Quaternary Geologist & Geomorphologist
Quaternary Geologist & Geomorphologist
Newsletter of the Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division http://rock.geosociety.org/qgg
October 2010
Volume 51, No. 2
Scenes from the QG&G-sponsored Kirk Bryan Fieldtrip at last year’s annual meeting in Portland. Names of participants witheld to protect the guilty; but the choir director in the top photo appears to be the QG&G division Treasurer. QG&G-related attractions awating participants in this year’s annual meeting are inside, beginning on page 4.
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Quaternary Geology & Geomorphology Division Officers and Panel Members – 2009/10 Officers – 6 Members, three of whom serve one-year terms: Chair, First Vice-Chair, and Second Vice-Chair; and three of whom serve two-year terms: Secretary, Treasurer, and Newsletter Editor/Webmaster. Management Board – 8 Members: Division officers and the Chair of the preceding year; also includes the Historian as an ex officio member.
CHAIR: Paul Bierman Geology Department University of Vermont Burlington, VT 05405 [email protected]
1st VICE-CHAIR: P. Kyle House Nevada Bureau of Mines & Geology 1664 N. Virginia St., MS 178 University of Nevada Reno, NV 89557 [email protected] 2nd VICE-CHAIR Sara Rathburn Department of Geosciences Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523-1482 [email protected] SECRETARY: Jon J. Major U.S. Geological Survey 1300 SE Cardinal Court Building 10, Suite 100 Vancouver, WA 98683 [email protected] Treasurer: Scott F. Burns Department of Geology Portland State University PO Box 751 Portland, OR 97207-0751 [email protected]
Newsletter Ed./ Webmaster: Dennis Dahms Department of Geography East Gym #215 University of Northern Iowa Cedar Falls, IA 50614-0406 [email protected] Past Chair: Marith Reheis U.S. Geological Survey, MS 980 Federal Center, Box 25046 Denver, CO 80225 [email protected] Historian: (Appointed by the Chair in consultation with the Management Board) P. Thompson Davis Professor, Geology & Climatology Dept of Natural Sciences Bentley University Waltham, MA 02452-4705 [email protected] PANEL MEMBERS 2008-2010 Panel Faith Fitzpatrick, [email protected] Jennifer Pierce, [email protected] Tom Pierson, [email protected] 2009-2011 Panel Yvonne Martin, [email protected] Dave Wilkins, [email protected] Yehouda Enzel, [email protected]
2010 JTPC Representatives: P. Kyle House Nevada Bureau of Mines & Geology 1664 N. Virginia St., MS 178 University of Nevada Reno, NV 89557 Paul Bierman Geology Department University of Vermont Burlington, VT 05405
GSA Councilors/QG&G Division Liaisons: (Appointed by the GSA President)
Monica Gowan Wesley Hill
QG&G Award Funds Current Status and Appeal One of the many ramifications of the current economic crisis directly impacts your Division. The various Foundation funds that provide monetary awards for the QG&G student and professional awards, just like your own investments, have been severely impacted by the stock market losses and on average are valued well below their worth of two years ago. Because GSA calculates the distribution amount for awards based on the value of these funds two years ago, the amount available for most of these funds in 2010 and beyond cannot sustain past award levels until principals are rebuilt. Thus in 2010 (calculated from balances in Nov. 2008) we will be forced to reduce the amounts of the Kirk Bryan Award (from $5000 to $3000) and the Gladys W. Cole Award (from $9900 to $7500), unless we receive direct pass-through donations to supplement these amounts. We do not intend to reduce the student awards (Howard, Mackin, and the new Morisawa), and will supplement them as necessary from Division funds. You can help alleviate the impact of future reductions by donating to these award funds, particularly the three student awards, the Kirk Bryan, and the Cole: go online to the GSA website, click on “Foundation”, then “Donate”, and finally the fund of your choice. And please stay tuned for more information on pass-through donations and financial updates. The QG&G Management Board
Incoming QG&G Management Board and Panel Members for 2011 The election for 2010-11 QG&G officers closed on July 14, 2010. In that election, 10.1% of the QG&G members eligible to vote cast ballots. On the basis of that election, the 2010-11 QG&G management board will consist of: Kyle House, Chair Sara Rathburn, 1st Vice Chair Jim O’Connor, 2nd Vice Chair Jon Major, Secretary Scott Burns, Treasurer Dennis Dahms, Newsletter Editor/Webmaster Thom Davis, Historian Paul Bierman, Past Chair Continuing 2009-2011 panel members are:
Yvonne Martin, David Wilkins, Yehouda Enzel Newly elected 2010-2012 panel members are: Karen Gran, Tammy Rittenour, Anne Jefferson The board extends its thanks to outgoing panel members Jennifer Pierce, Tom Pierson, and Faith Fitzpatick, and to all who stood as candidates for election.
QG&G DIVISION AWARDS - 2010 The following awardees were selected to receive the QG&G Division annual awards. The awards will be given at our annual awards ceremony on Tuesday, November 2nd, 7-11pm in the Colorado Convention Center, Four Seasons Ballroom 4.
—Kirk Bryan Award— The Kirk Bryan Award for Research Excellence was established in 1951. The award is given for a publication of distinction (within the past 5 years). The 2010 award will be presented to Rolfe Mandel, Kansas Geological Survey, for his paper ‘Buried paleo-indian landscapes in stream valleys of the central plains, USA’: Geomorphology, v. 101, p. 342-361.
