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Tips and Techniques in Dynamic Content

Short Course 518 · Saturday, 3 November · 1−5 p.m. · 2018 GSA Annual Meeting

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GSA’s Geosphere  offers just the right platform for publishing animations and other interactive figures and supplemental files.

Join instructors Craig Jones (University of Colorado) and Shan de Silva (Oregon State University) for a fun and informative course on simple, accessible ways to make your data more dynamic and interactive.

For new and experienced authors! Draw readers in with easy-to-create interactive visualizations. Learn how to spruce up your papers and more effectively communicate your complex data through animations, movies, and more. Take advantage of all that current technology has to offer. Participate in discussions of more advanced techniques and what cutting-edge publications should offer to authors and readers.

See published examples of dynamic content that can be embedded directly in your paper:

Layered/interactive PDF file:

• Best, M.G., Christiansen, E.H., de Silva, S., and Lipman, P.W., 2016, Slab-rollback ignimbrite flareups in the southern Great Basin and other Cenozoic American arcs: A distinct style of arc volcanism: Geosphere, v. 12, no. 4, p. 1097–1135, https://doi.org/10.1130/GES01285.1.
• Jha, S., Harry, D.L., and Schutt, D.L., 2017, Toolbox for Analysis of Flexural Isostasy (TAFI)—A MATLAB toolbox for modeling flexural deformation of the lithosphere: Geosphere, v. 13, no. 5, p. 1555–1565, https://doi.org/10.1130/GES01421.1.
• Kern, J.M., de Silva, S.L., Schmitt, A.K., Kaiser, J.F., Iriarte, A.R., and Economos, R., 2016, Geochronological imaging of an episodically constructed subvolcanic batholith: U-Pb in zircon chronochemistry of the Altiplano-Puna Volcanic Complex of the Central Andes: Geosphere, v. 12, no. 4, p. 1054–1077, https://doi.org/10.1130/GES01258.1.

3-D figure:

• Squelch, A., 2018, 3D printing rocks for geo-educational, technical, and hobbyist pursuits: Geosphere, v. 14, no. 1, p. 360–366, https://doi.org/10.1130/GES01364.1.

Animation:

• Camp, E., and Jordan, T., 2017, Feasibility study of repurposing Trenton–Black River gas fields for geothermal heat extraction, southern New York: Geosphere, v. 13, no. 1, p. 22–35, https://doi.org/10.1130/GES01230.1.