Abstract deadline: 11:59 PM Pacific Time, 17 December 2024.
T1. Paleozoic Vertebrate Evolution, Diversity, and Phylogeny
Charles N. Ciampaglio, Wright State Univ. - Lake Campus, Celina, OH; Daniel Cline, Wright State Univ., Lake Campus, Celina, OH and Ryan C. Shell, Cincinnati Museum Center, Cincinnati, OH
Session Description: This technical session will highlight new research into the fossil record of Paleozoic vertebrate taxa from the North-Central and Northeastern North America. This includes the evolution, diversity, phylogeny, and taphonomy of Paleozoic fossil vertebrates.
T2. Undergraduate Research Poster Session I
Jeffrey Strasser, Augustana College, Rock Island, IL and Robert Shuster, Univ. of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, NE
Session Description: This poster session will highlight research conducted by undergraduate students. All abstracts must be written by the student or students and may have non-student co-authors (although students must present the poster). Topics may include undergraduate research in any discipline of geology or related fields (such as water resources, hydrology, environmental science, or physical geography).
T2. Undergraduate Research Poster Session II
Jeffrey Strasser, Augustana College, Rock Island, IL and Robert Shuster, Univ. of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, NE
Session Description: This poster session will highlight research conducted by undergraduate students. All abstracts must be written by the student or students and may have non-student co-authors (although students must present the poster). Topics may include undergraduate research in any discipline of geology or related fields (such as water resources, hydrology, environmental science, or physical geography).
T4. Bio-landscaping: Advancing Ichnological and Biogeomorpological Research
Ilya V. Buynevich, Temple Univ., Philadelphia, PA and Stephen Hasiotis, Temple Univ., Philadelphia, PA
Session Description: Since life on Earth began, numerous extinct and extant taxa have left their mark on sediments and landforms, from the abyss to the mountaintops. This session focuses on advances in ichnology and zoogeomorphology, including traces left by humans. Contributions from field-based, experimental, and numerical modeling studies are welcome.
T4. Bio-landscaping: Advancing Ichnological and Biogeomorpological Research (Posters)
Ilya V. Buynevich, Temple Univ., Philadelphia, PA and Stephen Hasiotis, Temple Univ., Philadelphia, PA
Session Description: Since life on Earth began, numerous extinct and extant taxa have left their mark on sediments and landforms, from the abyss to the mountaintops. This session focuses on advances in ichnology and zoogeomorphology, including traces left by humans. Contributions from field-based, experimental, and numerical modeling studies are welcome.
T5. Geological Connections to Northeast Ohio: Sedimentary, Environmental, and Cultural Aspects of NE Ohio Geology
Don Hilton, Northern Ohio Geological Society, Kent, OH and Joseph Hannibal, Univ. of Akron, Akron, OH
Session Description: Presentations in this wide-ranging session may include talks on bedrock and glacial geology, environmental problems, and aspects of the cultural geology of Northeastern Ohio and close-by areas of Western Pennsylvania.
T6. Back to the Devonian: Revisiting Milestones of Paleontology and Stratigraphy from 1985
Andrew Bush, Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs, CT; Jeffrey Over, SUNY-Geneseo, Geneseo, NY and James Zambito IV, Beloit College, Beloit, WI
Session Description: 2025 marks the 40th anniversary of numerous seminal publications on Devonian paleontology and stratigraphy, including works on the Catskill Delta, global eustatic fluctuations, and biotic events. This session will serve as a forum to review, discuss, and evaluate the impact of and progress from these foundational studies.
T6. Back to the Devonian: Revisiting Milestones of Paleontology and Stratigraphy from 1985 (Posters)
Andrew Bush, Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs, CT; Jeffrey Over, SUNY-Geneseo, Geneseo, NY and James Zambito IV, Beloit College, Beloit, WI
Session Description: 2025 marks the 40th anniversary of numerous seminal publications on Devonian paleontology and stratigraphy, including works on the Catskill Delta, global eustatic fluctuations, and biotic events. This session will serve as a forum to review, discuss, and evaluate the impact of and progress from these foundational studies.
T7. Outer Space Rocks! Enhancing the Understanding of our Planetary Neighbors
Nicholas Patrick Lang, Planetary Science Division, Washington, DC; Jennifer L. Piatek, Central Connecticut State Univ., New Britain, CT; Heidi Krauss, Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI; Allison Pease, Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI and Hee Choi, Pennsylvania State Univ., Univ. Park, PA
Session Description: This session is meant for all topics that touch on planetary science including, but not limited to, geomorphology of planetary surfaces, geochemistry, astrobiology, and outreach and education.
