadline: 30 April 2008.

16-20 June, 8th Scientific Conference SGEM (Surveying Geology Ecology Management), "Modern Managment of Mine Producing, Geology, and Environmental Protection," Albena, Bulgaria. Information: SGEM, 14 Kliment Ohridsky Blvd., 1797 Sofia, Bulgaria, or e-mail SEGM .

24-26 June, Subsea Survey 08, Galveston, Texas USA. Information: Technology Systems Corporation, +1-772-221-7720; 877-270-7102 (toll-free); Fax: 772-221-7715,

29 June-3 July, Ninth International Conference on Permafrost, Fairbanks, Alaska USA. Information: U.S. Permafrost Association, Elizabeth Lilly, +1-907-479-8891, .

30 June-2 July, AWRA Summer Specialty Conference - Riparian Ecosystems & Buffers: Working at the Water's Edge, Virginia Beach, Virginia USA. Information: Patricia A. Reid, American Water Resources Association, PO Box 1626, Middleburg, VA 20118; +1-540-687-8390, fax: 540-687-8395, .

  July 2008

1-3 July, YORSGET: International Meeting of Young Researchers in Structural Geology and Tectonics, Oviedo, Spain. Information: Miguel Gutiérrez-Medina , Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Oviedo, +34-985-10-32-02.

9-11 July, Rocky Mountain Energy Epicenter, Denver, Colorado, USA. A joint meeting of the Rocky Mountain Section of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists and the Colorado Oil & Gas Association. Information: Energy Epicenter Contacts, +1-303-861-0362,

20-24 July, Australian Earth Science Convention 2008, Perth, Western Australia. Information: publicity@gsa.org.au.

28-31 July, 1st International Conference on Hydropedology, Penn State, University Park, Pennsylvania USA. This meeting will highlight the emerging interdisciplinary field of hydropedology and promote collaboration among soil science, hydrology, geomorphology, and other related bio- and geosciences communities. Information: Henry Lin, Penn State, +1-814-865-6726, , hydropedology.psu.edu.

  August 2008

5-14 August, 33rd International Geological Congress -



Earth System Science: Foundation for Sustainable Development, Oslo, Norway. Information: Congress Conference AS, Thomas Heftyes gt. 2, PO Box 2694 Solli, No 0204 Oslo, Tel: +47-2256 1930, fax: +47-2256 0541.

13-15 August, Central Atlantic Conjugate Margins| Halifax 2008, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Information: Trudy D. Lewis, Lewis Conferences International Inc., +1-902-422-6069, Fax: 902- 425-3064, .

11-16 August, 6th International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering, Arlington, Virginia, USA. Information: Shamsher Prakash, Conference Director.

17-20 August, Inaugural Global Geotourism Conference, Perth, Australia. Information: Ross K. Dowling, Foundation Professor of Tourism, Edith Cowan University, Western Australia, Chairperson, FACET, .

  September 2008

September 15-20, AEG 51st Annual Meeting - Laissez Les Bon Temps Rouler (Let the Good Times Roll), New Orleans, Louisiana USA. Information: James May, +1-601-415-5212, ; Darrel W. Schmitz, +1-662-325-2904, .

September 15-20, Euroengeo 2008: II European Conference of International Association for Engineering, Cities and their Underground Environment, Madrid, Spain. Information: EUROENGEO 2008, Tel: + 34 91 391 05 78, + 34 91 336 77 57; FAX: + 34 91 536 05 08; .

20-24 September, 3rd International Professional Geologic Conference, American Institute of Professional Geologists (AIPG) 45th Annual Meeting and the Arizona Hydrological Society (AHS) 21st Annual Symposium, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA. Themes: Changing Waterscapes and Water Ethics for the 21st Century and Global Geoscience Practice, Standards, Ethics, and Accountability. Information: www.aipg.org (scroll down), or .

21-24 September, Association of Earth Science Editors (AESE), Flagstaff, Arizona, USA. Information: AESE, Tom Overton or Wendy Davidson (abstracts deadline: 28 July 2008 - send to Tom Overton)..

21-27 September, Joint Annual Meeting, International Committee for coal and Organic Petrology (ICCP) and The Society for Organic Petrology (TSOP), Oviedo, Spain. Information: Isabel Suárez-Ruiz, Instituto Nacional del Carbon, National Council for Scientific Research, Ap. Co, 73 33080 Oviedo, Spain; phone: 34985119090, fax: 34985297662, .

22-24 September, GeoMod2008, International Geomodelling Conference, Florence, Italy. Information: Giacomo Corti, +39.055.275.7528.

  October 2008

2-3 October, 2008 U.S. EPA/NGWA Remediation of Abandoned Mine Lands Conference, Denver, Colorado USA. Information: Marti Otto, U.S. EPA, ; or Robert Masters, NGSA +1-800- 551-7379, (abstracts deadline: 18 April 2008).

5-9 October, GSA Annual Meeting, Houston, Texas USA. Joint meeting of Geological Society of America and the Soil Science Society of America. Information: GSA Meetings, (abstracts deadline: 3 June 2008).

8-10 October, 8th International Hydrogeological Congress of Greece & 3rd Workshop on Fissured Rocks Hydrology, Athens, Greece. Information: G. Migiros, Agricultural University of Athens, Tel: +30 210 5294157; Fax: +30 210 5294161;

26-31 October, 36th Congress of IAH; Integrating Groundwater Science and Human Well-being, Toyama City, Japan. Organised by Japan National Chapter of IAH. Information: IAH2008, Fax: +81-76-428-9156; .

  November 2008

17-24 November, Fourth International Conference on the Geology of the Tethys, Cairo, Egypt. Information: El-Sayed Abd El-Aziz Aly Youssef , Geology Dept., Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt. Fax: 002 02 35728843, Phone: 002 02 35676887.

  December 2008

1-5 December, Water Scarcity, Global Changes, and Groundwater Management Responses, Irvine, California USA. Convened by UNESCO, the University of California, Irvine, and USGS. Information: Secretariat: Diana Dehm and Megan Kinzer, Urban Water Research Center, University of California, Irvine, +1-714-430-1476, Fax: 714-436-2940, (abstracts deadline: 30 April 2008).

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