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Annual Meeting Media Coverage
Dozens of presentations received mainstream coverage. Topics reported included planetary geoscience, hydrogeology, climate change, environmental geology, geology and health, geomorphology, paleontology, geoarchaeology, geochemistry, Quaternary geology, and more.
Selected print/online media coverage
TITLE (Session-Paper)
- MERCURY AND SMALL-SCALE GOLD MINING IN ANCIENT PERU (167-1)
William Brooks, et al - ScienceNOW
Science Magazine (print edition) “Random Samples,” 23 October 2009 (p. 505) - TERROIR—THE RELATIONSHIP OF GEOLOGY, SOILS, HYDROLOGY, AND CLIMATE TO WINE: A SPECIAL TRIBUTE TO GEORGE MOORE (Session 270)
Session organizers: Scott Burns, et al - Seattle Times, et al (Associated Press)
- THE GIANT BOULDER TRAINS OF TIERRA DEL FUEGO AND THE ORIGIN OF “DARWIN'S BOULDERS” (88-4)
Edward Evanson, et al - Nature (paid content)
Scientific American (paid content) - First Global View of the Geology of Mercury: Dynamic Landscapes on the Innermost Planet (Session 197 - Pardee Keynote 4)
Session organizers: Louise Prockter and Sean Solomon - Nature (paid content)
- THE LUNAR CATACLYSM HYPOTHESIS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR THE ENTIRE SOLAR SYSTEM (135-1)
David Kring, et al - Cosmos
- A DETERMINATION OF PEAK DISCHARGE RATE AND WATER VOLUME FROM THE 1889 JOHNSTOWN FLOOD (76-10)
Davis Todd, et al - Science News
New York Times - THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE CONTEMPORANEOUS SHIVA IMPACT STRUCTURE AND DECCAN VOLCANISM AT THE KT BOUNDARY (50-9)
Sankar Chatterjee, et al - National Geographic News
Mumbai Mirror
Fox News
The Times of India
The Economist also interviewed Dr. Chatterjee – no information on publication yet received - FRACTURE TRACE-STRUCTURES: KEY TO DISCOVERY AND PRESERVATION OF TOMBS, VALLEY OF KINGS AND QUEENS, EGYPT (54-11)
Katarin Parizek, et al - USA Today Science Fair blog
- PALYNOLOGIC EVIDENCE FOR PRE-PTOLEMAIC SETTLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT (23-5)
Christopher Bernhardt, et al - MSNBC
- EXTENDING THE NORTH ATLANTIC HURRICANE RECORD USING SEISMIC NOISE (169-5)
Carl Ebeling and Seth Stein - Cosmos
- EVOLUTION OF FLOWERING PLANT PHYSIOLOGY TRIGGERED EXPANSION OF TROPICAL RAINFOREST (219-11)
Kevin Boyce and Jung-Eun LEE - Discovery News
- THE SAILING PEFORMANCE OF THE CRESTED PTERODACTYLOID TAPEJARA FROM THE EARLY CRETACEOUS OF BRAZIL (265-12)
Sankar Chatterjee, et al - Discovery Channel
- GEOCHEMISTRY OF ARSENIC HOTSPOTS IN MURSHIDABAD AND SURROUNDING AREAS IN WEST BENGAL, INDIA (174-9)
Andrew Neal, et al - Water Online
- PLEISTOCENE-AGE GIANT BEAVER (CASTOROIDES OHIOENSIS) AND EXTANT BEAVER (CASTOR CANADENSIS) ENVIRONMENTS OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN (94-4)
Catherine Yansa and Peter Jacobs - Science News
- A PROGRADE PLANETOID CAPTURE EPISODE ABOUT 3.95 GA AGO: IS THIS MODEL COMPATIBLE WITH THE INFORMATION FROM HADEAN- AND ARCHEAN-AGE DETRITAL ZIRCON CRYSTALS? (266-2)
Robert Malcuit - Discovery News
- MONITORING IMPACTS OF MASS-TRANSIT VEHICLES ON PARTICULATE MATTER CONCENTRATIONS IN URBAN ENVIRONMENTS USING MAGNETIC PROPERTIES OF TREE LEAVES: PILOT STUDY OF BUS AND BIKE ROUTES IN BELLINGHAM, WA (11-11)
Bernie Housen and Luigi Jovane - http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/48631/title/How_leaves_could_monitor_pollution
- FIRST OBSERVED ENTRANCES INTO MARTIAN TUBULAR CAVES (66-3)
Glen Cushing - Los Angeles Times
Space.com - TSUNAMI EVACUATION BUILDINGS AS A RISK MANAGEMENT SOLUTION (164-7)
Yumei Wang and Daniel Cox - National Geographic News
- EXTRATERRESTRIAL AND TERRESTRIAL SIGNATURES AT THE ONSET OF THE YOUNGER DRYAS (234-1)
Nicholas Pinter, et al - National Geographic News
- WORLD'S LONGEST SPELEOTHEM: NEW RESULTS FROM RADIOMETRIC DATING AND HYDROLOGIC OBSERVATIONS (150-7)
Lewis Land - Science news
- THE BEDROCK OF MONOTHEISM: THE GEOLOGY OF JERUSALEM AND ITS HISTORICAL AND RELIGIOUS IMPLICATIONS (194-1)
Michael Bramnick - Jerusalem Post
- STRUCTURAL INFLUENCES ON CASCADIA RUPTURE PATCHES AND WIDTH (273-5)
Chris Goldfinger, et al - Northwest Public Radio
- Geoheritages, Geoantiquities, and Geomorphosites (Session 125)
Session organizers: John F. Shroder and Marjorie A. Chan - Inside Science News Service (MinnPost.com)
- ROLE OF TOXIN-PRODUCING ALGAE IN PHANEROZOIC MASS EXTINCTIONS: EVIDENCE FROM MODERN ENVIRONMENTS AND THE GEOLOGIC RECORD (86-10)
James Castle and John Rodgers - MSNBC
