Eastern Section of the Society for Sedimentary Geology

Call for Proposals

2011 NE and SE GSA Meetings
We need you to propose ES-SEPM-sponsored events (technical sessions, field trips, workshops) for both 2011 NE and SE GSA Meetings.  These proposals are due very soon – in June! – but are very simple to do. Please contact conference chairs listed below or any of the ES-SEPM officers if you have any questions or need any assistance with proposing an event.  In your event proposal, please remember to state “Sponsored by Eastern Section of the Society for Sedimentary Geology (ES-SEPM)”. Thank you!

Northeastern/North-Central Sections GSA Joint Meeting
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 20-22 March 2011
Chairs: NC - Daniel K. Holm (dholm@kent.edu), and NE - Patrick Burkhart (patrick.burkhart@sru.edu)

Southeastern Section GSA Meeting
Wilmington, North Carolina, 23-25 March 2011
Chairs: Richard Laws (laws@uncw.edu), and Bill Harris (harrisw@uncw.edu)

Accepting Proposals at:  http://www.uncw.edu/earsci/2011SEGSA.htm

Best Student Paper Awards:

The winner of the 2010 Eastern Section SEPM Best Paper competition was chosen from all student presentations at ES-SEPM co-sponsored sessions and will have the opportunity to present at the 2011 annual AAPG Conference in Houston, through a travel grant funded by SEPM. The winner is:

Kristin R. Wilson (graduate student in the Ecology and Environmental Sciences Program, University of Maine) for her talk "Are Maine's Salt Marshes Drowning? Salt Pools as Dynamic Drivers of Surficial Change for Six Maine Salt Marshes" co-authored by Joseph T. Kelley, Daniel F. Belknap, Gordon S. Hamilton, and Cynthia S. Loftin.

Four additional students were acknowledged for their outstanding presentations:

Donald H. Goldstein (graduate student in Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee) for his talk "Mobile Predators and Mobile Prey: Compound Traces Indicate Active Hunting Behavior" co-authored by Michael L. McKinney and Anthony J. Martin.

Christopher J. Hein (graduate student in the Department of Earth Sciences, Boston University) for his talk "The Role of Sea Level and Bay Infilling in the Closing of an Ancient Egyptian Harbor" co-authored by Duncan M. FitzGerald, Kathryn A. Bard, Rodolfo Fattovich, and Glenn Milne.

Katie N. Hoskinson (undergraduate student in the Department of Geology, St. Lawrence University) for her poster "Carbonate-Evaporite Facies in the "B" Interval of the Upper Ordovician Red River Formation, Williston Basin, North Dakota" co-authored by Kyle Marvinney and Antun Husinec.

Veronica A. Woodlief (undergraduate student in the Department of Geography and Earth Science, Shippensburg University) for her poster "Investigating the Usefulness of the USGS Coastal Vulnerability Index: Realized and Potential Impacts of Storm Surge Events on Three Different Atlantic and Caribbean Coastlines: Delmarva Peninsula, Virginia; Florida Keys, Florida; and Curacao, Netherlands Antilles" co-authored by Sean R. Cornell.

Get Membership for Life!
Are you tired of constant reminders about paying your $8 ES-SEPM dues each year? 
For a contribution of $100 or more you can now become a life-long member of ES-SEPM!!!
For more information, please download the Membership Form or see the one included in the Newsletter.

 

Life-Long Members:	Honorary Life-Long Members:
Gail Ashley	Gerald M. Friedman
Ilya Buynevich	Gerard V. Middleton
Nicholas K. Coch	John B. Southard
Cynthia Coron	H. Allen Curran
Stan Dunagan
Duncan M. FitzGerald
Deborah Freile
Bosiljka Glumac
Susan D. Halsey
John C. Kraft
Heather Macdonald
F. Daniel Russell Jr.
Randolph P. Steinen
Charles W. Welby