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GSA Newsroom
May 2020
GSA Cancels Regional Spring Section Meetings
GSA Newsroom
May 2020
International declaration: Geoscience expertise is crucial for meeting global societal challenges
GSA Newsroom
May 2020
GSA’s North-Central Section Meeting Goes Virtual
GSA Today
Vol. 30 · No. 5
A Guide to Graduate School Admissions in the Geosciences
While information on pursuing graduate studies is widely available from both web sources and faculty advisers, many pros...
GSA Today
Vol. 30 · No. 5
Remnants and Rates of Metamorphic Decarbonation in Continental Arcs
Metamorphic decarbonation in magmatic arcs remains a challenge to impose in models of the geologic carbon cycle. Crustal...

On To the Future – Gender Inclusivity
By Jazzy Graham Davis, graduate of Portland State University, 2019 GSA On To the Future (OTF) program participant...
GSA Newsroom
April 2020
Catastrophic Outburst Floods Carved Greenland’s “Grand Canyon”
Boulder, Colo., USA: Buried a mile beneath Greenland’s thick ice sheet is a network of canyons so deep and long that the...

Reflection: GSA On To the Future
By Anabel Winitsky, graduate of Warren Wilson College and the University of North Carolina Asheville...

Geothermal bills make progress through both chambers
By Ryan Haupt, GSA Science Policy Fellow...

Looking for another perspective on the COVID-19 pandemic? Earth science might help
By Mark Quigley, Associate Professor of Earthquake Science, School of Earth Sciences at The University of Melbourne....
GSA Newsroom
March 2020
Sediments May Control Location, Magnitude of Megaquakes
Boulder, Colo., USA: The world’s most powerful earthquakes strike at subduction zones, areas where enormous amounts of s...
GSA Newsroom
March 2020
Bees, Chicxulub, and REEs: Geoscientist Present Diverse Science and Keynote Sessions in Reston, Virginia
GSA Newsroom
March 2020
GSA Cancels Joint Section Meeting
Meeting of the Geological Society of America's Southeastern and Northeastern Geographic Sections Boulder, Colo., USA: In...
GSA Newsroom
March 2020
GSA Foundation Hires New President
GSA Newsroom
March 2020
Late Cretaceous Dinosaur-Dominated Ecosystem
Boulder, Colo., USA: A topic of considerable interest to paleontologists is how dinosaur-dominated ecosystems were struc...
GSA Newsroom
March 2020
Go Texas—Recent Geological Advances of the Gulf and South-Central Region
The Geological Society of America’s South-Central Section to Meet in Fort Worth, Texas
GSA Today
Vol. 30 · No. 3
¡Cuba! River Water Chemistry Reveals Rapid Chemical Weathering, the Echo of Uplift, and the Promise of More Sustainable Agriculture
For the first time in more than half a century, a joint Cuban/American science team has worked together to quantify the...

On To the Future: ‘Beyond’ Geological Sciences!
By Hoang Anh Tu (Lavie) Nguyen, University of Saskatchewan...