Several of our faculty and students are presenting their research at the GSA annual meeting in Seattle this week.  Below is a schedule of presentations, sessions chaired, and events hosted by members of our department:

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  SUNDAY, 22 OCTOBER 2017

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  08:00 AM - 08:20 AM

• 29-1 INSIGHTS INTO MIDCONTINENT (USA) TECTONICS AND SEISMICITY FROM THE OIINK EARTHSCOPE FLEXARRAY EXPERIMENT

• The Conference Center - Tahoma 5
   
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• 08:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• 3 D49. Recent Advances in Precambrian Geology
• Washington State Convention Center - Room 3A
   
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• 08:40 AM - 09:00 AM
• 22-3 DISCHARGE RECONSTRUCTION OF CANYON-CARVING OUTBURST FLOODS FROM THE CORDILLERAN ICE SHEET
• The Conference Center - Chelan 5
   
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• 09:00 AM - 05:30 PM
• 71-15 BASALTIC MAGMATIC MAPPING: A SUGGESTED METHODOLOGY AND RESULTS FROM THE SPRINGERVILLE VOLCANIC FIELD
• Washington State Convention Center - Halls 4EF
  
  82-22 USING HEAT AS A GROUNDWATER TRACER TO CONSTRAIN GROUNDWATER DISCHARGE TO LAGOON COMPLEXES IN SALAR DE ATACAMA, NORTHERN CHILE
• Washington State Convention Center - Halls 4EF
  
  85-13 CATHODOLUMINESCENCE DOMAINS CORRELATE WITH COMPOSITIONAL ZONING IN KYANITE
• Washington State Convention Center - Halls 4EF
  
  72-22 CONSTRAINTS ON MEGAFLOOD DISCHARGE THROUGH UPPER GRAND COULEE IN THE CHANNELED SCABLAND OF EASTERN WASHINGTON
• Washington State Convention Center - Halls 4EF
   
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• 09:05 AM - 09:25 AM
• 27-5 CONSTRAINING THE 4D CHARACTER AND EVOLUTION OF CONTINENTAL CRUST
• The Conference Center - Tahoma 4
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• 09:35 AM - 09:50 AM
• 8-5 ROLE OF GROUNDING ZONE WEDGES IN GROUNDING LINE STABILIZATION: CASE STUDY FROM ROSS SEA
• The Conference Center - Yakima 1
   
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• 11:20 AM - 11:35 AM
• 21-12 CAMBRIAN GRANULITE-FACIES METAMORPHISM OF THE LARSEMANN HILLS, PRYDZ BAY, ANTARCTICA: USING THERMODYNAMIC MODELING TO INFORM MONAZITE PETROCHRONOLOGY
• The Conference Center - Skagit 4
   
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• 11:35 AM - 11:50 AM
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  21-13 GEOCHRONOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY OF MONAZITE IN A MIGMATITIC PARAGNEISS IN THE EASTERN ADIRONDACK HIGHLANDS ADJACENT TO TICONDEROGA, NEW YORK
• The Conference Center - Skagit 4
   
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• 05:00 PM - 05:15 PM
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  49-12 ELECTRON MICROPROBE PETROCHRONOLOGY: NEW DATA AND NEW CHALLENGES FROM THE ADIRONDACK MOUNTAINS, NEW YORK
• The Conference Center - Skagit 4
   
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• MONDAY, 23 OCTOBER 2017

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• 08:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• 120 T252. Cratonic Assembly in the Precambrian: Forming the Core of Modern and Ancient Landmasses
• Washington State Convention Center - Room 604

• 08:20 AM - 08:35 AM
• 104-2 WORKSHOP FOR EARLY CAREER GEOSCIENCE FACULTY: TEACHING, RESEARCH, AND MANAGING ONE’S CAREERW
• ashington State Convention Center - Room 2A
   
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• 08:30 AM - 08:45 AM
• 94-2 EVALUATING THE ECOLOGICAL AND BIOGEOCHEMICAL IMPLICATIONS OF PREFERENTIAL FLOW PROCESSES AT THE GROUNDWATER/SURFACE WATER INTERFACE
• Washington State Convention Center - Room 618/619/620
   
