GSA Newsroom Archive
2007
- New Overview of Continental Crust Formation Incorporates Fourth Dimension
Rel. 07-71, 12 December
- Dakotas Continue to Yield Paleontological Treasures
Rel. 07-70, 11 December
- Southern Alaska: Tectonic Collisions and Crustal Growth
Rel. 07-69, 6 December
- Predicting Coastal Changes on a Changing Planet
Rel. 07-67, 15 November
- Caribbean Collisions: Exploring Tectonically Active Plate Margins
Rel. 07-66, 14 November 2007
- A Definitive Guide to the Great Mantle Plume Debate
Rel. 07-65, 13 November 2007
- 2007 GSA ANNUAL MEETING:
Only GSA releases are shown below.
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- Western Canada's Glaciers Hit 7000-Year Low
Rel. 07-61, 30 October 2007
- Dinosaur Deaths Outsourced to India?
Rel. 07-59, 29 October 2007
- Ancient Amphibians Left Full-Body Imprints
Rel. 07-60, 29 October 2007
- Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper and Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood Ceo Vicki Cowart to Speak This Evening at GSA Annual Meeting
Rel. 07-62, 29 October 2007
- Mars With Ice, Shaken, Not Stirred
Rel. 07-56, 26 October 2007
- Drugstore in the Dirt
Rel. 07-58, 25 October 2007
- Why Do Autumn Leaves Bother to Turn Red?
Rel. 07-57, 25 October 2007
- Exploring Boulder Creek And South Boulder Creek Ecosystems And Flood Hazards
Rel. 07-55, 22 October 2007
- Denver Then and Now: Geological Society of America Annual Meeting Next Week
Rel. 07-53, 22 October 2007
- Identifying America's Most Vulnerable Oceanfront Communities
Rel. 07-52, 19 October 2007
- Why are we Losing Louisiana?
Rel. 07-51, 15 October 2007
- Planetary Geoscience, Paleontology, and More at GSA Annual Meeting in Denver
Rel. 07-43, 19 September 2007
- GSA 2007 Annual Meeting: Denver, Colorado, 28-31 October
Rel. 07-29, 6 July 2007
- Understanding Mysterious Continental Intraplate Earthquakes
Rel. 07-50, 12 October 2007
- Mysteries of the Rheic Ocean Beginning to Unravel
Rel. 07-49, 9 October 2007
- International Earthcache Day Kicks Off Earth Science Week on Sunday, 14 October
Rel. 07-48, 8 October 2007
- Deborah Imel Nelson to Receive 2007 Henry F. Smyth, Jr., Award
Rel. 07-39, 8 October 2007
- Microfossils Disclose Geologic History of Eastern California
Rel. 07-47, 4 October 2007
- New Volume Chronicles Recent Insights into Earth's Interior
Rel. 07-46, 3 October 2007
- GSA Announces 2007 Medal & Award Winners:
- Penrose Medal: Kevin Charles Antony Burke
Rel. 07-34, 30 August 2007
- Day Medal and Public Service Award: Mary Lou Zoback
Rel. 07-35, 30 August 2007
- Young Scientist Award (Donath Medal): Carmala N. Garzione
Rel. 07-36, 30 August 2007
- Distinguished Service Award: Yildirim Dilek, Robert C. Thomas, and Nancy L. Carlson
Rel. 07-38, 30 August 2007
- Subaru Outstanding Woman in Science Award: Tanja Bosak
Rel. 07-37, 30 August 2007
- Geological Society of America to Open Washington Office
Rel. 07-40, 16 August 2007
- Abandoned Mines on Public Lands: Cleaning Up is Hard to Do
Rel. 07-26, 9 August 2007
- Mass Extinctions and the Marine Record
Rel. 07-33, 30 July 2007
- On Sorting Through Global Detritus and Discovering Former Earths
Rel. 07-31, 26 July 2007
- Public Congressional Briefings on Managing Drought
Rel. 07-30, 13 July 2007
- John M. (Jack) Sharp Assumes Geological Society of America Presidency
Rel. 07-24, 9 June 2007
- Judith Totman Parrish is New Geological Society of America Vice President
Rel. 07-25, 9 June 2007
- New Volume Presents Broad View of Geology of México
Rel. 07-27, 5 July 2007
- New Volume on Convergent Margin Processes Honors W.G. (Gary) Ernst
Rel. 07-20, 4 June 2007
- Definitive Evidence Found of a Swimming Dinosaur
Rel. 07-22, 22 May 2007
