GSA Connects 2026 Recordings Now Available

Boulder, Colorado, USA: The Geological Society of America (GSA) is pleased to announce that key recordings from its annual GSA Connects meeting, held 11–14 October 2026 in Denver, Colorado, are now available online.

GSA Connects 2026 brought together thousands of geoscientists to share groundbreaking research, exchange ideas, and explore some of the most pressing challenges facing our planet. Now, journalists interested in the latest developments across the geosciences can revisit recordings from the meeting.

The available recordings are:

• Presidential Address & Awards Ceremony: GSA President Glenn Thackray and Executive Director and CEO Bridgette Moore (Sunday, 11 October)
• Pardee Symposium: Comparing Approaches of Tectonic Reconstruction—Bottoms Up: Perspectives from “bottom-up” and “top-down” approaches to tectonic reconstructions (Sunday, 11 October)
• Noontime Lecture: Kelsey Young, Artemis II to the Moon and Back: The First Step in a New Era of Crewed Scientific Exploration (Monday, 12 October)
• Pardee Keynote Symposium: AI and Predictive Groundwater—From Deep Earth to Digital Twins: Artificial Intelligence and Predictive Groundwater in Earth System Science (Monday 12 October)
• Pardee Keynote Symposium: Geoheritage in a World of Resource Extraction, Part 1—Geoheritage Values in a World of Resource Extraction: Sharing Domestic, International and Indigenous Perspectives (Monday, 12 October)
• Noontime Lecture: Marilyn Russell and Sabrina Kainz, Connecting People to Place: A Community Engagement Model for Advancing Geoheritage Stewardship (Tuesday, 13 October)
• Pardee Keynote Symposium: Geoheritage in a World of Resource Extraction, Part II—Geoheritage Values in a World of Resource Extraction: Sharing Domestic, International and Indigenous Perspectives (Tuesday, 13 October)
• Pardee Keynote Symposium: Mineral Resources and Society (Wednesday, 14 October)
• Halbouty Distinguished Lecture with Paul Doss, Geologists in the Critical Zone...in a Critical Time (Wednesday, 14 October)

Explore all of the recordings here. Learn more about the lectures here.

The Geological Society of America (GSA) is a global professional society with more than 18,000 members across over 100 countries. As a leading voice for the geosciences, GSA advances the understanding of Earth's dynamic processes and fosters collaboration among scientists, educators, and policymakers. GSA publishes Geology, the top-ranked geology journal, along with a diverse portfolio of scholarly journals, books, and conference proceedings—several of which rank among Amazon’s top 100 best-selling geology titles.

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