• 08:40 AM - 08:55 AM
• 106-3 PARTITIONING OF STRONTIUM ISOTOPES IN FELDSPARS FROM A PROTEROZOIC SYENITIC MAGMA
• The Conference Center - Skagit 2
   
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• 09:00 AM - 06:30 PM
• 181 T252. Cratonic Assembly in the Precambrian: Forming the Core of Modern and Ancient Landmasses (Posters)
• Washington State Convention Center - Halls 4EF
  
  
  168-3 LONG-TERM DRAINAGE OF STORED GROUNDWATER RESOLVES THE HYDROLOGIC BUDGET DISCREPANCIES OF ARID CATCHMENTS
• Washington State Convention Center - Halls 4EF
  
  168-6 HYDROLOGIC RESPONSE OF THE SALAR DE ATACAMA TRANSITION ZONE TO THE EXTREME MARCH 2015 PLUVIAL FLOOD
• Washington State Convention Center - Halls 4EF
  
  176-14 CONSTRAINING THE TIMING OF MELTING IN THE EASTERN ADIRONDACK MOUNTAINS, NY USING A COMBINATION OF IN-SITU MONAZITE AND ZIRCON U/PB DATING TECHNIQUES
• Washington State Convention Center - Halls 4EF
  
  176-15 MONAZITE-ALLANITE-FLUORAPATITE RELATIONSHIPS FROM THE CHEEVER FE-OXIDE APATITE (IOA) DEPOSIT, EASTERN ADIRONDACK MOUNTAINS, NY
• Washington State Convention Center - Halls 4EF
  
  
  176-16 CONSTRAINTS FROM MONAZITE GEOCHEMISTRY AND LA-ICP-MS ZIRCON ANALYSES ON THE NATURE AND TIMING OF METAMORPHISM IN THE DRESDEN STATION AREA, EASTERN ADIRONDACKS
• Washington State Convention Center - Halls 4EF
   
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• 09:30 AM - 09:45 AM
• 94-6 EXTREME PRECIPITATION EVENTS AND SUBSURFACE WATER STORAGE DYNAMICS OF GLACIATED LANDSCAPES
• Washington State Convention Center - Room 618/619/620
   
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• 01:30 PM - 01:45 PM
• 147-1 ACCOUNTING FOR FAULT GEOMETRY'S IMPACT ON THE SLIP BUDGET
• The Conference Center - Tahoma 2
   
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• 02:30 PM - 02:45 PM
• 128-5 FLOW REVERSAL IN THE CENTRAL AMERICAN SEAWAY DURING OR AFTER THE OLIGOCENE MIOCENE TRANSITION
• Washington State Convention Center - Room 609
   
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• 04:10 PM - 04:25 PM
• 147-10 TRACKING EFFICIENCY ASSOCIATED WITH FAULT SYSTEM REORGANIZATION IN LABORATORY AND NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS
• The Conference Center - Tahoma 2
   
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• 06:00 PM - 09:00 PM
• University of Massachusetts and University of Connecticut Friends and Alumni Meetup
   
• TUESDAY, 24 OCTOBER 2017

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• 09:00 AM - 06:30 PM
• 278 D50. Precambrian Geology (Posters)
• Washington State Convention Center - Halls 4EF
  
  279 T254. The Co-Evolution of Life and Its Environment during the Precambrian: The “Boring Billion” and Mid-Proterozoic Emergence of Complex Life (Posters)
• Washington State Convention Center - Halls 4EF
  
  280 T255. The Co-Evolution of Life and Its Environment during the Precambrian: The Late Proterozoic Rise of Animals; Climate, Tectonic, and Environmental Dynamics, and the Transition into the Early Paleozoic (Posters)
• Washington State Convention Center - Halls 4EF
  
  255-1 RAPID HEATING AND PARTIAL MELTING OF THE LOWER CRUSTAL 2.6 GA FEHR GRANITE, ATHABASCA GRANULITE TERRANE: EVIDENCE FROM LEUCOSOME AND GARNET COMPOSITIONS
• Washington State Convention Center - Halls 4EF
  