- Twenty Years of Yucca Mountain Research Now Available for Scientific Review
Rel. 07-11, 9 May 2007
- Geoscientists Discuss Energy Resources, Groundwater Quality, and Fossil Finds in Utah
Rel. 07-19, 30 April 2007
- Mount Baker, New Geologic Fault Near Bellingham, and More on Geoscientists' Agenda at Bellingham
Rel. 07-18, 23 April 2007
- Water Resources, Geoarcheology, and More on Agenda as Geologists Meet in Lawrence
Rel. 07-14, 6 April 2007
- Feathered Dinosaurs and Melting Glaciers Featured in Upcoming GSA GeoVentures
Rel. 07-13, 16 March 2007
- Volcanism in the Mediterranean: A Comprehensive View
Rel. 07-08, 9 March 2007
- GSA 2007 Southeastern Section Meeting Highlights
Rel. 07-10, 8 March 2007
- Climate Change, Health and Environment, and More at 2007 GSA Northeastern Section Meeting
Rel. 07-09, 1 March 2007
- Mud Volcano in Java May Continue to Erupt for Months and Possibly Years
Rel. 07-03, 23 January 2007
2006
- 2006 Annual Meeting (22-25 October)
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- New Theory for Mass Extinctions
GSA Rel. 06-52, 24 October 2006
- Trotting with Emus to Walk with Dinosaurs
GSA Rel. 06-51, 24 October 2006
- Amazon River Reversed Flow
GSA Rel. 06-50, 24 October 2006
- America's Energy and Resource Future
GSA Rel. 06-53, 24 October 2006
- New Evidence of Early Horse Domestication
GSA Rel. 06-49, 20 October 2006
- Global Warming and Your Health
GSA Rel. 06-48, 19 October 2006
- Far More Than a Meteor Killed Dinos
GSA Rel. 06-47, 17 October 2006
- Energy Resources, Climate Change, Coastal Issues at GSA Annual Meeting in Philadelphia This Month
Rel. 06-43, 6 October 2006
- GSA 2006 Annual Meeting: Philadelphia, PA, 22-25 October
Rel. 06-25, 14 July 2006
- Earth Science Week Kicks Off at International EarthCache Day, Washington, D.C.
Rel. 06-42, 27 September 2006
- Where Global Warming Meets the Faucet
Rel. 06-40, 19 September 2006
- Droughts and Reservoirs: Finding Storage Space Underground
Rel. 06-39, 18 September 2006
- Getting Real: Drought as the "New Normal"
Rel. 06-38, 14 September 2006
- GSA Conference to Address Managing Drought and Water Scarcity
Rel. 06-34, 10 August 2006
- Frank M. Richter to Receive GSA 2006 Arthur L. Day Medal
Rel. 06-33, 8 August 2006
- Elizabeth Catlos to Receive GSA 2006 Young Scientist Award
Rel. 06-28, 8 August 2006
- Elizabeth S. Cochran to Receive GSA 2006 Subaru Outstanding Woman in Science Award
Rel. 06-32, 7 August 2006
- Robert D. Hatcher, Jr., to Receive GSA 2006 Penrose Medal
Rel. 06-31, 7 August 2006
- Dick Kerr to Receive Geological Society of America 2006 Public Service Award
Rel. 06-29, 2 August 2006
- New Study Fuels Louisiana Subsidence Controversy
Rel. 06-26, 21 July 2006
- Augustine Volcano Eruptions, Glacier Thinning, and More at Geosciences Meeting in Anchorage
Rel. 06-19, 5 May 2006
- More Evidence Chicxulub Was Too Early
Rel. 06-14, 29 March 2006
- Mega Eruption of Yellowstone's Southern Twin
Rel. 06-13, 28 March 2006
- Sumatra Megaquake Defied Theory
Rel. 06-12, 27 March 2006
- Geoscientists Discuss Groundwater Contamination, Climate Issues, and More in Knoxville
Rel. 06-10, 17 March 2006
- Environmental Issues, Hazards, and Forensic Geology on Geoscientists' Agenda in Camp Hill/Harrisburg
Rel. 06-09, 16 March 2006
- A New Look at the Cordilleras of the Americas
Rel. 06-08, 10 March 2006
2005
- Geosphere, New GSA Electronic Journal, Now Available Online
Rel. 05-31, 13 September 2005
- Are Hurricanes Increasing? Ask A Georgia Pine Tree
Rel. 05-28, 10 August 2005
- India's Smoking Gun: Dino-Killing Eruptions
Rel. 05-27, 9 August 2005
- New Window into Ancient Ozone Holes
Rel. 05-26, 9 August 2005
- Meteor Impacts: Life's Jump Starter?
