TECHNICAL PROGRAM
In addition to the following sessions, there will also be discipline sessions and poster sessions. Please direct questions on these sessions to the Technical Program Co-chairs: Neal Iverson and Kristie Franz .
INFORMATION FOR PRESENTERS
Oral Session Location and Format
Oral session rooms are located on the second floor of the Scheman Building. Sessions will consist of 20-minute presentations (17 minutes presentation; three minutes for questions and discussion). Presentations must be in PowerPoint or PDF format. Standard (4:3) and widescreen (16:9) formats are acceptable. One laptop computer with Windows7 (no Macs available) loaded with PowerPoint 2016, one LCD projector, and one screen are provided for all oral sessions. In addition, each room is equipped with a lectern, slide advancer, laser pointer, and a speaker timer. Speakers may not use their own laptops for presentation.
Speaker Ready Room (Scheman 204)
All oral session presenters must visit the Speaker Ready Room before their scheduled presentation to ensure their PowerPoint or PDF file is configured properly and to load it onto their session’s folder on the meeting server. Each speaker must bring his or her PowerPoint or PDF presentation on a USB compatible flash drive (a.k.a. thumb drive or memory stick) for uploading. Failure to do so may result in the omission of a presentation from the session sequence. The Speaker Ready Room is open for uploading and speaker assistance as follows:
Sunday, 15 April, 4:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Monday, 16 April, 7:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Tuesday, 17 April, 7:30 a.m. – noon.
The deadlines suggested below will ensure that your presentation will get to the laptop in the meeting room and on time for your session.
| For presentations on |
Upload no later than |
| Monday, 16 April AM |
7:00 p.m., Sunday, 15 April |
| Monday, 16 April PM |
10:00 a.m. Monday, 16 April |
| Tuesday, 17 April AM |
5:30 p.m., Monday, 16 April |
| Tuesday, 17 April PM |
10:00 a.m., Tuesday, 17 April |
Orientations for Session Chairs and Oral Session Student Volunteers (Scheman 275)
Session chairs and student volunteers staffing oral sessions are requested to attend a 15-minute “Oral Session Orientation” to review session time management, AV procedures, and other information affecting the conduct of the day’s sessions. These will be held from 7:15 to 7:30 a.m. on Monday, 16 April and again on Tuesday, 17 April in Scheman 275.
Session chairs are asked to strictly adhere to the timing and order of the technical program and to limit speakers to their allotted time (20 minutes total, including questions). If a speaker does not appear for an assigned time slot, session chairs should call for a break or discussion period and begin the following presentation at its scheduled time. Session chairs should meet with the assigned student volunteer in the meeting room prior to the start of the session. Volunteers help the sessions run smoothly and can contact designated audiovisual and information technology personnel in the event of technical problems.
Poster Sessions
All poster sessions are located in the First Floor Lobby. Poster presenters will have one 4' by 8' horizontal (landscape) poster surface that uses pushpins for mounting. Authors may bring their own pushpins, and some will also be provided. Numbers on the display surfaces will correspond to poster booth numbers listed in the Program. Authors will present either 9:30–11:30 a.m., or 3–5 p.m. and should check the program for their assigned day and time. Authors should arrive 15 minutes before their session starts to put up their posters. Posters will be viewable all day and should be mounted in the morning starting at 7:45 a.m. regardless of presentation time. Authors presenting on 16 April are requested to leave their posters up for viewing until the end of the Keynote Reception (8 p.m.). Presenters on 17 April should take down their posters by 5:30 p.m.
Theme Sessions
T2. Fossil Insights into Paleoclimatic and Paleoenvironmental Change.
Cosponsored by GSA Limnogeology Division; GSA Sedimentary Geology Division.
Aaron R. Wood, Iowa State Univ.; Natalie Thompson, Iowa State Univ.
T3. Climate Reconstructions from Cave Deposits.
Cosponsored by GSA Karst Division; GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division.
Rhawn Denniston, Cornell College; Jeffrey Dorale, Univ. of Iowa.
T4. Landlocked but Not Left Out: Contributions to Oceanography by Mid-Continent Scientists.
Cosponsored by GSA Sedimentary Geology Division; GSA Geobiology and Geomicrobiology Division; GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division; GSA Environmental and Engineering Geology Division.
Beth E. Caissie, Iowa State Univ.; Sally Zellers, Univ. of Central Missouri; Anna Nesterovich, Iowa State Univ.; Nina Whitney, Iowa State Univ.
T6. Assessing Groundwater in the Midwestern U.S. - How Much, How Good, and for How Long?
Cosponsored by GSA Hydrogeology Division; National Ground Water Association; Iowa Groundwater Association.
Bob Libra; Michael Anderson, Iowa Department of Natural Resources.
T7. Agricultural Impacts on Hydrology and Water Quality in the Midwest.
Cosponsored by GSA Hydrogeology Division; GSA Limnogeology Division; GSA Geology and Society Division; National Ground Water Association; Iowa Groundwater Association.
William Simpkins, Iowa State Univ.; Michael Burkart, USDA-ARS (retired); Nathan Young, Iowa State Univ.
T9. Pathogens and Other Contaminants of Concern in the Environment.
Cosponsored by GSA Hydrogeology Division; GSA Geology and Health Division; GSA Environmental and Engineering Geology Division; National Ground Water Association; Iowa Groundwater Association.