—Distinguished Career Award— The Distinguished Career Award, established in 1985, is presented to Quaternary geologists and geomorphologists who have demonstrated excellence in their contributions to science. The 2010 award will be presented to Vic Baker, University of Arizona.
Farouk El-Baz —Award for Desert Research— The Farouk El-Baz Research Award, established in 1999, is given for outstanding work in the field of warm desert research. The 2010 award will be presented to Xiaoping Yang, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Gladys W. Cole Memorial Award The Gladys W. Cole Memorial Research Award is restricted to investigation of the geomorphology of semiarid and arid terrains in the United States and Mexico. It is given each year to a GSA Member or
Fellow between 30 and 65 years of age who has published one or more significant papers in geomorphology. The Fund was established in 1980 by Dr. W. Storrs Cole in memory of his wife. The 2010 award will be presented to Kathleen Nicoll, University of Utah, for ‘Revisiting G.K. Gilbert’s ‘Great Bar at Stockton, Utah’—documenting a site in peril’.
── Student Research Awards ── Our Division offers three student awards: The J. Hoover Mackin Research Award was created in 1974 to support graduate student research in Quaternary geology or geomorphology. The Arthur D. Howard Research Award was established in 1992 to support graduate student research in Quaternary geography or geomorphology. The Marie Morisawa Award was established in 2006 to support a promising female graduate student in geomorphology.
—— J. Hoover Mackin Award —— The 2010 Mackin Award for Ph.D. research wlill be presented to Juan Luis Garcia, University of Maine, for ‘Holocene history of the southeastern outlet glaciers, Hielo Patagónico Sur, in Torres del Paine National Park (51°S), Southern Patagonia, Chile’. Honorable mention: Matthew Jungers, Arizona State University, for ‘Life After Faulting: Posttectonic Evolution of Southeastern Arizona’s Basin and Range’.
— The Marie Morisawa Award — The 2010 Marie Morisawa Award will be given to Britta J.L. Jensen, University of Alberta, for ‘A chronostratigraphic framework for the middle Pleistocene in eastern Beringia’. Honorable Mention: Erica Bigio, University of Arizona, for ‘Reconstruction of the fire and alluvial sedimentation history using tree-ring and alluvial sediment methods’.
— Arthur D. Howard Research Award — The 2010 Howard Award for M.S. research will be given to Ryan W. Wood, San Jose State University, for ‘Transient hillslope response to a knickpoint sweeping up a watershed’. Honorable Mention: Serin Duplantis, Portland State University, for ‘Landslide Inventory Mapping and Dating using LiDAR-based Imaging and Roughness Modeling in Clackamas County, Oregon’.
Robert K. Fahnestock Memorial Award The Fahnestock award honors the memory of the former member of the Research Grants Committee, who died indirectly as a result of service on the committee. The award is given for the best proposal in sediment transport or related aspects of fluvial geomorphology. The 2010 recipient will be Erica Bigio, University of Arizona, for ‘Reconstruction of the fire and alluvial sedimentation history using tree-ring and alluvial sediment methods’.
-- The John Montagne Fund -The Montagne fund was established in 2000 to support one student’s research in Quaternary Geology or Geomorphology. The 2010 recipient will be Kerry Riley, Boise State University.
UPCOMING MEETINGS — Denver 2010 GSA Annual Meeting — At the 2010 annual meeting, the Division will sponsor 2 Pardee sessions, 3 named award lectures, the intrameeting Kirk Bryan Field Trip, 3 pre- and postmeeting field trips, and will co-sponsor 44 topical sessions. Pardee Keynote Symposia P6: Seeing the true shape of Earth’s surface: applications of airborne and terrestrial LiDAR in the Geosciences P7: Impacts of ocean acidification: the other CO2 crisis Topical Sessions T3: The Hydrogeological Effects of Urbanization T17: Geologic Maps, Digital Geologic Maps, and Derivatives from Geologic and Geophysical Maps (Posters) T19: New Approaches to Addressing Earthquake Hazards and Cost-Effective Mitigation Policies in the Mid-Continent T22: Exposing Myths and Misrepresentations of Climate Change and Evolution Science: Strategies and Case Studies for Geoscientists, Educators, Policy Makers, and the Press T23. Reconstructing Interactions between Humans and the Natural Environment during the Holocene T24. Sediments and Settlements
T25. The Geoenvironmental Context of Human Migrations T28. Engineering and Environmental Impacts of Evaporite Karst Processes T29. Landslides, Debris Flow, and Rock Fall: Reaching New Peaks in Research and Monitoring T30. Motion of Landslides, Debris Flows, and Avalanches T31. Secondary Processes of Landslides T32. Seeing the True Shape of Earth's Surface: Applications of Airborne and Terrestrial LiDAR in the Geosciences T33. Debris Flows: From Hazard Mitigation to Landscape Evolution T52. Karst Environments: Problems, Management, Human Impact, and Environmental Sustainability (Posters) T55. Environmental Geology of Oil Shale and Tar Sands T60. Volcanic and Landscape Evolution of the Jemez Mountains Volcanic Field T69. Innovative Techniques and Applications for Detrital Thermo- and Geochronologic Data T82. Geology in the National Forests and Grasslands — Stewardship, Education, and Research T86. Transformative