Wooster Geologists at GSA

Many of the Wooster Geologists have embarked on the journey to Charlotte, NC, for the 2012 National Meeting of GSA. If you’re attending the meeting, be sure to check out one of our presentations:

• Jonah Novek – Sunday Poster – Session 27 Booth #93 – Analysis of a Rhuddanian (Llandovery, Lower Silurian) Sclerobiont Community in the Hilliste Formation on Hiiumaa Island, Estonia: A Hard Substrate-Dwelling Recovery Fauna
• Kit Price – Sunday Poster – Session 27 Booth #92 – Upside-Down and Inside-Out: Cryptic Skeletobiont Communities from the Late Ordovician of Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky
• Melissa Torma – Monday Poster – Session 102 Hall B – Patchiness and Ecological Structure in a Middle Jurassic Equatorial Crinoid-Brachiopod Community (Matmor Formation, Callovian, Southern Israel)
• Richa Ekka – Monday Poster – Session 86 Booth #6 – Stratigraphy and Paleoenvironment of the Soeginina Beds (Paadla Formation, Lower Ludlow, Upper Silurian) on Saaremaa Island, Estonia
• Matt Peppers – Monday Poster – Session 92 Hall B – Analysis of Ice Springs Volcanic Field Structures, Black Rock Desert, Utah
• Anna Mudd – Tuesday Poster – Session 165 Hall B – Interpretation of a Middle Miocene Paleosol from the Powder River Volcanic Field, Northeast Oregon
• Whitney Sims – Tuesday Poster – Session 157 Booth #37 – Petrological and Geochemical Analysis: Mapping of Miter Flows in Ice Springs Volcanic Field, Black Rock Desert, Utah
• Andy Nash – Tuesday Poster – Session 180 Hall B – Climate Reconstruction for Northeast Ohio Drought Using Quercus Alba L. Tree-Rings
• Jenn Horton – Tuesday Poster – Session 180 Hall B – Dating the First Millennium AD Glacial History of Adams Inlet, Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, Southeast Alaska
• Lauren Vargo – Tuesday Poster – Session 180 Hall B – Tree-Ring Evidence of North Pacific Volcanically Forced Cooling and Drought in Midwestern North America
• Will Cary – Wednesday Poster – Session 236 Booth #110 – Ballistic Analysis of Volcanic Ejecta: Ice Springs Volcanic Field, Black Rock Desert, Utah
• Spring 2012 Geochemistry Class – Wednesday Poster – Session 228 Booth #8 – Geochemistry of Dikes and Lavas from the Vatnsdalur Structural Basin, Skagi Peninsula, Northwest Iceland
• Mark Wilson – Wednesday 8:45 am – Room 217D – Echinoid Preservation in a Middle Jurassic Shallow Marine Equatorial Environment: Testing Models of Taphonomy and Encrustation
• Meagen Pollock – Wednesday 4 pm – Room 210AB – Enhancing Undergraduate Research with Social Media

Don’t miss us at the Group Alumni Reception on Monday at 7 pm in the Westin Grand Ballroom CD. We’re taking our annual alumni photo at 8 pm. GSA President and Wooster Alum George Davis (’64) will also be joining us at 8 pm.

Real-life photos to come!