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Deriving a Water Height Acceleration Threshold for Improved Flash Flood Alerts in the Upper Guadalupe River
Flash flooding along the Guadalupe River (Texas, USA) on 4 July 2025 caused more than 130 fatalities, highlighting a tra...
Toward a Resilient Geoscience Enterprise in Latin America and the Caribbean
Geoscience in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) operates amid persistent variability that challenges the continuity,...
Critical Minerals for a Thriving Society: From Research Frontiers to Public Understanding
As a GSA member, you likely know that critical minerals have become central to conversations about energy, technology, a...
GSA Today
Vol. 36 · No. 10
2026 J. David Lowell Field Camp Scholars Reflect on Their Experiences: Part 2
Each year, the GSA J. David Lowell Field Camp Scholarship helps students take an important step in their geoscience educ...
Celebrating the Birth of U.S. Geoheritage in Denver, Colorado
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA
Opportunities and Challenges for Adaptive Reuse of Bauxite Residue for U.S. Critical Minerals Supply, Geohazard Reduction, and Land Restoration, Texas Gulf Coast, USA
Driven by the U.S. government’s recent emphasis on finding domestic sources of critical minerals, bauxite residue stored...
2026 J. David Lowell Field Camp Scholars Reflect on Their Experiences: Part 1
Each year, GSA’s J. David Lowell Field Camp Scholarship helps undergraduate geology students participate in one of the m...
Active Fault Database for the Northern Western Branch of the East African Rift System
The northern Western Branch of the East African Rift System (EARS) is characterized by active normal faults accommodatin...
Celebrating Where Deep Time Began: James Hutton, Siccar Point, and Scotland’s Geological Heritage
In 2026, GSA launched a new initiative focused on non-meeting field trips—immersive travel experiences designed to conne...
Teach, Learn, Befriend, Enjoy: My Time As a GSA Thompson Distinguished International Lecturer
As a child, my family did not have the means to travel. It was through geology that I first travelled and learned that I...
Giant’s Causeway, Northern Ireland: One of the First 100 IUGS Geological Heritage Sites
Lon D. Abbott*Department of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA
There Is No Universal Geoscience Curriculum
kferrier@wisc.eduUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison, Department of Geoscience, Madison, Wisconsin, USA 53706
Lost in Non-Translation: AI Translation Could Bring Non-English Literature into Modern Geoscience Research
Over the past several decades, English has emerged as the dominant language across the geological sciences. Despite this...
GSA Today
Vol. 36 · No. 6
Groundwater, Arsenic, and the Value of Staying with a Challenge
I grew up in India, where groundwater is both lifeline and liability. Long before I had the language of geology to descr...
Extreme Moho Relief Preserved in Ohio’s Crust
The average thickness of continental crust is ~30–40 km far-removed from plate boundaries and in the absence of signific...
Science Has No Borders: A Journey from Rural China to International Geoscience
Prof. Hailiang Dong, China University of Geosciences–Beijing, 2025 Arthur L. Day Medal Awardee
Hazard Mitigation Policy Lessons from My Two-Year Congressional Science Fellowship
As natural disaster events become more frequent and costly, scientists play a critical role in ensuring that communities...
Tower in Motion: Resonance Mode Analysis of Devils Tower, Wyoming, USA
Devils Tower, Wyoming, is a 265-m-high cylindrical rock tower of phonolite porphyry with deep cultural significance and...