Rel. 05-25, 8 August 2005
- "Earth System Processes 2:" An Updated Look at How the Earth Works
Rel. 05-22, 27 June 2005
- 2005 Annual Meeting News Releases
Only GSA Annual meeting releases are shown below.
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- Is America's Oil Age Already Waning?
Rel. 05-42, 14 October 2005
- Antievolutionism Addressed by Top Geoscientists and Educators
Rel. 05-41, 14 October 2005
- Geoscientists and Educators Take On Antievolutionists
Rel. 05-40, 14 October 2005
- Disaster Lessons: What You Don't Know Can Kill You
Rel. 05-39, 14 October 2005
- Wright Bros. Upstaged! Dinos Invented Biplanes
Rel. 05-38, 14 October 2005
- Mars' Climate in Flux: Mid-Latitude Glaciers
Rel. 05-37, 14 October 2005
- Space Enthusiasts Invited to Hear Top Scientists from the Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn in Salt Lake City Next Week
Rel. 05-36, 11 October 2005
- "An Eye On Katrina: Geoscience Perspectives on a Catastrophic Hurricane" at GSA Annual Meeting Next Week
Rel. 05-35, 10 October 2005
- MEDIA ADVISORY: Geological Society of America Meeting in Salt Lake City Next Week
Rel. 05-34, 10 October 2005
- Late-breaking Geoscience on Hurricane Katrina, and More, at GSA Annual Meeting Next Month
Rel. 05-33, 29 September 2005
- GSA 2005 Annual Meeting: Salt Lake City, Utah, 16-19 October
Rel. 05-24, 26 July 2005
- Climate Change, Ground Water Sustainability, and More at GSA North-Central Section Meeting
Rel. 05-18, 11 May 2005
- Energy Issues, Water Quality, Earthquakes and Other Hazards, and More on Agenda at Joint GSA-AAPG Meeting Next Week
Rel. 05-17, 22 April 2005
- South-Central Section to Meet in San Antonio Next Week
Rel. 05-11, 24 March 2005
- A New Look at the Emerging Earth System Processes Paradigm
Rel. 05-09, 14 March 2005
- Scientists Discuss Tsunamis, Other Coastal and Marine Issues, Next Week at GSA Southeastern Section Meeting
Rel. 05-08, 10 March 2005
- Geoscientists Meet Next Week in Saratoga Springs; Public Forum on Hudson River Clean-Up Monday Evening
Rel. 05-07, 9 March 2005
- University of West Georgia participates in GSA Meeting
re: Southeastern Section Meeting
University of West Georgia release, 25 February 2005
- GC&SU Professor and Graduate Student Illuminate Georgia's Ice Age History
re: Southeastern Section Meeting
Georgia College & State University release, 9 March 2005
- GeoScienceWorld Launches Portal and Signs Third Reseller
GSW release, 28 February 2005
- GeoScienceWorld Launches Portal of 30 Leading Geoscience Journals and GeoRef
GSW release, 7 February 2005
- New Geologic Map of North America Illustrates Discoveries and Advances in Geoscience
Rel. 05-04, 1 February 2005
2004
- Geosphere, New Geological Society of America Electronic Journal, to Debut First Quarter 2005
Rel. 04-39, 21 December 2004
- When Earth Turned Bad: New Evidence Supports Terrestrial Cause of End-Permian Mass Extinction
Rel. 04-38, 30 November 2004
- GSA 2004 Annual Meeting: Denver, Colorado, 7-10 Nov.
