Penrose Conferences

Upcoming Conferences

Linkages and Feedbacks in Orogenic Processes — A Conference Honoring the Career of Robert D. Hatcher Jr.
30 March–4 April 2014, Asheville, North Carolina, USA
Conveners: Ryan Thigpen, Christopher Bailey, Harold Stowell, Richard Law
Application deadline: 1 December 2013
Registration deadline: 1 Feb. 2014
Predicting and Detecting Natural and Induced Flow Paths for Geothermal Fluids in Deep Sedimentary Basins
19–23 October 2013, Park City, Utah, USA
Conveners: John Holbrook, Rick Allis, Derek Elsworth, Sidney Green, Joseph N. Moore

GSA’s Penrose Conferences were established in 1969 to bring together multidisciplinary groups of geoscientists and facilitate an open and frank discussion of ideas in an informal atmosphere as well as to stimulate individual and collaborative research. Recent Penrose Conferences have met in fascinating places around the world, including Il Ciocco, Castelvecchio Pascoli, Lucca, Italy; Urumqi, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China; Cadaqués & Cap de Creus Peninsula, Catalonia, Spain; and Google Headquarters in Mountain View, California, USA.

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An invitation from the conveners is NOT required for making application to participate in a Penrose Conference. Anyone interested in attending a conference is encouraged to contact the convener of that conference or mail the application to the designated convener.

Past Conferences & Reports

2013 Penrose Conferences

Coastal Processes and Environments Under Sea-Level Rise and Changing Climate: Science to Inform Management
Joint Penrose / Chapman Conference
14–19 April 2013, Galveston, Texas, USA
Conveners: John B. Anderson, Margaret Davidson, John W. Geissman, Gary J. Hampson, Denise J. Reed, Torbjörn E. Törnqvist
Penrose Conference Report

2012 Penrose Conferences

Deformation, Fluid Flow, and Mass Transfer in the Forearc of Convergent Margins
25–31 March 2012 • Il Ciocco, Castelvecchio Pascoli, Lucca, Italy
Conveners: Donald Fisher, César Ranero, Paola Vannucchi
Penrose Conference Report

2011 Penrose Conferences

Comparative evolution of past and present accretionary orogens: Central Asia and the Circum-Pacific
4–10 September 2011 • Urumqi, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China
Conveners: Alfred Kröner, Robert J. Stern, Bor-Ming Jahn, Wenjiao Xiao, Lifei Zhang, Robert Hall, Alexander Kotov, Reimar Seltmann
Penrose Conference Report
Deformation Localization in Rocks: New Advances
27 June–2 July 2011, Cadaqués & Cap de Creus Peninsula, Catalonia, Spain
Conveners: Elena Druguet, Jordi Carreras, G. Ian Alsop, Paul D. Bons, Dyanna M. Czeck, Peter J. Hudleston, Christine S. Siddoway
Conference Overview
Neotectonics of Arc-Continent Collision
17–21 January 2011, Manizales, Colombia
Conveners: Paul Mann, Carlos Vargas Jimenez, Caroline Whitehill
Penrose Conference Report: Full Text | PDF
Google Earth: Visualizing the Possibilities for Geoscience Education and Research
4–8 January 2011; Google Inc. Headquarters, Mountain View, California, USA
Conveners: John Bailey, Declan De Paor, Tina Ornduff, Steven Whitmeyer
Conference Overview

2010 Penrose Conferences

Origin and Uplift of the Sierra Nevada, California, USA
16–20 August 2010, Bridgeport, California
Conveners: Cathy J. Busby, Keith D. Putirka
Penrose Conference Report

2009 Penrose Conferences

Tectonic Development of the Amerasia Basin
4–9 October 2009, Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada
Conveners: Lawrence Lawver, Victoria Pease; Co-Conveners: Ruth Jackson, Sergey Drachev
Penrose Conference Report
Low δ¹⁸O rhyolites and crustal melting: Growth and redistribution of the continental crust
9–13 September 2009, Twin Falls, Idaho, and Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA
Conveners: Peter Larson, Ilya Bindeman, John Wolff
Penrose Conference Report
Plumes and Their Role in Whole Mantle Convection and Recycling
11-15 May 2009, Pico, the Azores
Conveners: C. Beier, T. Rushmer, S. Turner, E. Widom, Z. Franca
Overview

2007 Penrose Conferences

Extending a Continent: Architecture, Rheological Coupling, and Heat Budget
8-12 October 2007, Island of Naxos, Aegean Sea, Greece
Conveners: Uwe Ring, Klaus Regenauer-Lieb, Brian Wernicke, Charalampos Fassoulas
Penrose Conference Report
Hothouse, Icehouse, and Impacts: The Late Eocene Earth
3-6 October 2007, Monte Cònero (Ancona), Italy
Conveners: Alessandro Montanari, Christian Koeberl, Frits Hilgen, Rodolfo Coccioni
Penrose Conference Report

2006 Penrose Conferences

Unlocking 3D Earth Systems — Harnessing New Digital Technologies to Revolutionize Multi-Scale Geologic Models
17-21 September 2006, Durham, UK
Penrose Conference Report
Arc Crustal Genesis and Evolution
9-15 July 2006, Valdez, Alaska USA
Penrose Conference Report
When Did Plate Tectonics Begin on Earth? Theoretical and Empirical Constraints
13-19 June 2006, Lander, Wyoming USA
Penrose Conference Report
Chronostratigraphy: Beyond the GSSP
3-9 June 2006, Schloss Seggau, Styria, Austria
Penrose Conference Report

