September 4, 2002 GSA Release No. 01-41

(2) Highlights

Presentations at "Denver 2002: Science at the Highest Level" range from the geomorphic effects of wildfire to the evolution of the Rocky Mountains to early Mars - and everything in between. Numerous topics with public policy implications include hydrogeology and water resources, challenges in the national problem of high level radioactive waste disposal, including Yucca Mountain, and the role of earth sciences in fostering global equity and stability. The meeting also reflects GSA's continued commitment to Earth system processes and integrative science; a number of sessions bring geoscience together with biology, ecology, medicine, and other scientific disciplines.

Click on the links below to view a sampling of sessions and abstracts. To view all symposia and sessions, as well as speakers and their abstracts, visit http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2002AM/finalprogram/.

Earth Sciences Challenges in the National Problem of High-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal

http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2002AM/finalprogram/session_2730.htm

Yucca Mountain Update: Recent Advances from Scientific Investigations of the Unsaturated Zone

http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2002AM/finalprogram/session_2702.htm

http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2002AM/finalprogram/session_3246.htm

Sponsored by US Department of Energy-Yucca Mountain Project

Evolution of the Early Atmosphere, Hydrosphere, and Biosphere: Constraints from Ore Deposits

http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2002AM/finalprogram/session_2651.htm

http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2002AM/finalprogram/session_2652.htm

Sponsored by Society of Economic Geologists, Geochemical Society, NASA Astrobiology Division

Paleobiogeography: Integrating Plate Tectonics and Evolution

http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2002AM/finalprogram/session_2196.htm

Sponsored by Paleontological Society and GSA Geobiology and Geomicrobiology Division

Developing Perspectives on the Ecological Context of Biological Evolution Across the Neoproterozoic-Cambrian Transition

http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2002AM/finalprogram/session_2637.htm

Sponsored by Paleontological Society and GSA Geobiology and Geomicrobiology Division

There and Back Again: Terrestrial Approaches to Extraterrestrial Problems

http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2002AM/finalprogram/session_2884.htm

Sponsored by GSA Planetary Geology Division

Early Mars

http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2002AM/finalprogram/session_2916.htm

Sponsored by GSA Planetary Geology Division

Feedback in Earth Systems: Determining System Response to Perturbation Through Observations and Modeling

http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2002AM/finalprogram/session_2202.htm

Human Health Sciences and Geosciences: Bridging the Gap

http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2002AM/finalprogram/session_2960.htm

Geomorphic Impacts of Wildfire

http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2002AM/finalprogram/session_2808.htm

http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2002AM/finalprogram/session_3254.htm

Sponsored by GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division, GSA Engineering Geology Division, International Association of Wildland Fire

Groundwater Depletion and Overexploitation: A Global Problem

http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2002AM/finalprogram/session_2826.htm

http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2002AM/finalprogram/session_3363.htm

Sponsored by GSA Hydrogeology Division; International Association of Hydrogeologists

The Role of the Earth Sciences in Fostering Global Equity and Stability

http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2002AM/finalprogram/session_2506.htm

Sponsored by GSA International Division, U.S. National Committee for the Geological Sciences, U.S. National Committee for Geodesy and Geophysics

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