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GSA CONNECTS 2021
Pardee Keynote Symposia

Pardee Keynote Symposia are named in recent developments in our understanding of the dynamics of these
honor of GSA Fellow and benefactor Joseph systems and identify key remaining questions.
Thomas Pardee (1871–1960) via a bequest
from Mary Pardee Kelly. Pardee is best known P3. Geoheritage: Celebrating Our Past, Protecting
for his work on Glacial Lake Missoula. These Our Future
symposia consist of invited presentations Endorsers: GSA History and Philosophy of Geology Division; GSA
covering a broad range of topics. Geology and Health Division; GSA Geology and Society Division;
GSA Geoscience Education Division; Association of American State
Joseph Thomas Pardee Geologists; History of Earth Sciences Society; National Association
(1871–1960)
of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT); GSA Soils and Soil Processes
P1. Linking Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion to the Division; GSA Marine and Coastal Geosciences Division; GSA
Climate Crisis: Inclusive Leadership and Practice Limnogeology Division
in Geoscience Disciplines: History and Philosophy of Geology, Geoscience and
Endorsers: GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Public Policy, Geoscience Education
Division; GSA Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Petrology, and Convenors: Renee Clary; William Andrews; David Mogk;
Volcanology Division; GSA Soils and Soil Processes Division; GSA Steven Semken
Geochronology Division; GSA Marine and Coastal Geosciences Geoheritage impacts our professional, public, and personal lives.
Division; GSA Geoscience Education Division; GSA Environmental Your voices and perspectives ARE important. Join us for awareness
and Engineering Geology Division; GSA Geochronology Division; of the importance of geoheritage to the ongoing health of our profes-
GSA Geology and Society Division; GSA Limnogeology Division sion, and the empowerment to recognize, conserve, and sustain the
Disciplines: Geoscience and Public Policy, Geology and Health, landscapes that impact our lives.
Geoscience Information/Communication
Convenors: Jennifer L. Pierce; Stephanie Shepherd; Nick Sutfin; P4. Planetary Habitability: 2020 Randolph W. “Bill”
Nancy F. Glenn and Cecile T. Bromery Awardee
Geoscience needs a tectonic-scale change; we are the least diverse Endorsers: GSA Planetary Geology Division; GSA Geobiology
of all STEM fields. Our planet faces a climate crisis that dispropor- and Geomicrobiology Division; Geochemical Society; GSA Marine
tionately affects people of color and disadvantaged populations. and Coastal Geosciences Division; GSA Limnogeology Division
How can our discipline promote educational awareness and diverse Disciplines: Planetary Geology, Geomicrobiology
leadership opportunities to tackle these two separate but related Convenor: Martha Gilmore
challenges? We encourage submissions that address the following: What are the conditions that create and maintain a habitable
What can geoscientists do to increase diversity, equity, and inclu- planet? Are Mars, Europa, Titan, Venus, and scores of exoplanets
sion (DEI) at personal, departmental, institutional, and organiza- habitable now or in the past? This Pardee Symposium consists of
tional levels? How can we effectively understand and address talks and a panel discussion that highlight the state of our under-
climate and environmental justice in research, the field, and the standing of the conditions of planetary habitability as we prepare
classroom? How does increasing diversity in the geosciences for new missions to examine potentially habitable worlds. We hope
promote more equitable solutions to environmental challenges? that this will offer an opportunity for all to see how geoscientists,
including perhaps their own work, might be important to advance
P2. Cordilleran Subduction Zones: Dynamics of Plate our knowledge in this critical area.
Deformation from Megathrust to Mountain Building
Endorsers: GSA International; GSA Geophysics and Geodynamics P5. Geoscience and Society: Action and Interdisci-
Division; GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division; plinary Engagement on Local and Global Scales
GSA Structural Geology and Tectonics Division; GSA Marine and Endorsers: GSA Geology and Society Division; GSA
Coastal Geosciences Division International; GSA Geology and Public Policy Committee;
Disciplines: Tectonics/Tectonophysics, Geophysics/Geodynamics, European Geosciences Union; American Geophysical Union;
Geomorphology Geological Survey of Sweden; The Global Network for
Convenors: Eric Kirby; Daniel Stockli; Kevin P. Furlong Geoscience and Society; Geology in the Public Interest;
Plate convergence along the western margin of the Americas Geology for Global Development; Department of Geology and
occurs along an exceptional network of subduction zones. Lateral Environmental Science, Wheaton College; Clean Water Institute,
variations in the geometry and characteristics of subducting slabs Calvin University; Department of Geology, San Jose State
and overriding plates affords an opportunity to address fundamental University; Department of Geological & Mining Engineering &
questions regarding the mechanics of great earthquakes, the nature of Sciences, Michigan Technological University; Department of
transient and permanent strain, and the relative roles of crustal defor- Earth, Environmental and Resource Sciences, The University of
mation and mantle buoyancy generating forearc topography. This Texas at El Paso; GSA Soils and Soil Processes Division; GSA
symposium will feature a diverse group of international researchers Environmental and Engineering Geology Division; GSA Marine
with expertise on subduction zones from Alaska to Chile to showcase and Coastal Geosciences Division; GSA Limnogeology Division

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