  253-14 SIGNIFICANT FE ISOTOPE FRACTIONATION WITHIN THE KIGLAPAIT LAYERED INTRUSION REFLECTS CRYSTAL FRACTIONATION
• Washington State Convention Center - Halls 4EF
   
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• 10:50 AM - 11:10 AM
• 191-11 DEVELOPMENT OF NON-STEADY STATE SLIP PARTITIONING UNDER OBLIQUE CONVERGENCE
• The Conference Center - Tahoma 3
   
• 11:10 AM - 11:25 AM
• 217-11 FORAMINIFERAL RESPONSE TO THE ONSET OCEANIC ANOXIC EVENT 2 NEAR THE SOUTHERN APERTURE OF THE WESTERN INTERIOR SEAWAY
• Washington State Convention Center - Room 307/308
   
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• 01:30 PM - 05:30 PM
• 249 T256. The Co-Evolution of Life and Its Environment during the Precambrian: The Rise of Oxygenic Photosynthesis and the Great Oxidation EventT
• he Conference Center - Skagit 5
   
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• 02:15 PM - 02:30 PM
• 238-3 THE SNOWBIRD TECTONIC ZONE LIP: IMPLICATIONS FOR AN ABORTED RIFT ORIGINThe Conference Center - Skagit 2
   
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• 03:45 PM - 04:00 PM
• 234-8 WORKSHOP INITIAL REPORT: EXPANDING THE GEOSCIENCE PIPELINE BY CONNECTING EDUCATORS WITH EARLY CAREER IODP SCIENTISTSWashington State Convention Center - Room 2A
   
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• WEDNESDAY, 25 OCTOBER 2017

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• 08:00 AM - 08:15 AM
• 309-1 UNVEILING VICTORIA’S SECRETS
• Washington State Convention Center - Room 307/308
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• 08:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• 324 T254. The Co-Evolution of Life and Its Environment during the Precambrian: The “Boring Billion” and Mid-Proterozoic Emergence of Complex Life
• The Conference Center - Skagit 5
   
• 08:15 AM - 08:30 AM
• 302-2 DIVERSITY AND PALEOECOLOGY OF GULF COASTAL PLAIN FORAMINIFERA PRIOR TO THE END-CRETACEOUS MASS EXTINCTION
• Washington State Convention Center - Room 609
   
• 09:00 AM - 09:15 AM
• 318-4 PREDICTING CHANNEL STABILITY AND ANALYZING CHANGES IN RIPARIAN COVER AND WOODY DEBRIS IN THE CHICKLEY RIVER WATERSHED, HAWLEY, MASSACHUSETTS, USA
• The Conference Center - Chelan 5
   
• 09:00 AM - 06:30 PM
• 362-6 TIME SCAVENGERS: A COLLABORATIVE WEBSITE FOR EXPLORING CLIMATE CHANGE AND EVOLUTION THROUGH SCIENTISTS’ EXPERIENCES
• Washington State Convention Center - Halls 4EF
  
  366-1 THE IMPORTANCE OF HYDROLOGIC TRANSIENCE IN CONCEPTUAL AND NUMERICAL GROUNDWATER MODELING IN THE GREAT BASIN
• Washington State Convention Center - Halls 4EF
  
  385-18 ECHELON FAULT DEVELOPMENT DEPENDS ON STRAIN RATE IN WET KAOLIN
• Washington State Convention Center - Halls 4EF
   
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• 9:30 AM - 09:45 AM
• 305-7 A POST-EXTINCTION CACO3 SATURATION STATE CRISIS IN THE EARLIEST PALEOGENE
• Washington State Convention Center - Room 608
   
• 01:30 PM - 05:30 PM
• 346 T255. The Co-Evolution of Life and Its Environment during the Precambrian: The Late Proterozoic Rise of Animals; Climate, Tectonic, and Environmental Dynamics, and the Transition into the Early Paleozoic
• The Conference Center - Skagit 5
   
• 01:45 PM - 02:00 PM
• 340-2 MODELING LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION WITHIN LAYERED ROCKS: WHITHER EQUILIBRIUM?
• The Conference Center - Chelan 2