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06 Jan

GSA, The Aftermath

Today, the day after the GSA Annual Meeting is over, I will be taking a field trip to three wineries in the Columbia River region. A presentation at the meeting noted that the Washington/Oregon wine region is the world's largest viticultural area on basalt soils, and that the chemistry of these s...

Bury About.com Geology October 21 09

The GSA Experience

Science meetings like the GSA Annual Meeting in Portland serve many people in different ways. The public sees nothing from them except maybe a few science headlines on TV or the papers. The science writers who write those are working hard without much time for fun or even curiosity. The scientist...

Bury About.com Geology October 21 09

GSA Day Three

I don't think that anyone who attends the GSA Annual Meeting knows what they'll see beforehand. Certainly I don't. There are thousands of talks and poster presentations, and it's too much work, at least for me, to sort through them all in the leisurely fashion they deserve. So at the last minute,...

Bury About.com Geology October 20 09

Ice Age Floods Trail: Reality!

I learned today that Congress passed the bill to recognize the Ice Age Floods National Geologic Trail, and the President has signed it, as part of the Omnibus Public Lands Package back in May. This trail links dozens of important geologic localities (some of them already National Natural Landmark...

Bury About.com Geology October 19 09

GSA Day Two

Today is promising. One of the packed sessions, I am sure, will be the one where a group of different speakers will present evidence from India around the great end-Cretaceous extinction bolstering the volcanic theory. There is also a session full of Google Earth geo-tricks that will draw a lot o...

Bury About.com Geology October 19 09

GSA Day One

The scientific sessions begin today here in Portland, and my persoanl scheduler has me seeing sessions on basaltic volcanism, Precambrian life and history (which are closely related, perhaps more so than in more recent geologic history), delamination of the lithosphere and a bunch of posters. Tod...

Bury About.com Geology October 18 09

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