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Releases from GSA listed below:
- Tumbleweeds Good for Uranium Clean-Up
Rel. 04-33, 5 November 2004
- Seismosaur Cut Down To Size
Rel. 04-32, 5 November 2004
- Honeybees Defy Dino-Killing "Nuclear Winter"
Rel. 04-31, 5 November 2004
- Titanic Disaster: New Theory Fingers Coal Fire
Rel. 04-30, 5 November 2004
- Earliest Tracks of 4-Legged Stroll
Rel. 04-29, 5 November 2004
- Top Mars Exploration Scientists to Speak in Denver Tuesday, 9 November 2004
Rel. 04-27, 21 October 2004
- 2004 GSA Annual Meeting - Media Advisory
Rel. 04-24, 30 August 2004
- Virtual Student Expo Initiated by AAPG, GSA, SEG and SPE
Rel. 04-25, August 14, 2004
- Geoscience World Appoints Executive Director Selects HighWire Press to Build its New Portal
Rel. 04-20, July 13, 2004
- Biogeoscience.org Launches
Rel. 04-17, June 8, 2004
- Yellowstone Hot Spot a Hot Topic at GSA Meeting in Boise
Rel. 04-15, May 3, 2004
- Tip Sheet: Geoscientists Discuss River Management Issues and Earthquake Hazards in St. Louis This Week
Rel. 04-12, March 31, 2004
- Tip Sheet: Joint Meeting, Northeastern-Southeastern Sections, GSA
Rel. 04-11, March 23, 2004
- Geoscientists Report on Environment, Climate, and Public Policy Issues in Washington, DC, This Month
Rel. 04-10, March 15, 2004
- Dragons of the Air: Pterosaurs Flew with Smart Wings
Rel. 04-08, March 15, 2004
- New Web Site for Biogeoscience Community Announced
Rel. 04-07, March 1, 2004
- GeoScienceWorld to Launch - Online Access to Leading Journals in the Earth Sciences
Rel. 04-03, January 21, 2004
2003
- Geoscience Horizons
GSA 2003 Annual Meeting:
Seattle, Washington, Nov. 2-5
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Releases from GSA listed below:
- Isotopes From Feathers Reveal Bird Migrations
Rel. 03-39, November 5, 2003
- World's Most Alkaline Life Forms Found Near Chicago
Rel. 03-38, November 4, 2003
- Extraterrestrial Enigma: Missing Amino Acids In Meteorites
Rel. 03-37, November 3, 2003
- Sand Ripples Taller On Mars
Rel. 03-36, November 3, 2003
- Climate Change in the Vineyards: The Taste of Global Warming
Rel. 03-35, November 3, 2003
- Water on the Gaza Strip: Time Bomb or Ray of Hope?
Rel. 03-34, November 3, 2003
- The Road First Traveled: Peopling of the New World
Rel. 03-33, November 2, 2003
- A New Look at Neoproterozoic Earth
Rel. 03-32, October 28, 2003
- Debate Heats Up on Role of Climate in Human Evolution
Rel. 03-31, October 27, 2003
- Media Advisory:
Wildland Fire Impacts on Watersheds
A Special Conference of The Geological Society of America
Rel. 03-27, October 14, 2003
- GSA Meets in Seattle, Nov. 2-5, 2003
Rel. 03-22, July 18, 2003
- Wildland Fire Impacts on Watersheds: A Special Conference of The Geological Society of America
Rel. 03-21, July 18, 2003
- Geologists Discuss Area Prehistoric Cultures and Regional Wildfire at Meeting This Week in Durango
Rel. 03-12, May 7, 2003
- GSA Cordilleran Section Meets This Week in Puerto Vallarta
Rel. 03-09, March 31, 2003
- Joint Meeting of Atlantic Geoscience Society and GSA NE Section
Rel. 03-08, March 26, 2003
- GSA North-Central Section Meets This Week in Kansas City
Rel. 03-07, March 24, 2003
- GSA Southeastern and South-Central Sections Meet This Week in Memphis
Rel. 03-06, March 10, 2003
- Biting Rocks and Pondering Pancakes: Earth Science Education Gets Big Boost from Englewood Teacher
Rel. 03-01, January 14, 2003
2002
- Scientists Discover Ancient Protein and DNA Sequences in the Same Fossil
Rel. 02-54, November 14, 2002
- The Geological Society of America 2002 Annual Meeting: "Science at the Highest Level"
- GSA Got Noticed!
