In continuing to clear out drafts and finish incomplete series or road trips, I'll take a leap back to October, 2009, when I was driving back from the annual GSA meeting in Portland. Last you knew, I was somewhere in northeastern O...

UA geoarcheologist and colleagues reported at the recent GSA annual meeting on evidence they found of ancient humans butchering elephant-like gomphotheres in northern Mexico about 11,000 years ago. It's the first documentation of h...

I'm back to the intermittent series I started more than a week ago, which shows photos and geology from my travels to the GSA Annual Meeting - and back again, as soon as I get that far. Last you saw of this series, I had just arrive...

A poster presentation at the Geological Society of America annual meeting in Portland last week presented evidence of more widespread charcoal in widely distributed Late Triassic sediments across northern Arizona. The authors, Lawr...

The indispensable Kim Hannula, who teaches in southern Colorado and blogs at All My Faults Are Stress Related, was at the GSA annual meeting last week giving a talk to a session on ways to get more women and minorities into geology....

At last week's annual meeting of the Geological Society of America, AZGS scientists presented a number of talks and posters on our technical work. Jill Onken and her co-authors explained how they used radiocarbon dates of archeolog...

Today, the day after the GSA Annual Meeting is over, I will be taking a field trip to three wineries in the Columbia River region. A presentation at the meeting noted that the Washington/Oregon wine region is the world's largest vit...

It's Wednesday morning and raining steadily, unlike this shot from Monday morning. GSA Annual meeting events at the Oregon Convention Center are winding down somewhat: many geologists leave Tuesday night or Wednesday morning, thoug...

Science meetings like the GSA Annual Meeting in Portland serve many people in different ways. The public sees nothing from them except maybe a few science headlines on TV or the papers. The science writers who write those are workin...

Congress-watchers are saying that mining law reform bills are unlikely to move. Linda Rowan, Government Affairs Director for AGI, briefed the State Geologists at the GSA Annual Meeting in Portland this morning on key legislation. ...

America's foremost authorities on aging will share the latest information on "death panels," anti-aging medicine, health care reform, and other current topics at The Gerontological Society of America's upcoming 62nd Annual Scientifi...

I don't think that anyone who attends the GSA Annual Meeting knows what they'll see beforehand. Certainly I don't. There are thousands of talks and poster presentations, and it's too much work, at least for me, to sort through them ...

The Annual meeting of the Geological Society of America is underway!I enjoyed a nice field trip yesterday, investigating some anomalous igneous rocks around Portland; more on that in a later (illustrated) post.Last night, I had dinn...

At the 2009 Portland GSA Annual Meeting (18-21 October 2009) Sankar Chatterjee will present a paper on the Shiva Crater (18 October 2009, 3:45-4:00 p.m.). The massive Shiva basin is a submerged depression west of India that is inten...

I'm in the office this morning, taking care of a bunch of last minute details before I depart this afternoon for the Geological Society of America's annual meeting. It's held this year in Portland, Oregon, and I'm pleased to be goin...

While I was at the Toronto AGU, I happend to be looking at GSA's website for their annual meeting, which is going to be held in Portland this year. Naturally, I'm excited for the chance to get closer to some volcanoes (which are not...

On a day with everything closed and nothing I need to finish, my fancy has lightly turned to mid-October's GSA annual meeting in Portland, Oregon. Ideally I'd drive there, take...

Three Arizona geo-authors were featured at last night's icebreaker kick off of the GSA annual meeting in Houston. Wayne Ranney and Ron Blakey [top] were signing copies of their new "Ancient Landscapes of the Colorado Plateau" and S...

A half dozen states are developing landslide inventories with some of them also producing state-wide landslide susceptibility maps. At the GSA annual meeting in Houston, there was a poster session dedicated to these as prototypes ...

The GSA annual meeting kicked off yesterday in Houston with a York Lecture addressing the impending global water crisis.Sandra Postel, director of the Global Water Policy Project, talked about overproduction of groundwater resources...