NEW SCHEDULE for Saturday/Sunday Events
The following events are scheduled differently than years past …
Saturday, October 8
Presidential Awards Dinner (by invitation only)
Sunday, October 9
Exhibit Hall Opening 2:00-6:30 p.m. (bars open in posters and exhibit hall 4:30-6:30 p.m.) Presidential Address & Awards Ceremony 6:30-8:30 p.m. Awards and Welcome Reception 8:30-9:30 p.m. NOTE: Technical Sessions will run normal hours on Sunday (8 a.m.-5:30 p.m.). Posters and GSIF are welcome to stay up until 6:30 p.m. on Sunday.
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Special Events

3rd Annual Photo Exhibition

Minneapolis Convention Center, Mezzanine Level

Dont miss the 3rd Annual Geological Society of America Photo Exhibition (Supported in part by Earth Systems Imaging and Terranes LLC).

Annual Geoscience Educators Reception

Saturday, 8 Oct., 5-7 p.m., Minneapolis Convention Center, Seasons

The GSA Education Committee, the National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT), the GSA Geoscience Education Division, Cutting Edge, the IRIS Consortium, the American Geological Institute (AGI), and UNAVCO would like to invite all educators to a relaxing forum for socializing, sharing ideas, and meeting other geoscience community members interested in education. Appetizers and cash bar provided.

GSA Student Icebreaker

Minnesota students host the world's students!
Saturday, 8 Oct., 6 p.m., Loring Theater, 1407 Nicollet Ave (1 block from the Convention Center)

All student attendees are invited to come enjoy good food, good drinks, good entertainment, and good company together at the Loring Theater. We'll have free food, free drinks (while they last!), games, music, and a bad geology movie clip montage running in the theater. Come get to know your future collaborators and colleagues, as the students of Minnesota host the geoscience students of the world!
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President's Student Breakfast Reception

Sunday, 9 Oct., 7-8:30 a.m., Minneapolis Convention Center, Ballroom B

GSA President John Geissman invites students to this free breakfast buffet sponsored by ExxonMobil Corporation. Each student registered for the meeting will receive a complimentary ticket to attend. Use this time to network, ask questions and bring up issues directly to GSA leadership and ExxonMobil staffers, meet fellow students, and warm up for the meeting!

Lunchtime Lectures

Sun.–Wed., 12:15-1:15 p.m., Minneapolis Convention Center, Room 101DE

The Anthropocene: A Geological Perspective
A panel discussion with Jonathan Foley and Stanley Finney.
Mineral Resources—21st Century Challenges for Earth Scientists
John F.H. Thompson (2011 Michel T. Halbouty Distinguished Lecturer)
Mathematical Modeling is Damaging our Science
Orrin Pilkey
The Role of Geoscience in our Society
Harvey Thorleifson

Troubled Waters: A Mississippi River Story

Sun., 9 Oct., 4–5 p.m. (film showing); Q&A session: 5–5:30 p.m.
Minneapolis Convention Center, Room 101FG

This film, by Bell Museum Productions, traces the development of America’s bountiful heartland and its effect on the legendary Mississippi River. Through beautiful photography and inspiring narrative, the film offers solutions to the river’s troubles through fresh ideas and concrete solutions. Please join Barb Coffin, Coordinator of Public Programs and Executive Producer of Bell Museum Productions, for a screening and discussion of this thought-provoking film. Coffin will be joined by local geologists who appear in the documentary, discussing their research approaches to untangling natural from anthropogenic agents of change to one of the world’s great rivers.

Presidential Address & Awards Ceremony

Gold Medal Lectures

Penrose Medalist	Day Medalist	Donath Medalist
Monday, 10 October, 1:30-3:30 p.m., MCC Room 101FG
Paul F. Hoffman Harvard University “How adolescent Earth made continents but messed up the carbon cycle”	Susan L. Brantley Pennsylvania State University “Back to the future as a geochemist”	Jasper A. Vrugt University of California at Irvine “Lost Between Two Shores”