New research (link to abstract) in the March 2010 issue of the Geological Society of America Bulletin sheds new light on the volcanism of the Long Valley caldera complex in eastern California, clarifying the eruptive sequence and th...

Call for Judges for the Undergraduate and Graduate Student Poster Competitions at the 2010 Joint Northeastern/Southeastern Sections Meeting of the Geological Society of America.Are you interested in helping support the careers of yo...

You should check this out. The illustrations don't reproduce especially well in the PDF, but rest assured they are higher-fidelity in the print edition of the monthly magazine from the Geological Society of America.It's good to know...

The Association of American State Geologists (AASG) handed out 11,445 geologic postcards at the recent Geological Society of America annual meeting in Portland, Oregon, including a stack of our Arizona Rocks postcard.AASG puts up an...

I've cared about geoparks for several years, so I made sure to attend a session on geoparks at the Geological Society of America meeting, on 19 October. The most important news to me was that the National Park Service is collaborati...

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...

AZGS geologist Ann Youberg's talk at the Geological Society of America annual meeting last week was at 3 pm on the last day, usually a deadly time as people bail out to catch planes home. But her room was pretty well packed, with ...

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...

Last week was the Geological Society of America meeting in Portland, Oregon. Just below t is a view of Mt. Hood looking from the north, which I might have seen if I were not busy in and around the convention center the entire time. ...

Like many North American geobloggers, I've recently returned from the Geological Society of America meeting in Portland, Oregon. It was a bittersweet trip for me, as it was a return to my spiritual homeland, where I spent five happ...

Whew! A busy day at the Geological Society of America meeting in Portland, Oregon. I started off the day in the two-year-college session, culminating (for me, anyhow) in my talk about the role that field trips play in my geology cla...

A couple more presentations on volcanic themes from the current Geological Society of America 2009 Fall Meeting in Portland, Oregon (18-21 October 2009). Magmatic plumbing of a ’supervolcano’ exposed to a depth of 25 km (James E. Qu...

The Geological Society of America is currently holding its 2009 Fall Meeting in Portland, Oregon (18-21 October 2009) and with volcanoes featuring prominently in its title, ‘From volcanoes to vineyards – living with dynamic landscap...

My friend and fellow State Geologist (Nevada) Jon Price received the Ian Campbell Award last night at the Presidential Awards session at the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting in Portland.Minnesota State Geologist Harvey T...

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...

As many of you know the 2009 Geological Society of America (GSA) conference is in Portland, Oregon from this Sunday (Oct 18) through Wednesday (Oct 21). I will be heading up to give a talk about some work I did for my Ph.D. about th...

As part of Earth Science Week and as a diversion from the frantic lead-up to the Geological Society of America meeting, we're helping push the Geobloggers Giving Kids the Earth challenge. As I announced yesterday, for every one of t...

Here in the US, we're celebrating Earth Science Week and the lead-up to the Geological Society of America meeting. What better time to inspire the next generation of earth scientists and earth science aficionados by helping make sur...

Whilst I continue my struggles to regain the blogging muse, here's a much better use of your time: Over the past several years, the geoscience blogosphere has blossomed so much that this fall, the Geological Society of America (GSA...