Science in the Himalaya and Tibet: Insight from Geophysical, Geochemical, and Geologic Studies T96. Glacier National Park Centennial: 100 Years of Science and Scenery T97. Temporal Trends in Anthropogenic Contaminants from Lacustrine, Coastal, and Marine Sediment Cores: The Good, the Bad, and the Future T98. African Lakes and Paleolakes: Processes, Paleoenvironments, and Paleoclimate T105. Impact Cratering: From the Lab to the Field; from the Earth to the Planets T107. Field Geology on Other Planets: An Emerging Science T110. Mountain Formation and Landscape Evolution in the Solar System: Implications for the Origin of Life T118. Filling the Hole: Sedimentary Geology and Paleontology of Caves and Karst T119. Holocene Paleoclimate Records from Western North America: Exploring Pacific Influences T125. Terrestrial Laser Scanning: Applications in Geology and Geomorphology T126. Exploring Spatial and Temporal Variability of Latest Pleistocene and Holocene Alpine Glacier Fluctuations T127. Timing of Pleistocene glaciation in the North American Cordillera T129. OIS 4 and 3 Were Bigger Than You Think — Geomorphic Evidence from Glacial, Fluvial, Lacustrine, and Eolian Records
T130. Dunes, Loess, and Dust: Paleo- and Modern Perspectives on Activation, Stratigraphy, and Processes T131. Cenozoic Landscape Evolution of the Rocky Mountain–Colorado Plateau Region: The Colorado River System from the Rockies through Grand Canyon to the Gulf of California T132. Fluvial Sediment Movement into the Twenty-First Century: What Have We Learned after 50+ Years of Soil Conservation Practices? T133. Pre-Industrial Fluvial Discontinuity T134. Historical Range of Variability in Landscapes T135. Hydrogeomorphic Processes in Hillslopes, Rivers, and Landscapes T136. Soil Geomorphology: Deciphering Landscapes, Surficial Processes, and Quaternary History through Pedology-Based Geomorphic Study: In Honor of Pete Birkeland T137. Developing Chronologies for Tectonic Geomorphic Studies T138. Applications of Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) Dating in Studies of the Mode, Timing, and Rate of Geomorphological Processes T139. The Barrier Island System: Evolution in Response to Changing Sea Levels T141. Ancient Floodplains and Rivers: Unraveling the Mysteries of Colorado's Conglomerates T142. Stratigraphic, Structural, Geomorphic, and Tectonic Evolution of the Lake Mead Region, Southwestern United States, from the Oligocene to the Present T147. Where Does Earthquake Physics Meet Earthquake Geology? T151. Distributed Continental Shear: Styles, Rates, and Variations in the Characteristics of Dextral Deformation along the Walker Lane and Eastern California Shear Zone T155. Cryptic Uplift of the Interior of the U.S. Cordilleran Orogen T156. Controls and Consequences of Continental Rifting: From Heat Flow, Stress, and Strain to Magmatism, Landscape-Basin Evolution, and Development of Natural Resources Field Trips 403: Late Cenozoic evolution of the Colorado Rockies: interplay between uplift, climate, and drainage integration 405: Quaternary geology and geochronology of the uppermost Arkansas valley: glaciers, ice dams, landslides, flood 406: Boulder Creek: a stream ecosystem in an urban landscape 417: Kirk Bryan field trip: Historical range of variability in the Colorado Rockies
International Association of Geomorphologists 2013 meeting. At the IAG meeting in Melbourne, Australia, no proposal was submitted for hosting the 2013 meeting in the U.S. The 2013 meeting will be held in Paris. If the U.S. wants to host the 2017 meeting, a proposal must be developed and presented at the Paris meeting.
International Quaternary Association (INQUA) 2011 Congress – Bern, Switzerland. The next INQUA Congress will be held 20-27 July 2011 in Bern, Switzerland. http://www.inqua2011.ch/
Friends of the Pleistocene – Rocky Mountain Cell, October 15-17th, Henry Mtns, Utah. Contact Arjun Heimsath ([email protected]) or go the website: http://www.public.asu.edu/~mjungers/FOP_HenryMoun tains.html
---- MISCELLANEA ---MRI DATABASE For those interested in integrated global change research, we would like to draw your attention to the database being built by the Mountain Research Initiative (MRI) in Bern, Switzerland. The database is MRI's central networking tool to connect people from research, government, NGOs and the private sector involved in the issue of global change in mountain regions in one way or another. It includes both contact information and details on the participants' areas of expertise. To date the database already comprises close to 3000 entries. Make (or revise) your entry now at: http://mri.scnatweb.ch/content/view/40/44/. MRI’s goals are to advance the understanding of how global change, especially climate change, will impact mountain environments, peoples and economies throughout the world, and to promote the use of that understanding in the pursuit of sustainable management of mountainous regions. MRI is endorsed by IGBP, IHDP, GTOS and the MAB Program. Find out more at our new website: http://mri.scnatweb.ch.
SWGEONET Online Georectified Aster satellite imagery data as geotiff for the Southwestern US and northern Mexico. We have
more than 2300 images (>350Gb) available and more on the way. They have been acquired from 2000 to 2004. Image selection is done through our main swgeonet map server: http://aspen.asu.edu/website/Geoinformatics/viewer.htm.
