New This Week

Members of the media are invited to attend and cover science at GSA’s Annual Meeting & Exposition, 22-25 October 2017 in Seattle, Washington.

GSA Welcomes Continental Scientific Drilling Community
Release no. 17-36, 18 July 2017
Geological Society of America Honors Excellence in Geoscience for 2017
Release no. 17-35, 6 July 2017
New Officers Take the Helm for The Geological Society of America
Release no. 17-34, 30 June 2017
Geology Rocks the Pacific Northwest: GSA Meeting Returns to Seattle
Release no. 17-33, 22 June 2017
New Map Highlights Sinking Louisiana Coast
Release no. 17-32, 14 June 2017
Charred Flowers and the Fossil Record
Release no. 17-31, 12 June 2017

GSA Bulletin science by K. Williscroft and colleagues, "Extensive Cretaceous methane seepage, Ellef Ringnes Island, Canadian High Arctic," is covered by the Washington Post.
The GSA Today Groundwork article by Jaap H. Nienhuis and colleagues, "A New Subsidence Map for Louisiana," published online ahead of print, received heavy news coverage, including articles in Yahoo! News, UPI, Time Magazine, the Boston Globe, The Times-Picayune, and LiveScience.
Geology science by David S. Jones and colleagues, "A volcanic trigger for the Late Ordovician mass extinction? Mercury data from south China and Laurentia," is covered by the BBC, The International Business Times, and Yahoo! News.
Geology science by Thomas A. Hegna and colleagues, "Pyritized in situ trilobite eggs from the Ordovician of New York (Lorraine Group): Implications for trilobite reproductive biology," is covered in EARTH (p. 21 of the May/June 2017 issue).