Claire Hruby, Iowa Department of Natural Resources; Sarah Elliott, U.S. Geological Survey.
T10. Natural Contaminants in Groundwater Drinking Water Sources: When Natural Doesn’t Mean Healthy.
Cosponsored by GSA Hydrogeology Division; GSA Geology and Health Division; GSA Geology and Society Division; National Ground Water Association; Iowa Groundwater Association.
Melinda L. Erickson, U.S. Geological Survey; Paul Stackelberg, U.S. Geological Survey; Brandy Toner, Univ. of Minnesota.
T11. Biogeochemistry of Water, Sediments, and Interfaces.
Cosponsored by GSA Limnology Division; GSA Geobiology and Geomicrobiology Division; GSA Hydrogeology Division; GSA Sedimentary Geology Division.
Elizabeth Swanner, Iowa State Univ.; Chad Wittkop, Minnesota State Univ.-Mankato; Amy Myrbo, Univ. of Minnesota, LacCore.
T16. Applied Geology: Environmental, Engineering, Hydro, Geotechnical and Exploration Geophysics.
Cosponsored by GSA Engineering and Environmental Geology Division; GSA Hydrogeology Division; GSA Geophysics and Geodynamics Division.
Terry R. West, Purdue Univ.
T19. Eolian Systems of the Midcontinent.
Cosponsored by GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division; GSA Sedimentary Geology Division; GSA Soils and Soil Processes Interdisciplinary Interest Group.
Joe Mason, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison; Paul Hanson, Univ. of Nebraska Lincoln; Peter Jacobs, Univ. of Wisconsin-Whitewater.
T20. Slope Stability in the Midwest.
Cosponsored by GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division; GSA Environmental and Engineering Geology Division.
Lucas Zoet, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison; Carrie Jennings, The Freshwater Society.
T21. Sediments, Landforms, and Chronology of the Laurentide Ice Sheet: Analog or Anomaly?
Cosponsored by GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division; GSA Sedimentary Geology Division.
Neal Iverson, Iowa State Univ.; Lucas Zoet, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison; Carrie Jennings, The Freshwater Society.
T23. Reconstructing Glacial Lakes in the Midwest and Great Lakes Regions II: Chronology.
Cosponsored by GSA Limnogeology Division; GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division; GSA Sedimentary Geology Division.
Kenneth E. Lepper, North Dakota State Univ.; Timothy G. Fisher, Univ. of Toledo.
T24. Geophysics in Glacial Landscapes: Methods, Applications and Innovations.
Cosponsored by GSA Hydrogeology Division; GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division; GSA Geophysics and Geodynamics Division.
Jason Thomason, Illinois State Geological Survey; Luke Zoet, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison.
T26. GIS Applications and Analysis in the Geosciences.
Cosponsored by GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division.
Stephen Crabtree, Univ. of Minnesota Morris; Chris Harding, Iowa State Univ.
T29. Structural Geology and Tectonics in a Quantitative World.
Cosponsored by GSA Structural Geology and Tectonics Division.
Jacqueline Reber, Iowa State Univ.; Sven Morgan, Iowa State Univ.
T30. Compelling Cores from the North-Central Section: A Core-Poster Session.
Cosponsored by GSA Sedimentary Geology Division.
Franek Hasiuk, Iowa State Univ; Ryan Clark, Iowa Geological Survey.
T31. Economic Geology, Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology, Mineralogy.
Cosponsored by GSA Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Petrology and Volcanology Division.
Paul G. Spry, Iowa State Univ; Kevin L. Shelton, Univ. of Missouri-Columbia.
T32. Geoscience in the Southeastern South Dakota, Southwestern Minnesota, Northeastern Nebraska, and Northwestern Iowa Area.
Sarah Chadima, South Dakota Geological Survey; George Shurr, GeoShurr Resources; Richard Hammond, Heine Electric & Irrigation.
T33. Collaborative Learning in Geoscience Classrooms and Labs: Examples, Demonstrations, Best Practices, and Assessment.
Cosponsored by GSA Geoscience Education Division.
Cinzia Cervato, Iowa State Univ.; Charles Kerton, Iowa State Univ.; Theresa Halligan, Iowa State Univ.
T35. Geoscience Outreach and Engagement.
Cosponsored by the Geological Outreach at Museums, Parks, & Surveys Group; GSA Geoscience Education Division.
Lisa Anderson, Michigan State Univ. Extension; Peter Voice, Western Michigan Univ.
T36. Undergraduate Research Poster Session.
Cosponsored by the Geosciences Division–Council on Undergraduate Research.
Robert D. Shuster, Univ. of Nebraska.
T37. Current Developments in Paleozoic and Early Mesozoic Conodont Biostratigraphy, Systematics, and Paleoecology: The 51st Pander Society Symposium.
Cosponsored by GSA Sedimentary Geology Division.
James (Jed) Day, Illinois State Univ.; Jeffrey Over, SUNY Geneseo.
T38. Twenty-First Century Aggregates.
Cosponsored by GSA Sedimentary Geology Division.
Franciszek Hasiuk, Iowa State University; Ryan Clark, Iowa Geological Survey. See associated Field Trip.
T39. Fluvial Adjustments in the Highly-Altered Agricultural Landscape of the Postglacial Upper Midwest.
Cosponsored by GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division; GSA Sedimentary Geology Division.
John Thomas, Hungry Canyons Alliance; Peter Moore, Iowa State University.