• AAPG: 19-22 May 2013, Pittsburgh, PA
• Geology Train - Cumbres & Toltec, 23 June 2013
• Annual Review of Earth & Planetary Sciences
• Low Cost Thin Section Creation
• RockWorks - Academic Classroom License
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125th Anniversary Wine!
GSA is celebrating 125 years of geoscience innovation with Lava Cap wines, which are nourished by the prime volcanic soil of the Sierra Nevada Foothills. As geologists, the Jones winemaking family appreciates GSA’s interest in Earth’s history, processes, and resources. Here’s to 125 years of ground-breaking geoscience and our passion for the never-ending mysteries of Earth! Bonus: AGI has kindly given us permission to link to their April 2013 Earth Magazine article about Lava Cap.
[ about Lava Cap wines | order your bottle(s)! | EARTH article ]

125 Years of Collaboration
GSA has a long tradition of collaborating with partners in pursuit of our mutual goals of advancing the geosciences, enhancing the professional growth of Society members, and promoting the geosciences in the service of humanity. Our Associated Societies are a major part of this collaboration, and we’ll be highlighting all of them over the coming year.
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Science-Engineering-Tech Congressional Visits Day
While Congress was in the midst of finalizing spending levels for fiscal year 2013, GSA leadership visited Capitol Hill on 13 March to advocate for sustained funding for geoscience research.
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Roof of the World
17–19 June • Chengdu, China
A joint meeting of the Geological Society of China and GSA.
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MEDGEO 2013
25–29 August • Arlington, Virginia, USA
A meeting of the International Medical Geology Association, hosted by GSA’s Geology and Health Division.
Early registration deadline: 15 July
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125th Anniversary Annual Meeting & Expo
27–30 October • Denver, Colorado, USA
Celebrating Advances in Geoscience — Our science, our societal impact, and our unique thought processes — looking at how far we have come in the last 50 years and predicting future advances.
• Now accepting abstracts! Deadline: 6 August
• Reserve your event space: Deadline: 5 June
• Please encourage your colleagues & students to submit abstracts and come to the meeting — Use this handy e-letter to get the word out and help make this GSA’s most dynamic meeting ever.

• Contacts, Collisions, Sutures, Belts, and Margins—New GSA Bulletin Content (9 Apr.)
• GEOSPHERE Adds Two New Special Issue Themes: U.S. Sierra Nevada Geodynamics and Swarms of Subduction-Relates Supervolcanoes (1 Apr.)
• LITHOSPHERE Covers Canada, California, the Alps, and the Scandinavian Caledonides (29 Mar.)
• Geoscientists to Meet in Austin, Texas, to Discuss Groundwater, Petroleum, and Texas Geology (28 Mar.)
• Understanding Earth Processes and Human Impacts, Plus Another Look at Mars (27 Mar.)
• Caterpillar-Walk Exhumation, the Downfall of the Moche, and Trilobites in Camouflage (18 Mar.)

Press Releases Received:

• New Sea-Level-Rise Modeling Forecasts Major Climate Impact to Low-Lying Pacific Islands (USGS, 11 Apr.)
• National Research Council Framework Leads to Development of Next Generation Science Standards (NAS, 10 Apr.)
• President’s 2014 USGS Budget Proposal Strengthens Science (USGS, 10 Apr.)
• U.S. Forest Service recognizes the United Nation’s first International Day of Forests (USFS, 21 Mar.)

1. Which GSA Founding Fellow served two terms as GSA President?
2. Colorado’s Fountain Formation originated in the Ancestral Rockies, approximately how many years ago?
3. GSA has 17 specialty Divisions. Name the newest.

Learn more about GSA’s past by reading GSA’s Speaking of Geoscience blog founders series.

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