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GSA Newsroom
April 2021
Articles for Geosphere Posted Online in March
Boulder, Colo., USA: GSA’s dynamic online journal, Geosphere, posts articles online regularly. Locations studied this mo...
Challenges and Solutions for a Changing Climate: New Directions for GSA
By Beth Bartel, Candace L. Kairies-Beatty, Luke J. Bowman, Malcolm Siegel, and Sinjini Sinha...
GSA Newsroom
March 2021
Architecture of Eolian Successions under Icehouse and Greenhouse Conditions
Boulder, Colo., USA: Anthropogenic climate change is one of the foremost scientific and societal challenges. In part, ou...
GSA Newsroom
March 2021
Rare fossilized algae, discovered unexpectedly, fill in evolutionary gaps
Boulder, Colo., USA: When geobiology graduate student Katie Maloney trekked into the mountains of Canada’s remote Yukon...
GSA Newsroom
March 2021
Arctic methane release due to melting ice is likely to happen again
Boulder, Colo., USA: Beneath the cold, dark depths of the Arctic ocean sit vast reserves of methane. These stores rest i...
GSA Newsroom
March 2021
Advancing knowledge in the geosciences to understand Earth’s past, present, and future: 70th Annual Meeting of GSA’s Southeastern Section
Boulder, Colo., USA: The 2021 Geological Society of America Southeastern Section Meeting will be hosted by Auburn Univer...
GSA Newsroom
March 2021
56th Annual Meeting of GSA’s Northeastern Section: Lithosphere, Hydrosphere, Anthroposphere
Boulder, Colo., USA: The Geological Society of America’s Northeastern Section will meet online on 14–15 March. The meeti...
GSA Newsroom
March 2021
Current Issue Articles for Geosphere Posted Online in February
Boulder, Colo., USA: GSA’s dynamic online journal, Geosphere, posts articles online regularly. Topics for articles poste...
GSA Newsroom
March 2021
New GSA Bulletin Articles Published Ahead of Print in February
Boulder, Colo., USA: Several articles were published online ahead of print for GSA Bulletin in February. Topics include...
GSA Today
Vol. 31 · No. 3
Bringing the Field to Students during COVID-19 and Beyond
Dept. of Geological Sciences, Univ. of Colorado at Boulder, 2200 Colorado Ave., Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA
GSA Today
Vol. 31 · No. 3
Field-Based Geoscience Education during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Planning, Execution, Outcomes, and Forecasts
The undergraduate geoscience experience typically culminates in a field-based capstone course that utilizes outcrop mapp...
An Interview with Kathleen Counter Benison, Ph.D.
By Matthew Dawson, GSA Education Programs Manager...
GSA Today
Vol. 31 · No. 2
Seeking Diversity in the Geosciences When Black Lives Matter
Illinois State Geological Survey/University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois 61820, USA
Times are Changing: How the New Biden Administration and 117th Congress are Addressing Climate Change
By Connor Dacey, GSA Science Policy Fellow...
Geocaching on Mars: An Interview with NASA’s Dr. Francis McCubbin
By Chris Ronan, Geocaching HQ’s Community Relations Manager...
GSA Newsroom
January 2021
GSA Bulletin Articles Published Ahead of Print in January
Boulder, Colo., USA: Sixteen articles were published online ahead of print for GSA Bulletin in January. Topics include i...
GSA Newsroom
January 2021
New Geology Articles Published Online Ahead of Print in January
Boulder, Colo., USA: Eleven new articles were published ahead of print for Geology in January 2021. The include new mode...
GSA Newsroom
January 2021
Experiments show the record of early life could be full of “false positives”
Boulder, Colo., USA: For most of Earth’s history, life was limited to the microscopic realm, with bacteria occupying nea...