Section News and Announcements

Co-sponsoring two field trips that target geology majors and professionals (More information available at the Section Website)
- Tri-State Field Conference, River Falls, WI, October 5-7, 2007 (Kerry Keen and Mike Middleton) Paleozoic Stratigraphy to Quaternary Features of the River Falls Area. Special trip to the Rock Elm Impact Structure.
- GLS-SEPM Field Conference, SE Ohio, October 5-6, 2007 (Greg Nadon and Dan Hembree) Variations in Sequence, Fluvial, and Pedogenic Architecture in the Distal Appalachian Foreland Basin; see flier below. Register now.
Planning activities for North-Central GSA, Evansville, IN, April 24-25, 2007 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
Deadline: January 29, 2008

Theme Sessions (Full descriptions in Section Newsletter (Acrobat (PDF) 313kB Aug23 07))
- Program Development and Assessment – Step 1: Identifying Learning Objectives (Annabelle Foos, convenor)
- Initiating a Dialogue on Dealing with Resistance to Teaching the Geologic Time Scale and Fossil Record (C. Moosavi, Kurt A. Shoemaker, Helen Greer co-convenors)
- Inquiry-based, hands-on, class and lab demonstrations (Mark Francek, convenor)
Field Trip: Building Stones and Cultural Geology of Evansville (Joe Hannibal, Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Sabina Thomas, Baldwin-Wallace College)

Business meeting and luncheon Friday, April 25, 2008, 12 noon

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Fall Conference of the Far West Section
August 17-19, 2007
Lava Beds National Monument

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