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2008 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting Schedule


Sunday, 5 October

127-2
8:15 AM
Brandt, Csonka, McCoy
In Search of a Modern Analog for Arthrophycus Ichnogenus
121-4
8:45 AM
Karsten, Patino
Cultivating the Next Generation Geoscience Workforce: The View from NSF
136-8
9:55 AM
Shoukar-Stash, Wood, Frape
The Role of Stable Bromine Stable Isotopes in Determining the Origin and Evolution Model of the Abu Dhabi Costal Sabkha (UAE)
147-41
All day
Hampton, Sunderlin
Provenance and Paleoflora of the Cretaceous Caribou Pass Formation, South-Central Alaska: Development of a Collisional Foreland in the Final Stages of Island Arc Accretion
151-8
All day
Yansa, Stafford Jr, Long, Hession
Testing for the 14C Reservoir Effect in Submerged Aquatic Macrophytes: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of 14C Dating Plant Macrofossils
152-4
All day
Deloge, Hampton
Stratigraphy and Provenance of Upper Triassic Red Bed Units of the Chulitna Terrane, South-Central Alaska: Tectonic Implications for Sedimentation Prior to Island Arc Collision
175-4
2:15 PM
Rossman, Libarkin, Clark
Missing Connections in Student Conceptions of Global Change
175-5
2:30 PM
Clark, Heidemann, Libarkin, Sibley
A Novel Conceptual Methodology for Teaching and Learning Dynamic Processes In the Geological Sciences
171-8
3:15 PM
Velbel
Corrosion Textures Formed by Aqueous Alteration of Olivine in Mars Meteorites and Terrestrial Analogs
175-13
4:30 PM
Brandt
The "Evolution of Everything" as a Paradigm for Science Professional Development

Monday, 6 October

190-1
8:00 AM
Van Dam, Simmons, Hyndman, Wood
Geophysical Characterization of Natural Free Convection in a Coastal Sabkha
221-6
2:45 PM
Stokes, King, Libarkin
Threshold Concepts: Unstuffing the Geoscience Curriculum
 

 

7-9PM

Alumni Reception
Lanier Grand ballroom K
Hilton Americas Houston Hotel

 

Tuesday, 7 October

244-1
8:00 AM
Petcovic, Libarkin, Baker
Problem-Solving In the Field: Novice to Expert Geologic Mapping Strategies, Behavior, and Cognition
685-2
8:35 AM
Velbel
Major Elements from Minor Minerals: Garnet and Epidote in Watershed Calcium Budgets
228-3
8:50 AM
Moore, Miller
Geological Literacy during the Anthropocene Epoch: Public Understanding of Global Climate Change and Public Policy
242-8
9:55 AM
Parsons, Saladin, Long, Fitzpatrick
Origin of Chloride in Wetlands, Lakes, and Rivers of the Michigan Lowlands
248-14
All day
Clark, Libarkin
Post-Instruction Alternative Conceptions about Plate Tectonics Held by Non-Science Majors
274-2
1:45 PM
King, Clark, Libarkin, Stokes
The Emerging Field of Geocognition
257-3
2:00 PM
Long, Parsons, Yansa, McLean, Vannier
Understanding Ecosystem Responses to Environmental Perturbations and Secular Changes Using Sediment Cores
258-3
2:00 PM
LaDue, …, Patino, et al.
Developing a Framework for Earth Science Literacy I: Engaging the Community
272-5
2:35 PM
Vannier, Long, Parsons, Benedict, Patino
Using Multiple Geochemical Indicators to Estimate the Environmental Recovery of Lakes from Lead Contamination
272-6
2:50 PM
Baas, Long, Mantha
Identifying Seasonal Trends In Dissolved Phosphorus In a Mixed Land Use Watershed Using a Mixed Linear Model Approach
274-11
4:00 PM
Libarkin, Clark
The Relationship Between Students' Confidence and Conceptual Understanding of Plate Tectonics

Wednesday, 8 October

297-7 
9:40 AM
Voice, Flores del Pino, Havezov, Long
Field Deployable Method for Arsenic Speciation in Water
277-11
10:45 AM
Taggart, Cross
Plant Successions and Paleoecological Reconstruction: Case Studies from the Neogene of the Northern Intermountain Region
78-13
5:05 PM
Wood, Clark, Imes, Councell
Aeolian Transport of Natural Hexavalent Chromium to Ground Water of the Abu Dhabi Emirate, UAE

Thursday, 9 October

336-1
 
Schaetzl, Loope, Stanley
New Sources for the Glacigenic Loess of the Midwestern United States
336-3
 
Stanley, Schaetzl
The Paleoenvironmental Significance of the Central Wisconsin Loess Sheet