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- Evolution Upset: Oxygen-Making Microbes Came Last, Not First
Rel. 02-44, October 25, 2002
- Sounding Europa On the Cheap: Eavesdropping On Ice
Rel. 02-45, October 25, 2002
- Sod Busters Along the Old Cambrian Trail
Rel. 02-47, October 25, 2002
- Can Geologists Bridge the Gap Between Islamic Countries and the Western World?
Rel. 02-48, October 25, 2002
- Inside Fossil Embryos of Earth's Earliest Animals
Rel. 02-52, October 25, 2002
- Hidden Face of Mars Uncovered by Father & Daughter
Rel. 02-53, October 25, 2002
- Media Advisory
Rel. 02-41, September 4, 2002
- Columbia University Study Ties the Frequency of Earthquakes to Ocean Tides
Rel. 02-33, May 28, 2002
- Another Cascade Range Volcano May Be Coming to Life
Rel. 02-31, May 13, 2002
- Recent Dinosaur Discoveries in Utah and Wyoming
Rel. 02-29, May 7, 2002
- Are There Diamonds in Iron Mountain?
Rel. 02-28, May 7, 2002
- Geologists to Discuss Landslide Hazards
Rel. 02-27, May 7, 2002
- Water Issues in West Texas
Rel. 02-23, April 11, 2002
- Where Have All the Grasses Gone? Eco-Trouble in Texas' Big Bend National Park
Rel. 02-22, April 11, 2002
- A New Way to Sleuth Dinosaur Bones
Rel. 02-21, April 11, 2002
- Impact Events' Kinetic Energy May Be Key to Understanding the Severity of Mass Extinctions
Rel. 02-19, April 3, 2002
- Human Ancestor Australopithecus Did Indeed Walk Upright
Rel. 02-18, April 3, 2002
- Mississippi and Missouri River Flood Levels Underestimated
Rel. 02-17, April 3, 2002
- Geology and the Civil War: the Battle of Chickamauga
Rel. 02-16, April 3, 2002
- Was Poet Emily Dickinson a Closet Geologist?
Rel. 02-15, March 25, 2002
- Alaskan Terrane Shared Seaway with Siberia and Ural Mountains
Rel. 02-13, March 25, 2002
- Rock Solid Evidence of Manicouagan Impact Causing Earthquake
Rel. 02-12, March 25, 2002
- Hiroshima Porcelain Pieces Provide Insight into Exposure Levels
Rel. 02-12, March 25, 2002
- Geologists Find Hidden Active Strands of the Seattle Fault Zone
Rel. 02-09, February 7, 2002
- Philosophy of the Guessing Game of Geology: How Do We Guess?
Rel. 02-07, January 25, 2002
- A Rising Force: New Study on Ancient Mantle Plumes
Rel. 02-06, January 25, 2002
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- What Are Those Big Jellyfish Fossils Doing in Wisconsin?
Rel. 02-05, January 23, 2002
- The K-T Impact Extinctions: Dust Didn't Do It
Rel. 02-04, January 23, 2002
2001
- Lowering Rates of Beach Erosion: Estuaries may be Key
Rel. 01-67, December 10, 2001
- Scientist Anticipates Major Eruption of Peru's El Misti Volcano
Rel. 01-66, December 10, 2001
- Arctic Gakkel Ridge Eruption Reveals Magma from Earth's Mantle
Rel. 01-64, December 3, 2001
- A Curve Ball into the Snowball Earth Hypothesis?