T8. Paleolimnological Records of Climate and Environmental Change
Tim Cook, Univ. of Massachusetts-Amherst, Amherst, MA and Nicholas Balascio, Bates College, Lewiston, ME
Session Description: This session will focus on research that uses lacustrine records to reconstruct diverse aspects of past environmental change, including climate, ecological transitions, natural disturbances, and anthropogenic land use. Timescales of interest can range from single events to millennial-scale variability.
T8. Paleolimnological Records of Climate and Environmental Change (Posters)
Tim Cook, Univ. of Massachusetts-Amherst, Amherst, MA and Nicholas Balascio, Bates College, Lewiston, ME
Session Description: This session will focus on research that uses lacustrine records to reconstruct diverse aspects of past environmental change, including climate, ecological transitions, natural disturbances, and anthropogenic land use. Timescales of interest can range from single events to millennial-scale variability.
T9. Tectonic Processes in the Circum-Atlantic Orogens I: A Celebration of the Career of Rob Strachan
J. Brendan Murphy, St. Francis Xavier Univ., Antigonish, NS, Canada; R. Nance, Ohio Univ., Athens, OH and Stephen Johnston, Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Session Description: This session celebrates the distinguished career of Professor Robin A. Strachan (current editor, Geology; past editor, GSA Bulletin). In accord with Rob’s many significant contributions, we solicit presentations from field geology to laboratory techniques that have provided insights into the tectonic processes involved in the evolution of the circum-Atlantic orogens.
T9. Tectonic Processes in the Circum-Atlantic Orogens II: A Celebration of the Career of Rob Strachan
J. Brendan Murphy, St. Francis Xavier Univ., Antigonish, NS, Canada; R. Nance, Ohio Univ., Athens, OH and Stephen Johnston, Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Session Description: This session celebrates the distinguished career of Professor Robin A. Strachan (current editor, Geology; past editor, GSA Bulletin). In accord with Rob’s many significant contributions, we solicit presentations from field geology to laboratory techniques that have provided insights into the tectonic processes involved in the evolution of the circum-Atlantic orogens.
T11. Quantitative and Specimen-Based Approaches to Address Big Paleontology Questions
Margaret Yacobucci, Bowling Green State Univ., Bowling Green, OH
Session Description: Presenters in this session will share their research harnessing quantitative and/or specimen-rich datasets and methodologies to explore big picture questions in paleobiology, paleoecology, and the history of life within an evolving Earth system.
T12. Undergraduate and Graduate Geoscience Student Showcase (Lightning Talks)
Claire McLeod, Miami Univ., Oxford, OH and Ken Brown, DePauw Univ., Greencastle, IN
Session Description: This session will highlight research from students in a hybrid oral-poster format. Although presenters will submit only one abstract for this session, they will prepare two presentations (i.e., a three-minute lightning talk in the morning session; a poster for the afternoon session). This will offer student presenters with multiple opportunities to practice a variety of science communication techniques.
T12. Undergraduate and Graduate Geoscience Student Showcase (Posters)
Claire McLeod, Miami Univ., Oxford, OH and Ken Brown, DePauw Univ., Greencastle, IN
Session Description: This session will highlight research from students in a hybrid oral-poster format. Although presenters will submit only one abstract for this session, they will prepare two presentations (i.e., a three-minute lightning talk in the morning session; a poster for the afternoon session). This will offer student presenters with multiple opportunities to practice a variety of science communication techniques.
T13. Reconstructing Environmental Change from Marine, Lacustrine, and Terrestrial Sedimentary Records
Stefanie Brachfeld, Montclair State Univ., Montclair, NJ; Olga Libman-Roshal, Montclair State Univ., Montclair, NJ and Kurt Lindberg, Univ. at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
Session Description: Sedimentary archives from the ocean, modern and ancient lakes, glacial deposits, and soil sequences allow for reconstructions of natural and anthropogenic processes and environmental impacts and inform climate models. We invite contributions that address Earth systems science and history, proxy and chronology development, and modeling results based on sedimentary archives.