Just make one or more of the Aster layers visible, make the one you are interested in active, and click on a footprint of interest with the inquire (i) tool and then click through the various options. Here is a tutorial that might help to get you going: http://www.geoinformaticsnetwork.org/swgeonet/Data/T utorials/Tutorial-ASTER_data.htm. I also have a paper and talk from the ESRI user's conference: http://activetectonics.la.asu.edu/GEONatASU/Data/ES RI2004GEONArrowsmith.ppt; http://activetectonics.la.asu.edu/GEONatASU/Data/191 5.pdf; SWGEONET home page: http://www.geoinformaticsnetwork.org/swgeonet/. Please use this and let us know how useful it is. Please be sure to acknowledge the source. J Ramón Arrowsmith [email protected] Assoc Prof., Arizona State University Department of Geological Sciences Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287-1404, U.S.A. (480) 965-3541 OFFICE (480) 965-8102 FAX
DENDROCHRONOLOGY DATABASE The Bibliography of Dendrochronology is an archive of printed documents relevant to tree-ring research worldwide, that you can search for free. It was compiled and is constantly updated by Henri D. Grissino-Mayer. It currently contains over 8200 references dating back to 1737. http://www01.wsl.ch/dendrobiblio
You are welcome to contribute by sending reprints of relevant publications to: Dr. Henri D. Grissino-Mayer Department of Geography University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN 37996 865.974.6029 http://web.utk.edu/~grissino
Database of species used in dendrochronology: http://www01.wsl.ch/species
ELSEVIER JOURNALS
PAGES - (PAst Global changES)
Geomorphology: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/geomorph Quaternary International: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/quaint Quaternary Research: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/yqres Quaternary Science Reviews: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/quascirev
The core mission of PAGES is to facilitate international collaborations and interdisciplinary science, especially between individuals involved in national programs with overlapping interests. The PAGES scope of interest includes the physical climate system, biogeochemical cycles, ecosystem processes, biodiversity, and human dimensions. The emphasis is on high-resolution studies of global change – such as those stored in ice cores, tree rings, speleothems, corals, lakes, marine records, etc. – and the use of these data for making sound estimates of future global change. What is PAGES and how can a GSA/Quaternary Member get involved? http://www.pages.unibe.ch.
Quaternary Geochronology: Elsevier has fairly recently started this new journal. Editor in Chief is Rainer Grün from the Australian National University in Canberra. A Guide for Authors, free sample copy and instructions for submission of articles can be found at: http://www.elsevier.com/quageo Tables of Contents are delivered via email as each new issue publishes. Register your email address with ContentsDirect, Elsevier's free email alerting service, at or online at http://contentsdirect.elsevier.com/
IAG NEWSLETTER IAG Newsletters are available on the IAG Website: http://www.geomorph.org
GEOMORPHORUM The newsletter of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) Geomorphology Specialty Group can be accessed at: http://www.cas.sc.edu/geog/gsgdocs/geomorphorum.html
Send comments and suggestions to: Dan Royall, Chair, AAG-Geomorphology Specialty Group Department of Geography University of North Carolina-Greensboro Greensboro, NC 27402 [email protected]
PAGES even played a key role with NOAA in establishing the WDC-A for Paleoclimatology as the central depository for global paleoclimate data. WDC-A stands for World Data Center for Paleoclimatology, which is a part of the NOAA National Climate Data Center (NCDC). http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/paleo.html
Division Newsletter Editors Many Divisions “publish” their newsletters mainly by posting them on their Division websites. All Division websites can be accessed from: http://www.geosociety.org/sectdiv/divisions.htm. Archaeological Geology – Spring, Fall Heidi Luchsinger [email protected] Coal Geology – No set schedule. Sarah Shearer [email protected] Engineering Geology – Spring, Summer, Fall John Jens [email protected] Geobiology & Geomicrobiology – No set schedule. Contact: Chair, Nora Noffke [email protected] Geoinformatics – No set schedule. Contact: Chair, Hassan Babaie [email protected] Geology & Health – No set schedule. Catherine Skinner [email protected] Geology & Society – No set schedule. Robin McDowell [email protected] Geophysics – No set schedule. Kevin Mickus [email protected] Geoscience Education – Winter, Summer Mark Hafen [email protected] History of Geology – Quarterly. Jane Davidson [email protected] Hydrogeology – Spring/Summer, Fall Andrea Brookfield [email protected] International – No set schedule. Contact: Chair, John Wakabayashi [email protected] Limnogeology – No set schedule. Peter Drzewiecki [email protected] Mineralogy, Petrology, Volcanology, Geochemistry J. Alexander Speer [email protected] Planetary Geology – Summer or Fall Robert C. Anderson [email protected] QG&G – Spring, Fall Dennis Dahms [email protected] Sedimentary Geology – Spring, Fall Ruarri Day-Stirrat [email protected] Structural Geology & Tectonics – Spring, Fall Dave West [email protected]
GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division Newsletter October, 2010
Volume 51, No. 2
Table of Contents 2010 QG&G Division Officers and Panel Members ..................................................................................................... Award Funds – Current Status & Appeal .................................................................................................................... QG&G Division Awards – 2010 ................................................................................................................................... Kirk Bryan Award ............................................................................................................................................... Distinguished Career Award .............................................................................................................................. Farouk El-Baz Award for Desert Research ......................................................................................................... Gladys W. Cole Memorial Research Award ....................................................................................................... Student Research Awards ................................................................................................................................. Robert K. Fahnestock Memorial Award ............................................................................................................ John Montagne Fund ......................................................................................................................................... Upcoming Meetings .................................................................................................................................................... Miscellanea .................................................................................................................................................................. Division Newsletter Editors ..........................................................................................................................................