Rel. 01-63, December 3, 2001
- New GSA Publication on Ophiolites and Oceanic Crust
Rel. 01-43, October 30, 2001
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- 2001 Annual Meeting:
- Finding Life In The Solar System: A New Synthesis
Rel. 01-51, November 8, 2001
- Geological Myth Busting: Extraterrestrials Really Don't Impact Volcanoes?
Rel. 01-52, November 8, 2001
- Early Critters in Microbial Mats: Evolution or Just a Strange Environment?
Rel. 01-53, November 8, 2001
- Volcanoes Still Active on Mars? New Evidence for Ongoing Volcanism and Water Release
Rel. 01-54, November 8, 2001
- Discovery of Buried Impact Craters on Mars Widens Possibility of an Ancient Martian Ocean
Rel. 01-56, November 8, 2001
- All in the Family: Scientists Find Mother and Daughter Asteroids
Rel. 01-59, November 8, 2001
- Chinese Art And The Rise Of Modern Geology: East Versus West
Rel. 01-50, November 7, 2001
- Why the Big Animals Went Down in the Pleistocene-Was it Just the Climate?
Rel. 01-55, November 7, 2001
- Geologists Delineate Ancient Harbor of Troy
Rel. 01-58, November 7, 2001
- Seawall Erosion: Are Some Walls Okay?
Rel. 01-46, November 5, 2001
- A Fish Named Wayne-Wanda?
Rel. 01-47, November 5, 2001
- New Evidence for Sea-Level Rise along the Coasts of Maine and Nova Scotia
Rel. 01-48, November 5, 2001
- Media Advisory 2
Boston 2001: A Geo-Odyssey
Rel. 01-45, November 1, 2001
- Media Advisory 1
Boston 2001: A Geo-Odyssey
Rel. 01-38, August 30, 2001
- Denver Teacher Impacts K-12 Geoscience Education
Through GSA
Rel. 01-39, September 4, 2001
- Permian Extraterrestrial Impact Caused Largest Mass
Extinction on Earth
Rel. 01-37, August 24, 2001
- The Ancients Were Right - Delphi Was A Gas!
Rel. 01-34, August 6, 2001
- Earth System Processes
- Read the media coverage
- Amazon Rainforest Could be Unsustainable
Within A Decade
Rel. 01-20, June 21, 2001
- How Trees Changed The World
Rel. 01-21, June 21, 2001
- Subglacial Volcanoes (And Life?) On Mars
Rel. 01-22, June 21, 2001
- Venus Holds Clues To Finding Earth's
Platinum And Diamonds
Rel. 01-23, June 21, 2001
- Where There's Soup, There's Life
Rel. 01-24, June 21, 2001
- The Goldilocks Effect: How Other Earths
Form Just Right
Rel. 01-25, June 21, 2001
- A Disturbance In the "Force" Caused the
K-T Impact?
Rel. 01-26, June 21, 2001
- Mass Extinction At The Triassic-Jurassic
Boundary: Where's The Smoking Gun?
Rel. 01-27, June 21, 2001
- I've Looked At Clouds (And Global Weather)
From Both Sides Now: A Perspective From The Warm Pool
Rel. 01-28, June 21, 2001
- Does Nessie Stir When The Earth Shakes?
Rel. 01-29, June 21, 2001
- Wheels Within Wheels: Rare Orbital Anomaly
May Have Caused Global Cooling 23 Million Years Ago
Rel. 01-30, June 21, 2001
- Snowball Fight In Edinburgh
Rel. 01-31, June 21, 2001
- Climate Change And Coral Reefs
Rel. 01-32, June 21, 2001
- Scientists Share Multidisciplinary Discoveries at "Earth System Processes"
Rel. 01-18, June 14, 2001
- International Scientists Probe Unsolved Puzzles of the Earth and Beyond at "Earth System Processes"
Rel. 01-17, May 25, 2001
- Two of the World's Oldest Earth Science Organizations Collaborate in Study of Planet Earth and Beyond
Rel. 01-02, February 2, 2001
- 2001 Section Meetings
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