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Deadline: 11:59 p.m. MDT on 6 Sept. STUDENT VOLUNTEERS
Cancelation deadline: 11:59 p.m. MDT on 12 Sept. The Student Volunteer Program will open in late July. Earn com-
community.geosociety.org/gsa2022/registration plimentary registration when you volunteer to work for at least ten
hours, plus get an insider’s view of the meeting. Please wait until
STUDENT/ECP TRAVEL GRANTS you sign up as a volunteer to register for the meeting, unless you
You still have time to apply for grants. Various groups are want to reserve a space in a field trip or short course. Details are
offering grants to help defray your costs for registration, field on the GSA Connects 2022 website at community.geosociety .org/
trips, travel, etc., for GSA Connects 2022. Check the website gsa2022/registration/volunteers.
at community.geosociety.org/gsa2022/connect/student-ecp/
travel-grants for application and deadline information. Note:
Eligibility criteria and deadline dates vary by grant. The dead-
line to apply for the GSA Student Travel Grant is 6 Sept.

2022 Michel T. Halbouty Distinguished Lecture

Jani Ingram, “Environmental Health mines on the Navajo reservation have left a legacy of contamina-
Investigations on the Navajo Nation” tion that infiltrates all aspects of life on the reservation. Uranium
is a known toxicant due to its properties as a heavy metal, and ura-
Tues., 11 Oct., 12:15–1:15 p.m. nium mining has been suggested to exacerbate exposure to other
elemental toxicants, such as arsenic. Current understanding of the
During the mid-1900s, the United States extent of contamination on the Navajo lands is ill-defined. Our
was locked in a nuclear arms race with the research team seeks to elucidate exposure to these toxicants
former Soviet Union in an era known as through quantifying uranium and other toxic elemental contami-
the Cold War. In order to meet demands, nants in environmental samples including water, soil, plants, and
uranium mines were dug across the Navajo sheep, so as to understand the nature of exposure. Collected data
reservation in the U.S. Southwest. Although the Cold War offi- is used to usher change to environmental public policies on the
cially ended in 1989 with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the disso- reservation and to increase saliency of the issue through commu-
lution of the Soviet Union in 1991, these abandoned uranium nity meetings.

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