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Newsletter of the Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division http://rock.geosociety.org/qgg
October 2010
Volume 51, No. 2
Scenes from the QG&G-sponsored Kirk Bryan Fieldtrip at last year’s annual meeting in Portland. Names of participants witheld to protect the guilty; but the choir director in the top photo appears to be the QG&G division Treasurer. QG&G-related attractions awating participants in this year’s annual meeting are inside, beginning on page 4.
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Quaternary Geology & Geomorphology Division Officers and Panel Members – 2009/10 Officers – 6 Members, three of whom serve one-year terms: Chair, First Vice-Chair, and Second Vice-Chair; and three of whom serve two-year terms: Secretary, Treasurer, and Newsletter Editor/Webmaster. Management Board – 8 Members: Division officers and the Chair of the preceding year; also includes the Historian as an ex officio member.
CHAIR: Paul Bierman Geology Department University of Vermont Burlington, VT 05405 [email protected]
1st VICE-CHAIR: P. Kyle House Nevada Bureau of Mines & Geology 1664 N. Virginia St., MS 178 University of Nevada Reno, NV 89557 [email protected] 2nd VICE-CHAIR Sara Rathburn Department of Geosciences Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523-1482 [email protected] SECRETARY: Jon J. Major U.S. Geological Survey 1300 SE Cardinal Court Building 10, Suite 100 Vancouver, WA 98683 [email protected] Treasurer: Scott F. Burns Department of Geology Portland State University PO Box 751 Portland, OR 97207-0751 [email protected]
Newsletter Ed./ Webmaster: Dennis Dahms Department of Geography East Gym #215 University of Northern Iowa Cedar Falls, IA 50614-0406 [email protected] Past Chair: Marith Reheis U.S. Geological Survey, MS 980 Federal Center, Box 25046 Denver, CO 80225 [email protected] Historian: (Appointed by the Chair in consultation with the Management Board) P. Thompson Davis Professor, Geology & Climatology Dept of Natural Sciences Bentley University Waltham, MA 02452-4705 [email protected] PANEL MEMBERS 2008-2010 Panel Faith Fitzpatrick, [email protected] Jennifer Pierce, [email protected] Tom Pierson, [email protected] 2009-2011 Panel Yvonne Martin, [email protected] Dave Wilkins, [email protected] Yehouda Enzel, [email protected]
2010 JTPC Representatives: P. Kyle House Nevada Bureau of Mines & Geology 1664 N. Virginia St., MS 178 University of Nevada Reno, NV 89557 Paul Bierman Geology Department University of Vermont Burlington, VT 05405
GSA Councilors/QG&G Division Liaisons: (Appointed by the GSA President)
Monica Gowan Wesley Hill
QG&G Award Funds Current Status and Appeal One of the many ramifications of the current economic crisis directly impacts your Division. The various Foundation funds that provide monetary awards for the QG&G student and professional awards, just like your own investments, have been severely impacted by the stock market losses and on average are valued well below their worth of two years ago. Because GSA calculates the distribution amount for awards based on the value of these funds two years ago, the amount available for most of these funds in 2010 and beyond cannot sustain past award levels until principals are rebuilt. Thus in 2010 (calculated from balances in Nov. 2008) we will be forced to reduce the amounts of the Kirk Bryan Award (from $5000 to $3000) and the Gladys W. Cole Award (from $9900 to $7500), unless we receive direct pass-through donations to supplement these amounts. We do not intend to reduce the student awards (Howard, Mackin, and the new Morisawa), and will supplement them as necessary from Division funds. You can help alleviate the impact of future reductions by donating to these award funds, particularly the three student awards, the Kirk Bryan, and the Cole: go online to the GSA website, click on “Foundation”, then “Donate”, and finally the fund of your choice. And please stay tuned for more information on pass-through donations and financial updates. The QG&G Management Board
Incoming QG&G Management Board and Panel Members for 2011 The election for 2010-11 QG&G officers closed on July 14, 2010. In that election, 10.1% of the QG&G members eligible to vote cast ballots. On the basis of that election, the 2010-11 QG&G management board will consist of: Kyle House, Chair Sara Rathburn, 1st Vice Chair Jim O’Connor, 2nd Vice Chair Jon Major, Secretary Scott Burns, Treasurer Dennis Dahms, Newsletter Editor/Webmaster Thom Davis, Historian Paul Bierman, Past Chair Continuing 2009-2011 panel members are:
Yvonne Martin, David Wilkins, Yehouda Enzel Newly elected 2010-2012 panel members are: Karen Gran, Tammy Rittenour, Anne Jefferson The board extends its thanks to outgoing panel members Jennifer Pierce, Tom Pierson, and Faith Fitzpatick, and to all who stood as candidates for election.
QG&G DIVISION AWARDS - 2010 The following awardees were selected to receive the QG&G Division annual awards. The awards will be given at our annual awards ceremony on Tuesday, November 2nd, 7-11pm in the Colorado Convention Center, Four Seasons Ballroom 4.
—Kirk Bryan Award— The Kirk Bryan Award for Research Excellence was established in 1951. The award is given for a publication of distinction (within the past 5 years). The 2010 award will be presented to Rolfe Mandel, Kansas Geological Survey, for his paper ‘Buried paleo-indian landscapes in stream valleys of the central plains, USA’: Geomorphology, v. 101, p. 342-361.
