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GSA 2019 Annual Meeting & Exposition Wrap-Up

To all the attendees, sponsors, Scientific Divisions, Associated In case you missed these talks at GSA 2019, we’ve saved them
Societies, invited guests, speakers, awardees, and exhibitors, online for you!
I extend a sincere thank you for a job well done at the 2019 GSA GSA Presidential Address and Awards Ceremony:
Annual Meeting and Exhibition in Phoenix, Arizona, USA. It was https://livestream.com/accounts/7595903/events/8768783
a great meeting with impressive science, compelling speakers and
stimulating special sessions, plenty of networking, and fun. Join Late-Breaking Session: Ten-Million Years of Deformation along the
me in thanking the local planning committee and all the volun- Eastern California Shear Zone: Context and Characterization of the
teers who make this happen. Let’s do it again in 2020 by propos- July 2019 M W7.1 Ridgecrest Earthquake: https://livestream.com/
ing a session, a Pardee Symposium, or a Short Course or by pre- accounts/7595903/events/8768809
senting your science during the meeting. See you in Montréal!”
P2. Grand Ideas, Grand Events: Geoscience Research, Geoscience
—Vicki S. McConnell, GSA Executive Director Education, and Human Connections to Grand Canyon at its Six
Millionth, 150th, and 100th Anniversaries: https://livestream.com/
accounts/7595903/events/8768814
By the Numbers
Attendees: 5,519 Feed Your Brain: Scott W. Tinker, “Switch is Back! Energy
Professionals: 2,514 Poverty, the Energy Transition, and Modern Energy Education”:
Early Career Professionals: 502 https://livestream.com/accounts/7595903/events/8768816
Students: 2,014
K–12 Teachers: 61 P3. Geoscience Communication in the Modern Age:
Mentors: 121 https://livestream.com/accounts/7595903/events/8768819
On To the Future Scholars: 75
Countries Represented: 44 P4. Fostering an Inclusive Academic Culture for the 21st Century:
Abstracts Presented: 3,654 (2,228 orals; 1,426 posters) Advancing Policies, Departments, and Supporting Faculty to Address
Short Courses: 19, with 391 participants the Needs and Challenges for Building a Healthy Geoscience
Field Trips: 23, with 499 participants Enterprise: https://livestream.com/accounts/7595903/
Companies Exhibiting: 207 events/8768822

Feed Your Brain: Katharine Hayhoe, 2019 Michel T. Halbouty
Distinguished Lecturer, “Climate Change: The Threat Multiplier”:
https://livestream.com/accounts/7595903/events/8768826

P5. Extreme Impacts of Global Climate Change: Effective
Communication for Geoscientists, Educators, Policy Makers, and the
Press: https://livestream.com/accounts/7595903/events/8768829

P6. Understanding the Neoproterozoic Earth-Life System:
https://livestream.com/accounts/7595903/events/8768832

Feed Your Brain: Meghan Kish, “Your Park. Your Science.
Our Future: Inspiring Geoscience and Other STEM Careers
via Collaboration with the NPS”: https://livestream.com/
accounts/7595903/events/8768833