T13. Reconstructing Environmental Change from Marine, Lacustrine, and Terrestrial Sedimentary Records (Posters)
Stefanie Brachfeld, Montclair State Univ., Montclair, NJ; Olga Libman-Roshal, Montclair State Univ., Montclair, NJ and Kurt Lindberg, Univ. at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
Session Description: Sedimentary archives from the ocean, modern and ancient lakes, glacial deposits, and soil sequences allow for reconstructions of natural and anthropogenic processes and environmental impacts and inform climate models. We invite contributions that address Earth systems science and history, proxy and chronology development, and modeling results based on sedimentary archives.
T14. Petrotectonic Processes in Convergent Margins: Insights from Laurentia and Beyond
Wentao Cao, State Univ. of New York at Fredonia, Fredonia, NY; Emily Walsh, Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, IA; William Peck, Colgate Univ., Hamilton, NY and Charlotte Connop, Pennsylvania State Univ., Univ. Park, PA
Session Description: This session welcomes submissions examining petrological and tectonic processes in current and ancient convergent margins in Laurentia and beyond through field observation and laboratory approaches including but not limited to geochemical, geochronological, modeling, theoretical, and experimental techniques.
T14. Petrotectonic Processes in Convergent Margins: Insights from Laurentia and Beyond (Posters)
Wentao Cao, State Univ. of New York at Fredonia, Fredonia, NY; Emily Walsh, Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, IA; William Peck, Colgate Univ., Hamilton, NY and Charlotte Connop, Pennsylvania State Univ., Univ. Park, PA
Session Description: This session welcomes submissions examining petrological and tectonic processes in current and ancient convergent margins in Laurentia and beyond through field observation and laboratory approaches including but not limited to geochemical, geochronological, modeling, theoretical, and experimental techniques.
T15. Fluvial Geomorphology of Post-glacial (and Other) Rivers
Karen Gran, Univ. of Minnesota - Duluth, Duluth, ND; Amanda Henck Schmidt, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH; Peter Moore, Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA and Douglas Thompson, Connecticut College, New London, CT
Session Description: Continental glaciation impacted many river systems across the region both through the glacial sediments they erode and through changes in base level associated with post-glacial lake drainage, isostatic adjustments, or other post-glacial perturbations. This session focuses on post-glacial fluvial systems, although we welcome any river-related research.
T15. Fluvial Geomorphology of Post-glacial (and Other) Rivers (Posters)
Karen Gran, Univ. of Minnesota - Duluth, Duluth, ND; Amanda Henck Schmidt, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH; Peter Moore, Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA and Douglas Thompson, Connecticut College, New London, CT
Session Description: Continental glaciation impacted many river systems across the region both through the glacial sediments they erode and through changes in base level associated with post-glacial lake drainage, isostatic adjustments, or other post-glacial perturbations. This session focuses on post-glacial fluvial systems, although we welcome any river-related research.
T16. Multidisciplinary Insights from Field and Laboratory Data on Modern and Ancient Plate Margin Processes
Katherine Fornash, Ohio Univ., Athens, OH and Erkan Toraman, Salem State Univ., Salem, MA
Session Description: Plate margins are the locus of planetary-scale geochemical cycles and the structures and metamorphic, igneous, and sedimentary rocks associated with them record information about their origins and evolution. We welcome contributions utilizing geochemical, geochronologic, petrologic, structural, and/or geophysical investigations at the micro-to-macro-scale to unravel processes and conditions along plate margins.
T17. Groundwater Mapping and Monitoring
Keith Schilling, IIHR - Hydroscience & Engineering, The Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA and Steve Domber, New Jersey Geological Survey, Ewing Township, NJ
Session Description: Groundwater is one of our Nation's most precious natural resources, but it is threatened by overuse, contamination and future climate change. In this session, presentations will focus on aquifer mapping studies, groundwater budgets, vulnerability assessments and monitoring and remediating groundwater quality from nonpoint and point source pollution.
T17. Groundwater Mapping and Monitoring (Posters)
Keith Schilling, IIHR - Hydroscience & Engineering, The Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA and Steve Domber, New Jersey Geological Survey, Ewing Township, NJ
Session Description: Groundwater is one of our Nation's most precious natural resources, but it is threatened by overuse, contamination and future climate change. In this session, presentations will focus on aquifer mapping studies, groundwater budgets, vulnerability assessments and monitoring and remediating groundwater quality from nonpoint and point source pollution.