—Distinguished Career Award— The Distinguished Career Award, established in 1985, is presented to Quaternary geologists and geomorphologists who have demonstrated excellence in their contributions to science. The 2010 award will be presented to Vic Baker, University of Arizona.
Farouk El-Baz —Award for Desert Research— The Farouk El-Baz Research Award, established in 1999, is given for outstanding work in the field of warm desert research. The 2010 award will be presented to Xiaoping Yang, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Gladys W. Cole Memorial Award The Gladys W. Cole Memorial Research Award is restricted to investigation of the geomorphology of semiarid and arid terrains in the United States and Mexico. It is given each year to a GSA Member or
Fellow between 30 and 65 years of age who has published one or more significant papers in geomorphology. The Fund was established in 1980 by Dr. W. Storrs Cole in memory of his wife. The 2010 award will be presented to Kathleen Nicoll, University of Utah, for ‘Revisiting G.K. Gilbert’s ‘Great Bar at Stockton, Utah’—documenting a site in peril’.
── Student Research Awards ── Our Division offers three student awards: The J. Hoover Mackin Research Award was created in 1974 to support graduate student research in Quaternary geology or geomorphology. The Arthur D. Howard Research Award was established in 1992 to support graduate student research in Quaternary geography or geomorphology. The Marie Morisawa Award was established in 2006 to support a promising female graduate student in geomorphology.
—— J. Hoover Mackin Award —— The 2010 Mackin Award for Ph.D. research wlill be presented to Juan Luis Garcia, University of Maine, for ‘Holocene history of the southeastern outlet glaciers, Hielo Patagónico Sur, in Torres del Paine National Park (51°S), Southern Patagonia, Chile’. Honorable mention: Matthew Jungers, Arizona State University, for ‘Life After Faulting: Posttectonic Evolution of Southeastern Arizona’s Basin and Range’.
— The Marie Morisawa Award — The 2010 Marie Morisawa Award will be given to Britta J.L. Jensen, University of Alberta, for ‘A chronostratigraphic framework for the middle Pleistocene in eastern Beringia’. Honorable Mention: Erica Bigio, University of Arizona, for ‘Reconstruction of the fire and alluvial sedimentation history using tree-ring and alluvial sediment methods’.
— Arthur D. Howard Research Award — The 2010 Howard Award for M.S. research will be given to Ryan W. Wood, San Jose State University, for ‘Transient hillslope response to a knickpoint sweeping up a watershed’. Honorable Mention: Serin Duplantis, Portland State University, for ‘Landslide Inventory Mapping and Dating using LiDAR-based Imaging and Roughness Modeling in Clackamas County, Oregon’.
Robert K. Fahnestock Memorial Award The Fahnestock award honors the memory of the former member of the Research Grants Committee, who died indirectly as a result of service on the committee. The award is given for the best proposal in sediment transport or related aspects of fluvial geomorphology. The 2010 recipient will be Erica Bigio, University of Arizona, for ‘Reconstruction of the fire and alluvial sedimentation history using tree-ring and alluvial sediment methods’.
-- The John Montagne Fund -The Montagne fund was established in 2000 to support one student’s research in Quaternary Geology or Geomorphology. The 2010 recipient will be Kerry Riley, Boise State University.
UPCOMING MEETINGS — Denver 2010 GSA Annual Meeting — At the 2010 annual meeting, the Division will sponsor 2 Pardee sessions, 3 named award lectures, the intrameeting Kirk Bryan Field Trip, 3 pre- and postmeeting field trips, and will co-sponsor 44 topical sessions. Pardee Keynote Symposia P6: Seeing the true shape of Earth’s surface: applications of airborne and terrestrial LiDAR in the Geosciences P7: Impacts of ocean acidification: the other CO2 crisis Topical Sessions T3: The Hydrogeological Effects of Urbanization T17: Geologic Maps, Digital Geologic Maps, and Derivatives from Geologic and Geophysical Maps (Posters) T19: New Approaches to Addressing Earthquake Hazards and Cost-Effective Mitigation Policies in the Mid-Continent T22: Exposing Myths and Misrepresentations of Climate Change and Evolution Science: Strategies and Case Studies for Geoscientists, Educators, Policy Makers, and the Press T23. Reconstructing Interactions between Humans and the Natural Environment during the Holocene T24. Sediments and Settlements
T25. The Geoenvironmental Context of Human Migrations T28. Engineering and Environmental Impacts of Evaporite Karst Processes T29. Landslides, Debris Flow, and Rock Fall: Reaching New Peaks in Research and Monitoring T30. Motion of Landslides, Debris Flows, and Avalanches T31. Secondary Processes of Landslides T32. Seeing the True Shape of Earth's Surface: Applications of Airborne and Terrestrial LiDAR in the Geosciences T33. Debris Flows: From Hazard Mitigation to Landscape Evolution T52. Karst Environments: Problems, Management, Human Impact, and Environmental Sustainability (Posters) T55. Environmental Geology of Oil Shale and Tar Sands T60. Volcanic and Landscape Evolution of the Jemez Mountains Volcanic Field T69. Innovative Techniques and Applications for Detrital Thermo- and Geochronologic Data T82. Geology in the National Forests and Grasslands — Stewardship, Education, and Research T86. Transformative