The Cordilleran Section
Connect with GSA members across western North America in Alaska, western Canada, the U.S. Pacific Coast, and Mexico’s Cordillera.
15–18 April 2027 Pasadena, California, USA
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Section Officers
2025–2026
Terms: Chair—1 year; Vice-Chair—1 year; Secretary—4 years
Management Board
Includes the Section officers, the Section chair for the preceding year, and two voting members of GSA, one selected by the Seismological Society of America, and one by the Pacific Coast Section of the Paleontological Society to serve as councilors for one year.
Cordilleran Region
In the United States:
The states of Alaska, California, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, and that part of Arizona south of 35 degrees North Latitude.
In Canada:
The Province of British Columbia, the Yukon Territory, the Northwest Territories, and the Nunavut Territory.
In Mexico:
The Distrito Federal and the states of Aguascalientes, Baja California, Baja California Sur, Chiapas, Colima, Durango, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico State, Michoacan, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tlaxcala, and Zacatecas.
Membership:
4,295 voting members of the Section as of 31 December 2025.
Background
The Cordilleran Section is the oldest of GSA's sections. It was formally approved on 26 August 1901, when the Society itself was only 13 years old. The first organizational meeting of the Section, held in Berkeley, California, in 1899, included the presentation of 11 scientific papers.