T18. Mapping in the Geosciences: Processes and Products
Greg J. Walsh, U.S. Geological Survey, Montpelier, VT; David R. Soller, National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program, Reston, VA and Kyle Rybacki, Ph.D., Bureau of Geological Survey, Middletown, PA
Session Description: This session creates an opportunity for researchers to share geoscience maps and mapping techniques that are best presented as posters. We welcome all submissions, but especially encourage examples of new bedrock and surficial geological maps, geophysical maps, and derivative maps plus topics addressing mapping techniques, data management, and web accessibility.
T24. Northeast Water Cycle Research: Collaborative Studies of Watershed Processes to Address Water Resource Challenges in a Changing Climate
Sean M.C. Smith, Univ. of Maine, Orono, ME; David Boutt, Univ. of Massachusetts, MA; Kalle L. Jahn, Troy, NY and Salme Cook, Troy, NY
Session Description: This session focuses on research documenting impacts from climate variability to components of the water cycle with attention to how the research can address water resources sustainability challenges. We encourage early career and student participation and welcome topics on all project phases, from research planning to outcomes and science communication.
T24. Northeast Water Cycle Research: Collaborative Studies of Watershed Processes to Address Water Resource Challenges in a Changing Climate (Posters)
Sean M.C. Smith, Univ. of Maine, Orono, ME; David Boutt, Univ. of Massachusetts, MA; Kalle L. Jahn, Troy, NY and Salme Cook, Troy, NY
Session Description: This session focuses on research documenting impacts from climate variability to components of the water cycle with attention to how the research can address water resources sustainability challenges. We encourage early career and student participation and welcome topics on all project phases, from research planning to outcomes and science communication.
T25. Applied Geological Investigations at State Geological Surveys in the Northeastern and North Central Sections of GSA
Jonathan Kim, Vermont Geological Survey, Montpelier, VT and Ben DeJong, Vermont Geological Survey, Montpelier, VT
Session Description: State geological surveys are responsible for high-level field investigations of diverse environmental issues that include geological hazards, groundwater and surface water, and economic mineral deposits This technical session will highlight the important work done by state geological surveys in the Northeastern and North-Central sections of the Geological Society of America.
T25. Applied Geological Investigations at State Geological Surveys in the Northeastern and North Central Sections of GSA (Posters)
Jonathan Kim, Vermont Geological Survey, Montpelier, VT and Ben DeJong, Vermont Geological Survey, Montpelier, VT
Session Description: State geological surveys are responsible for high-level field investigations of diverse environmental issues that include geological hazards, groundwater and surface water, and economic mineral deposits This technical session will highlight the important work done by state geological surveys in the Northeastern and North-Central sections of the Geological Society of America.
T27. The Legacy of Coal Mining - Geology, History, Environmental Impacts, and Public Health
Jill Riddell, Chatham Univ., Pittsburgh, PA; Dorothy Vesper, West Virginia Univ., Morgantown, WV and Kyle Fredrick, Pennsylvania Western Univ., California Campus, California, PA
Session Description: Coal mining has left a legacy of environmental impacts and potential associated health effects. This session invites a range of topics related to coals and coal mining including coal-related history, the formation and origin of coal, coal as a resource, the environmental legacy of coal mining, and the remediation of mined lands.
T28. Great Lakes Coastal Processes and Changes
Ethan Theuerkauf, Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI; Anthony Foyle, Penn State Erie - The Behrend College, Erie, PA; John Johnston, Univ. of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada and Emma Bouie, Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH
Session Description: Great Lakes coasts are dynamic environments shaped across timescales from minutes to millennia. This session welcomes submissions exploring Great Lakes coastal processes over these timescales through fieldwork, laboratory experiments, and modeling. Submissions linking past and present geomorphic evolution, using new approaches, and contributing to coastal management considerations are particularly encouraged.
T28. Great Lakes Coastal Processes and Changes (Posters)
Ethan Theuerkauf, Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI; Anthony Foyle, Penn State Erie - The Behrend College, Erie, PA; John Johnston, Univ. of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada and Emma Bouie, Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH
Session Description: Great Lakes coasts are dynamic environments shaped across timescales from minutes to millennia. This session welcomes submissions exploring Great Lakes coastal processes over these timescales through fieldwork, laboratory experiments, and modeling. Submissions linking past and present geomorphic evolution, using new approaches, and contributing to coastal management considerations are particularly encouraged.