Science in the Himalaya and Tibet: Insight from Geophysical, Geochemical, and Geologic Studies T96. Glacier National Park Centennial: 100 Years of Science and Scenery T97. Temporal Trends in Anthropogenic Contaminants from Lacustrine, Coastal, and Marine Sediment Cores: The Good, the Bad, and the Future T98. African Lakes and Paleolakes: Processes, Paleoenvironments, and Paleoclimate T105. Impact Cratering: From the Lab to the Field; from the Earth to the Planets T107. Field Geology on Other Planets: An Emerging Science T110. Mountain Formation and Landscape Evolution in the Solar System: Implications for the Origin of Life T118. Filling the Hole: Sedimentary Geology and Paleontology of Caves and Karst T119. Holocene Paleoclimate Records from Western North America: Exploring Pacific Influences T125. Terrestrial Laser Scanning: Applications in Geology and Geomorphology T126. Exploring Spatial and Temporal Variability of Latest Pleistocene and Holocene Alpine Glacier Fluctuations T127. Timing of Pleistocene glaciation in the North American Cordillera T129. OIS 4 and 3 Were Bigger Than You Think — Geomorphic Evidence from Glacial, Fluvial, Lacustrine, and Eolian Records
T130. Dunes, Loess, and Dust: Paleo- and Modern Perspectives on Activation, Stratigraphy, and Processes T131. Cenozoic Landscape Evolution of the Rocky Mountain–Colorado Plateau Region: The Colorado River System from the Rockies through Grand Canyon to the Gulf of California T132. Fluvial Sediment Movement into the Twenty-First Century: What Have We Learned after 50+ Years of Soil Conservation Practices? T133. Pre-Industrial Fluvial Discontinuity T134. Historical Range of Variability in Landscapes T135. Hydrogeomorphic Processes in Hillslopes, Rivers, and Landscapes T136. Soil Geomorphology: Deciphering Landscapes, Surficial Processes, and Quaternary History through Pedology-Based Geomorphic Study: In Honor of Pete Birkeland T137. Developing Chronologies for Tectonic Geomorphic Studies T138. Applications of Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) Dating in Studies of the Mode, Timing, and Rate of Geomorphological Processes T139. The Barrier Island System: Evolution in Response to Changing Sea Levels T141. Ancient Floodplains and Rivers: Unraveling the Mysteries of Colorado's Conglomerates T142. Stratigraphic, Structural, Geomorphic, and Tectonic Evolution of the Lake Mead Region, Southwestern United States, from the Oligocene to the Present T147. Where Does Earthquake Physics Meet Earthquake Geology? T151. Distributed Continental Shear: Styles, Rates, and Variations in the Characteristics of Dextral Deformation along the Walker Lane and Eastern California Shear Zone T155. Cryptic Uplift of the Interior of the U.S. Cordilleran Orogen T156. Controls and Consequences of Continental Rifting: From Heat Flow, Stress, and Strain to Magmatism, Landscape-Basin Evolution, and Development of Natural Resources Field Trips 403: Late Cenozoic evolution of the Colorado Rockies: interplay between uplift, climate, and drainage integration 405: Quaternary geology and geochronology of the uppermost Arkansas valley: glaciers, ice dams, landslides, flood 406: Boulder Creek: a stream ecosystem in an urban landscape 417: Kirk Bryan field trip: Historical range of variability in the Colorado Rockies
International Association of Geomorphologists 2013 meeting. At the IAG meeting in Melbourne, Australia, no proposal was submitted for hosting the 2013 meeting in the U.S. The 2013 meeting will be held in Paris. If the U.S. wants to host the 2017 meeting, a proposal must be developed and presented at the Paris meeting.
International Quaternary Association (INQUA) 2011 Congress – Bern, Switzerland. The next INQUA Congress will be held 20-27 July 2011 in Bern, Switzerland. http://www.inqua2011.ch/
Friends of the Pleistocene – Rocky Mountain Cell, October 15-17th, Henry Mtns, Utah. Contact Arjun Heimsath ([email protected]) or go the website: http://www.public.asu.edu/~mjungers/FOP_HenryMoun tains.html
---- MISCELLANEA ---MRI DATABASE For those interested in integrated global change research, we would like to draw your attention to the database being built by the Mountain Research Initiative (MRI) in Bern, Switzerland. The database is MRI's central networking tool to connect people from research, government, NGOs and the private sector involved in the issue of global change in mountain regions in one way or another. It includes both contact information and details on the participants' areas of expertise. To date the database already comprises close to 3000 entries. Make (or revise) your entry now at: http://mri.scnatweb.ch/content/view/40/44/. MRI’s goals are to advance the understanding of how global change, especially climate change, will impact mountain environments, peoples and economies throughout the world, and to promote the use of that understanding in the pursuit of sustainable management of mountainous regions. MRI is endorsed by IGBP, IHDP, GTOS and the MAB Program. Find out more at our new website: http://mri.scnatweb.ch.
SWGEONET Online Georectified Aster satellite imagery data as geotiff for the Southwestern US and northern Mexico. We have
more than 2300 images (>350Gb) available and more on the way. They have been acquired from 2000 to 2004. Image selection is done through our main swgeonet map server: http://aspen.asu.edu/website/Geoinformatics/viewer.htm.
