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Disciplines: Geoscience Education, Geoscience Information/ activities that will benefit society on both global and local levels.
Communication, Geoscience and Public Policy It will highlight existing activities that scientific organizations are
Convenors: Gregory R. Wessel; Rudy Schuster; Chloe Hill; coordinating, how scientists can get involved with them, and how
Nina Burkhardt they can be replicated or expanded. It will also address systemic
The critical role that geoscience plays in advancing society is issues that prevent these initiatives from being as effective as they
increasingly apparent to scientists, geoscience organizations, and can, such as funding and communication challenges, and illustrate
the public. This session aims to highlight how we, as a scientific the benefits of co-creation.
community, can facilitate engagement and interdisciplinary

Discipline Sessions

In addition to topical sessions, GSA offers vibrant discipline sessions. Discipline sessions are an essential
addition to the fulfillment of the overall meeting. We will have technical sessions that relate to recent advances in:

• Continental Scientific Drilling • Marine/Coastal Science
• Economic Geology • Mineralogy/Crystallography
• Energy Geology • Paleoclimatology/Paleoceanography
• Engineering Geology • Paleontology, Biogeography/Biostratigraphy
• Environmental Geoscience • Paleontology, Diversity, Extinction, Origination
• Geoarchaeology • Paleontology, Paleoecology/Taphonomy
• Geochemistry • Paleontology, Phylogenetic/Morphological Patterns
• Geochronology • Petrology, Igneous
• Geoinformatics • Petrology, Metamorphic
• Geology and Health • Planetary Geology
• Geomicrobiology • Precambrian Geology
• Geomorphology • Quaternary Geology
• Geophysics/Geodynamics • Sediments, Carbonates
• Geoscience Education • Sediments, Clastic
• Geoscience Information/Communication • Soils
• Geoscience and Public Policy • Stratigraphy
• History and Philosophy of Geology • Structural Geology
• Hydrogeology • Tectonics/Tectonophysics
• Karst • Volcanology
• Limnogeology

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