2005 Penrose Conferences

Lessons in Tectonics, Climate, and Eustasy from the Stratigraphic Record in Arc Collision Zones
Conveners: Peter D. Clift, Amy E. Draut
10-14 October 2005, Price, Utah USA
Penrose Conference Report
Kinematics and Geodynamics of Intraplate Dextral Shear in Eastern California and Western Nevada
Conveners: Jeffrey Lee, Daniel Stockli, Christopher Henry, Timothy Dixon
21-26 April 2005, Mammoth Lakes, California USA
Penrose Conference Report

2004 Penrose Conferences

Secular Variation in Tectonics and Allied Fields
Conveners: Dwight Bradley, John Dewey
22-28 October 2004
St. George, Utah
Penrose Conference Report
Mass Redistribution in Continental Magmatic-Hydrothermal Systems
Conveners: John H. Dilles, Greg B. Arehart, Peter I. Nabelek, Todd C. Feeley
September 6-11, 2004
Yellowstone National Park and Butte (Fairmont Hot Springs), Montana
Penrose Conference Report
Neogene-Quaternary Continental Margin Volcanism
Conveners: Gerardo J. Aguirre-Díaz, José Luis Macías, Claus Siebe
January 12-16, 2004,
Metepec (eastern slopes of Popocatépetl volcano), Mexico
Penrose Conference Report

2003 Penrose Conferences

Plume IV: Beyond the Plume Hypothesis — Tests of the Plume Paradigm and Alternatives
Conveners: Gillian R. Foulger, James H. Natland, Don L. Anderson
August 25-29, 2003, Hveragerði, Iceland
Penrose Conference Report
Tectonics, Climate, and Landscape Evolution
Conveners: Sean Willett, Niels Hovius, Mark Brandon, Don Fisher
Local Organizing Committee: Lu Chai-Yu, Chu Hao-Tsu, Yue-Gau Chen
January 13-17, 2003, Taroko National Park, Taiwan
Conference Overview

2002 Penrose Conferences

Three-Dimensional Flow, Fabric Development, and Strain in Deformed Rocks and the Significance for Mountain Building Processes: New Approaches
Conveners: Hermann Lebit, Catalina Lüneburg, Peter Hudleston, John Ramsay
August 18-24, 2002, Ascona, Switzerland
Penrose Conference Report
Precambrian High-Pressure-High-Temperature Metamorphism: A Key to Understanding the Lower Crust and Reconstruction of Precambrian Plate Tectonics
Conveners: M. Brown, A. Kröner, P.J. O'Brien, C.W. Passchier, Li Jianghai, Zhai Mingguo
September 23-29, 2002, Hengshan-Wutaishan and Beijing, China
Conference Overview

2001 Penrose Conference

Longevity and Dynamics of Rhyolitic Magma Systems
Conveners: Kurt Knesel, George Bergantz, Jon Davidson
June 7-12, 2001, Mammoth, California
Conference Overview

2000 Penrose Conference Reports

Volcanic Rifted Margins
Conveners: Ian Davison, Joel Baker, Martin Menzies
March 27–31, 2000, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham Surrey
Penrose Conference Report
Great Cascadia Earthquake Tricentennial
Conveners:
John J. Clague, Brian F. Atwater, Kelin Wang, Yumei Wang, and Ivan G. Wong
June 4–8, 2000, Seaside, Oregon
Penrose Conference Report
The Iapetus Ocean — Its Birth, Life, and death: The Wilson Cycle
Conveners: Ian Dalziel, Douglas J. Fettes, Anthony L. Harris, and Ricardo Astini
September 17–24, 2000, Edinburgh, Scotland
Penrose Conference Report

1999 Penrose Conference Reports

Subduction to Strike-slip Transitions on Plate Boundaries
Conveners: Paul Mann, Nancy Grindlay, James Dolan
January 18–24, 1999, Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic
Penrose Conference Report
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Mid-Cretaceous to Recent Plate Boundary Processes in the Southwest Pacific
Conveners: Suzanne L. Baldwin, Gordon S. Lister
March 25–31, 1999, Arthur's Pass, South Island, New Zealand
Penrose Conference Report
Terrane Accretion Along the Western Cordilleran Margin: Constraints on Timing and Displacement
Conveners: Brian Mahoney, Basil Tikoff, Julie A. Maxson
June 21–27, 1999, Winthrop, Washington. Penrose Conference Report
The Marine Eocene-Oligocene Transition
Conveners: Donald R. Prothero, Linda C. Ivany,
Elizabeth A. Nesbitt
August 17–22, 1999, Olympia, Washington. Penrose Conference Report

1998 Penrose Conference Reports

Linking Spatial and Temporal Scales in Paleoecology and Ecology
Conveners: Andrew S. Cohen, James Brown, Dale Springer, Peter Holterhoff
May 14–18, 1998, Solomons, Maryland. Penrose Conference Report
Evolution of Ocean Island Volcanoes
Conveners: Dennis Geist, Wendy Bohrson, Karen Harpp
June 4–12, 1998, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. Penrose Conference Report
Processes of Crustal Differentiation: Crust-Mantle Interactions, Melting, and Granite Migration Through the Crust
Conveners: Tracy Rushmer, Michael Brown, George Bergantz
July 4–11, 1998, Solomons, Maryland. Penrose Conference Report
Ophiolites and Oceanic Crust: New Insights from Field Studies and Ocean Drilling Program
Conveners: Yildirim Dilek, Eldridge M. Moores, Don Elthon, Adolphe Nicolas
September 13–17, 1998, Solomons, Maryland. Penrose Conference Report