Just make one or more of the Aster layers visible, make the one you are interested in active, and click on a footprint of interest with the inquire (i) tool and then click through the various options. Here is a tutorial that might help to get you going: http://www.geoinformaticsnetwork.org/swgeonet/Data/T utorials/Tutorial-ASTER_data.htm. I also have a paper and talk from the ESRI user's conference: http://activetectonics.la.asu.edu/GEONatASU/Data/ES RI2004GEONArrowsmith.ppt; http://activetectonics.la.asu.edu/GEONatASU/Data/191 5.pdf; SWGEONET home page: http://www.geoinformaticsnetwork.org/swgeonet/. Please use this and let us know how useful it is. Please be sure to acknowledge the source. J Ramón Arrowsmith [email protected] Assoc Prof., Arizona State University Department of Geological Sciences Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287-1404, U.S.A. (480) 965-3541 OFFICE (480) 965-8102 FAX
DENDROCHRONOLOGY DATABASE The Bibliography of Dendrochronology is an archive of printed documents relevant to tree-ring research worldwide, that you can search for free. It was compiled and is constantly updated by Henri D. Grissino-Mayer. It currently contains over 8200 references dating back to 1737. http://www01.wsl.ch/dendrobiblio
You are welcome to contribute by sending reprints of relevant publications to: Dr. Henri D. Grissino-Mayer Department of Geography University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN 37996 865.974.6029 http://web.utk.edu/~grissino
Database of species used in dendrochronology: http://www01.wsl.ch/species
ELSEVIER JOURNALS
PAGES - (PAst Global changES)
Geomorphology: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/geomorph Quaternary International: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/quaint Quaternary Research: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/yqres Quaternary Science Reviews: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/quascirev
The core mission of PAGES is to facilitate international collaborations and interdisciplinary science, especially between individuals involved in national programs with overlapping interests. The PAGES scope of interest includes the physical climate system, biogeochemical cycles, ecosystem processes, biodiversity, and human dimensions. The emphasis is on high-resolution studies of global change – such as those stored in ice cores, tree rings, speleothems, corals, lakes, marine records, etc. – and the use of these data for making sound estimates of future global change. What is PAGES and how can a GSA/Quaternary Member get involved? http://www.pages.unibe.ch.
Quaternary Geochronology: Elsevier has fairly recently started this new journal. Editor in Chief is Rainer Grün from the Australian National University in Canberra. A Guide for Authors, free sample copy and instructions for submission of articles can be found at: http://www.elsevier.com/quageo Tables of Contents are delivered via email as each new issue publishes. Register your email address with ContentsDirect, Elsevier's free email alerting service, at or online at http://contentsdirect.elsevier.com/
IAG NEWSLETTER IAG Newsletters are available on the IAG Website: http://www.geomorph.org
GEOMORPHORUM The newsletter of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) Geomorphology Specialty Group can be accessed at: http://www.cas.sc.edu/geog/gsgdocs/geomorphorum.html
Send comments and suggestions to: Dan Royall, Chair, AAG-Geomorphology Specialty Group Department of Geography University of North Carolina-Greensboro Greensboro, NC 27402 [email protected]
PAGES even played a key role with NOAA in establishing the WDC-A for Paleoclimatology as the central depository for global paleoclimate data. WDC-A stands for World Data Center for Paleoclimatology, which is a part of the NOAA National Climate Data Center (NCDC). http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/paleo.html
Division Newsletter Editors Many Divisions “publish” their newsletters mainly by posting them on their Division websites. All Division websites can be accessed from: http://www.geosociety.org/sectdiv/divisions.htm. Archaeological Geology – Spring, Fall Heidi Luchsinger [email protected] Coal Geology – No set schedule. Sarah Shearer [email protected] Engineering Geology – Spring, Summer, Fall John Jens [email protected] Geobiology & Geomicrobiology – No set schedule. Contact: Chair, Nora Noffke [email protected] Geoinformatics – No set schedule. Contact: Chair, Hassan Babaie [email protected] Geology & Health – No set schedule. Catherine Skinner [email protected] Geology & Society – No set schedule. Robin McDowell [email protected] Geophysics – No set schedule. Kevin Mickus [email protected] Geoscience Education – Winter, Summer Mark Hafen [email protected] History of Geology – Quarterly. Jane Davidson [email protected] Hydrogeology – Spring/Summer, Fall Andrea Brookfield [email protected] International – No set schedule. Contact: Chair, John Wakabayashi [email protected] Limnogeology – No set schedule. Peter Drzewiecki [email protected] Mineralogy, Petrology, Volcanology, Geochemistry J. Alexander Speer [email protected] Planetary Geology – Summer or Fall Robert C. Anderson [email protected] QG&G – Spring, Fall Dennis Dahms [email protected] Sedimentary Geology – Spring, Fall Ruarri Day-Stirrat [email protected] Structural Geology & Tectonics – Spring, Fall Dave West [email protected]
GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division Newsletter October, 2010
Volume 51, No. 2
Table of Contents 2010 QG&G Division Officers and Panel Members ..................................................................................................... Award Funds – Current Status & Appeal .................................................................................................................... QG&G Division Awards – 2010 ................................................................................................................................... Kirk Bryan Award ............................................................................................................................................... Distinguished Career Award .............................................................................................................................. Farouk El-Baz Award for Desert Research ......................................................................................................... Gladys W. Cole Memorial Research Award ....................................................................................................... Student Research Awards ................................................................................................................................. Robert K. Fahnestock Memorial Award ............................................................................................................ John Montagne Fund ......................................................................................................................................... Upcoming Meetings .................................................................................................................................................... Miscellanea .................................................................................................................................................................. Division Newsletter Editors ..........................................................................................................................................
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