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StraboTools: A Mobile App for Quantifying Fabric in Geology
Quantification of field observations is an essential step in making them reproducible and shareable, but field geologist...
How we teach is changing. What’s that mean for what we teach?
by Don Haas, Ph.D. Director of Teacher Programming, The Paleontological Research Institution, its Museum of the Earth &...
Advancing GSA’s Diversity and Equity Goals
*Editor’s Note: GSA’s official position statement on Diversity in the Geoscience Community may be found here....
GSA Newsroom
July 2020
Evolution after the Chicxulub Asteroid Impact: The Rapid Response of Life to the End-Cretaceous Mass Extinction Event
Boulder, Colo., USA: The impact event that formed the Chicxulub crater (Yucatán Peninsula, México) caused the extinction...
GSA Newsroom
July 2020
Geological Society of America Award Winners for 2020
Boulder, CO, USA: Each year the Geological Society of America (GSA) recognizes outstanding scientific achievement and di...
GSA Today
Vol. 30 · No. 7
Reply: Subduction Polarity in Ancient Arcs: A Call to Integrate Geology and Geophysics to Decipher the Mesozoic Tectonic History of the Northern Cordillera of North America
Dept. of Geological Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003, USA
GSA Today
Vol. 30 · No. 7
Individual Development Plans (IDPs): An Underutilized Advising Tool in the Geosciences
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96822, USA, deborahe@hawaii.edu
GSA Today
Vol. 30 · No. 7
Assembling Laurentia—Integrated Theme Sessions on Tectonic Turning Points
The North American continent records the evolution of tectonic processes and tectonic environments from the earliest Arc...
GSA Today
Vol. 30 · No. 7
Comment: Subduction Polarity in Ancient Arcs: A Call to Integrate Geology and Geophysics to Decipher the Mesozoic Tectonic History of the Northern Cordillera of North America
British Columbia Geological Survey, P.O. Box 933 Stn Prov Govt, Victoria, British Colunbia, V8W 9N3, Canada
GSA Newsroom
July 2020
Geological Society of America Announces 2020–2021 Officers and Councilors
Boulder, Colo., USA: J. Douglas Walker, Union Pacific Resources Distinguished Professor at the University of Kansas–Lawr...
Reading between the rocks: Studying the Late Ordovician mass extinction on Anticosti Island (Québec, Canada)
The following post is based on a research project funded by a 2019 GSA Graduate Student Research Grant. Joshua’s researc...
To GRE or not to GRE: FAQ
by Jane Willenbring, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego...
GSA Newsroom
June 2020
Discovery of Ancient Super-Eruptions Indicates the Yellowstone Hotspot May Be Waning
Boulder, Colo., USA: Throughout Earth’s long history, volcanic super-eruptions have been some of the most extreme events...
GSA Today
Vol. 30 · No. 6
Geoscience Videos and Animations: How to Make Them with Your Students, and How to Use Them in the Classroom
We are in the midst of a “tectonic shift” in the way that undergraduate students want to learn. They will attend lecture...
GSA Today
Vol. 30 · No. 6
Seeing Like a Geologist: How Expertise and Context Impact Frame-of-Reference Judgments
Northern Illinois University, Dept. of Geology and Environmental Geosciences, Davis Hall 312, Normal Road, DeKalb, Illin...
GSA Today
Vol. 30 · No. 6
Visualization and Sharing of 3D Digital Outcrop Models to Promote Open Science
High-resolution 3D data sets, such as digital outcrop models (DOMs), are increasingly being used by geoscientists to sup...
GSA Newsroom
June 2020
Study Shows Today’s Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Levels Greater than the Past 23 Million-Year Record
Boulder, Colo., USA: A common message in use to convey the seriousness of climate change to the public is: “Carbon dioxi...
GSA Newsroom
May 2020
Charred wood reveals maximum age of newly discovered Hiawatha impact crater in Greenland
New Geology study using a set of unusual methods shows that the Hiawatha crater discovered in 2018 is the youngest of th...