GSA Annual Meeting Honors International Year of Planet Earth

27 08 2008

This year the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America (GSA) will hold a joint meeting with the Soil Science Society of America (SSSA), American Society of Agronomy (ASA), Crop Science Society of America (CSSA), and the Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies with the Gulf Coast Section of SEPM (GCAGS), and the event will be hosted by the Houston Geological Society (HGS).

The conference will take place October 5-9 at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas.

The extended program linking Energy, Water Resources, Education, and Earth Systems, will encompass the 10 broad, societally relevant and multidisciplinary themes declared by The International Year of Planet Earth (health, climate, groundwater, ocean, soils, deep Earth, megacities, hazards, resources, and life).

There is still time to register for the event. For more information see the Joint Annual Meeting website.