T29. Orphan Wells, Fugitive Hydrocarbons, and a Legacy of Efforts Toward a Brighter Future
Patrick Burkhart, Slippery Rock Univ., Slippery Rock, PA and Joe Biaglow, Greenfields Environmental Corporation, Glenwillow, OH
Session Description: Colonel Drake drove a steel pipe to case the first oil well, hence the separation of water from fuel has been a consistent challenge. Aging and neglect of infrastructure compounds the challenge. Share resorts of new well abandonment programs, sediment and erosion control, and other efforts to minimize impacts.
T31. Advances in Characterizing and Treating Contaminants in Water Resources
Eung Seok Lee, Ohio Univ., Athens, OH and Arindam Mukherjee, Ohio Univ., Athens, OH
Session Description: This session presents novel research outcomes in advancing the characterization and treatment of inorganic or organic pollutants, including emerging contaminants, in surface and groundwater resources of variable types, land uses, and scales.
T32. Recent Research in Late Quaternary Landscapes, Paleoenvironments and Geoarchaeology of Eastern North America
Todd Grote, Indiana Univ. Southeast, New Albany, IN; Lara Homsey-Messer, Indiana Univ. of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA and Albert Fulton, Univ. of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
Session Description: We invite presentations that provide updates on recent investigations and using innovative analytical techniques from a myriad of specialties within the geoscience, biological and archaeological communities that provide critical multi-proxy datasets for interpreting the Late Quaternary history (landscapes, environments, climates and archaeology) of northeastern and northcentral North America.
T32. Recent Research in Late Quaternary Landscapes, Paleoenvironments and Geoarchaeology of Eastern North America (Posters)
Todd Grote, Indiana Univ. Southeast, New Albany, IN; Lara Homsey-Messer, Indiana Univ. of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA and Albert Fulton, Univ. of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
Session Description: We invite presentations that provide updates on recent investigations and using innovative analytical techniques from a myriad of specialties within the geoscience, biological and archaeological communities that provide critical multi-proxy datasets for interpreting the Late Quaternary history (landscapes, environments, climates and archaeology) of northeastern and northcentral North America.
T33. Tell Me a Story! Communication and Outreach in the Geosciences (Posters)
Abigail Burt, Ontario Geological Survey, Sudbury, ON, Canada; John Johnston, Univ. of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada; Adam Ianno, PA Dept. of Conservation and Natural Resources, Middletown, PA; Stacey Sosenko Daniels, Pennsylvania Geological Survey, Middletown, PA and Gale Blackmer, Pennsylvania Geological Survey, Middletown, PA
Session Description: Effective communicators can inspire students, build new and innovative collaborations, confirm the value of continued investment, and excite the public. This session seeks examples of how people and organizations (i.e. educators, researchers, mappers) are bringing all branches of the geosciences to life for both traditional and unexpected audiences.
T33. Tell Me a Story! Communication and Outreach in the Geosciences I
Abigail Burt, Ontario Geological Survey, Sudbury, ON, Canada; John Johnston, Univ. of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada; Adam Ianno, PA Dept. of Conservation and Natural Resources, Middletown, PA; Stacey Sosenko Daniels, Pennsylvania Geological Survey, Middletown, PA and Gale Blackmer, Pennsylvania Geological Survey, Middletown, PA
Session Description: Effective communicators can inspire students, build new and innovative collaborations, confirm the value of continued investment, and excite the public. This session seeks examples of how people and organizations (i.e. educators, researchers, mappers) are bringing all branches of the geosciences to life for both traditional and unexpected audiences.
T33. Tell Me a Story! Communication and Outreach in the Geosciences II
Abigail Burt, Ontario Geological Survey, Sudbury, ON, Canada; John Johnston, Univ. of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada; Adam Ianno, PA Dept. of Conservation and Natural Resources, Middletown, PA; Stacey Sosenko Daniels, Pennsylvania Geological Survey, Middletown, PA and Gale Blackmer, Pennsylvania Geological Survey, Middletown, PA
Session Description: Effective communicators can inspire students, build new and innovative collaborations, confirm the value of continued investment, and excite the public. This session seeks examples of how people and organizations (i.e. educators, researchers, mappers) are bringing all branches of the geosciences to life for both traditional and unexpected audiences.