GSA 2007 Annual Meeting

Boulder, CO -- More than 6000 geoscientists will gather at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver 28-31 October for "2007: Earth Sciences for Society," the 119th annual meeting and exposition of the Geological Society of America. This is the first of three GSA Annual Meetings tied to themes of the International Year of Planet Earth, organized under the auspices of the Internal Union of Geological Sciences and the United National General Assembly.

Representatives of the media are cordially invited to attend and participate in technical sessions, field trips, and other special events. Eligible media will receive complimentary registration (see below) and are invited to use GSA's Newsroom facilities while at the meeting.

I. Scientific Program

Finalization of the scientific program is underway. Additional information will be made available when the technical program schedule is complete.

** 8 PARDEE KEYNOTE SYMPOSIA**

Topics addressed in these interdisciplinary, invited-speaker sessions include:

• New data, models, and concepts of the San Andreas Fault system
• New eyes and ears on Mars
• Oxygen, evolution, and extinction
• America's most vulnerable oceanfront communities

For more information on Pardee Keynote Symposia visit http://www.geosociety.org/meetings/2007/keynote.htm

** 150+ TOPICAL SESSIONS **

These interdisciplinary sessions involve a mix of invited and volunteered papers. A sampling of topics includes:

• Global climate and environmental change
• Geology and aqueous history of Mars
• The search for biomarkers in the solar system
• Early Earth studies: coevolution of Earth and life
• The emerging discipline of medical geology
• Forensic geoscience
• Energy resources
• Geoarchaeology