GSIS Activities:
Schedule
of Events
Sunday, November 2
Time |
Event |
Place |
| 8:00 a.m.-11:50 p.m. |
Geoscience Information/Communication Discipline
Oral Session (AESE): Challenges
in Geoscience Publishing; Perspectives of Communicating Geoscience
to Scientists and to the General Public |
Washington State Convention and Trade Center
204
|
| 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. |
Geoscience
Information/Communication Posters |
Washington State Convention and Trade Center
Hall 4-F |
| 12:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m. |
GSIS
Executive Board Meeting |
Sheraton Cedar |
| 4:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. |
GSA Presidential Address& Awards Ceremony |
Washington State Convention and Trade Center
|
| 6:00 p.m.-8:30 p.m. |
GSA Welcoming Party & Exhibit Hall Opening |
Washington State Convention and Trade Center
|
Monday, November 3
Tuesday, November 4
Time |
Event |
Place |
| 8:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m. |
GeoRef/Digital
Forum |
Sheraton Aspen |
| 12:00 p.m.- 1:30 p.m. |
GSIS Luncheon & Awards |
Sheraton West
Ballroom B |
| 1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. |
GSIS
Business Meeting (Beverages courtesy of Springer-Verlag) |
Sheraton Aspen |
| 7:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. |
GSIS Reception (Sponsored by Elsevier)
and Silent Auction!
|
Sheraton Aspen |
Wednesday, November 5
Thursday, November 6
Time |
|
Place |
| 8:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. |
Part 1: Glacial Geology & Seismic Hazards
of the Puget Sound |
Ferry |
| 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. |
Part 2: Lunch (on your own) |
Pioneer Square |
| 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. |
Part 3: Seattle Underground Tour |
Downtown Seattle |
Other meetings of interest:
T33 Beyond Google: Strategies for Developing
Information-Literate Geoscience Students (Posters) (Geoscience
Educators) Tuesday, 11/4, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m..
T45I Geological and Geophysical Databases:
What We Have and What We Need. I. Tuesday, 11/4, 8:00-12:00.
T45II Geological and Geophysical Databases:
What We Have and What We Need.II Tuesday, 11/4, 1:30-5:30.
T47 Design & Development of XML-based,
Discipline-Specific, Geological Markup Languages, and Development
of Applications. Tuesday, 11/4, 8:00 a.m.-12:00.
T49 The National Geologic Map Database
(Posters), Monday, 11/3, 1:30-5:30.
Paper No.
101-7 The Heringen Collection of the US Geological Survey Library,
Monday, 3:00 p.m.-3:15 p.m., Convention & Trade Center 210, by
Lee Hadden.
Earth Science Week meeting:
Hosted by AGI staff. Monday, November 3, 2003 from 1-3pm in the Sheraton
West Ballroom A. Everyone is invited to attend! To be discussed: This
year’s Earth Science Week and suggestions to improve the week
in the future.
Link to other GSA
Technical Session Information
Topical Session
T48. (Session No. 76)
Geoscience Information Horizons:
Challenges, Choices, and Decisions
Link
to Schedule and Abstracts on GSA's Web site
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Field Trip: Seismic
In Seattle!
1. The ferry leaves at
8:45 a.m., so everyone should be there by 8:30 a.m.
2. The Seattle Underground
tour is booked for 1:30 p.m.
As of 10/29/03, 20 people
are signed on and the group is limited to 45.
Note: Participants are
responsible for getting to the ferry. It is about a 12 block walk from
the convention/hotel area, or participants can share cabs.
The trip is in three parts so folks can participate
in any part(s) they'd like and leave when they need to.
Part 1: "The Glacial Geology and Seismic Hazards of the Puget Lowland,"
led by geologist Tim Walsh (head of the Environmental Geology section
of the Washington Division of Geology and Earth Resources). Take the
Seattle to Bremerton ferry, over the Seattle fault, past Restoration
Pt. (site of uplift from the 1100 ybp earthquake on the Seattle fault),
past the glacially-deposited, landslide-prone shores of Puget Sound.
8:30 to 11:30; fee $15.
Part 2: Lunch in historic Pioneer Square (on your own) 11:30 to 1:00
Part 3: The Seattle Underground Tour-Visit the spooky city that lies
beneath Seattle's present street level. The subterranean walkways are
dry, but the history is not. Learn about Seattle's colorful past; how
the Founding Fathers' squabbling led to Seattle's complicated street
system, and how the solutions to our unique plumbing problems affected
the town's elevation. (This is one of Seattle's most popular attractions--
and A Real Hoot!) 1:30 to 3:30; fee $10.
There is no limit to the number who can attend: the ferry holds quite
a few people, there are plenty of restaurants in Pioneer Square, and
the Underground Tour can accommodate just about any number. If we have
at least 10 people, we can get a private tour and pick our own hour.
Sign Up Now!
Name: _________________________________________
e-mail address: __________________________________
Ferry tour only: $15; Underground tour only: $10; Both:$25
Please mail this form and your check to: Connie Manson, 2525 Sleater
Kinney Road N.E., Olympia, WA 98506
GSIS Exhibit Booth
Theme:
Digitization in GeoScience Libraries
Booth #736
Please volunteer to
help staff the booth!
Silent Auction
The GSIS International Initiatives
Committee will hold a Silent Auction at the GSIS
Reception (Tuesday November 4th, 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.). "The
goal of the silent auction is to raise funds for the International
Fellowship." Please participate by contributing items and participating
in the bidding.
Dedy Ward, a founding
member of GIS (now GSIS), is donating one of his paintings for the
GSIS Silent Auction. "Dedy's oils are impressionistic landscapes
painted in the field...He has had shows in Seattle's Friesen Gallery
and in other galleries in the northwest." For more information
see: <http://friesengallery.com/artists/bio/s_ward_bio.html>
and <http://www.scottmilo.com/html/dederick_ward.html>.
Thanks to Dedy Ward for his contribution!
Awards
Best Paper Award:
Charlotte R. M. Derksen
"USGS publications: Current access via the Web and via catalogs"
GSIS Proceedings, 2002, v. 32, p. 107-116.
The Ansari Best Refernce
Work Award:
Paul Murdin (Editor-in-Chief)
Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2001
Publisher: IOP
Publishing Ltd. and Nature Publishing Group
Outstanding
Website Award:
Dr. Sam Gon III
A Guide to the Orders of Trilobites
http://www.aloha.net/~smgon/ordersoftrilobites.htm
GSA 2003 Meeting
2003
GSA Annual Meeting & Exposition, November 2-5, 2003
GSA
Technical Session Information
Seattle and Area:
GSA/GSIS
Guide to Getting Around Seattle
GSA/GSIS
Seattle 2003 Guide to Dining
GSA/GSIS
Seattle 2003 Guide to Shopping and Neighborhoods
Seattle-Tacoma
International Airport (Sea-Tac)
Map;
Airport Vicinity
City
of Seattle
Downtown
Map
GSA
Lodging Information
Washington
State Convention & Trade Center
The
Sheraton Seattle Hotel and Towers
Weather
- NOAA
WSDOT
Traffic & Weather
Sponsors
of GSIS Events -- Thanks!!
| GSIS Reception: Sponsored by Elsevier
Science |
|
| GSIS Business Meeting Beverages:
Sponsored by Springer-Verlag |
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Created 8/24/03 lej
Comments to UIUC
Geology Library
Last update:11/20/03
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