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2008 Joint Annual Meeting (5-9 Oct. 2008)

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Thursday, 9 October 2008

7:00 AM-9:00 AM


ASA Board of Directors Meeting
(Events: Committee Meetings)

7:15 AM-1:15 PM


786 Soils and Geomorphology Tour of the Texas Gulf Coastal Plain and Texas Shoreline with Special Emphasis on Hydrology and Coastal Erosion
(S05 Pedology)

7:30 AM-1:15 PM


333 CANCELED: Soils and Geomorphology of the Texas Gulf Coastal Plain and Texas Shoreline with Special Emphasis on Hydrology, and Coastal Erosion

7:30 AM-4:00 PM


American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) Executive Committee Meeting

7:40 AM-11:40 AM


Oral Session
782 Genetics and Physiology
(C05 Turfgrass Science)
Presiding: Mohammad Pessarakli

8:00 AM-9:00 AM


CSSA Board of Directors Orientation
(Events: Committee Meetings)

8:00 AM-10:00 AM


Oral Session
10 Pardee Keynote Symposia: Human Influences on the Stratigraphic Record
Presiding: Amy Brock-Hon

8:00 AM-12:00 PM


Oral Session
80 J2. Biofuels Production: Environmental Challenges for Soil and Water
(GSA Hydrogeology Division; S06 Soil & Water Management & Conservation; S03 Soil Biology & Biochemistry; S11 Soils & Environmental Quality)
Presiding: William W. Simpkins , Mark Tomer and Mahdi Al-Kaisi

Oral Session
81 J8. Energy from Renewables Using Soil Microbes and Microbial Processes
(GSA Geobiology and Geomicrobiology Division; S03 Soil Biology & Biochemistry; S10 Wetland Soils; USDA-NRI Soil Processes Program)
Presiding: Mary Ann Bruns and Shiping Deng

Oral Session
82 J18. Soil Physics and Vadose Zone Hydrology: Our Future Contributions
(GSA Hydrogeology Division; S01 Soil Physics; S05 Pedology)
Presiding: Scott Tyler and Jan Hendrickx

Oral Session
330 Hydrogeology III - Uranium, Metals, and Other Contaminants in Groundwater
Presiding: Raymond H. Johnson , L. Rick Arnold and Tanya J. Gallegos

Oral Session
331 Mineralogy/Crystallography; Petrology, Experimental; Igneous; Metamorphic
Presiding: Aaron S. Yoshinobu and William Evans

Oral Session
336 T19. Loess and Loess Soils
(GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division; Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies)
Presiding: Randall Schaetzl and Mark Sweeney

Oral Session
337 T28. Permian and Triassic Terrestrial Biotic Responses to Global Perturbations
(GSA Sedimentary Geology Division; The Paleontological Society; Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM); Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies)
Presiding: Robert A. Gastaldo , Isabel P. Montanez , Neil Tabor and William A. DiMichele

Oral Session
338 T29. Recent Advances in Deepwater Sedimentology: Science Driven by the Search for Natural Resources
(Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies)
Presiding: Stephen M. Hubbard and David R. Pyles

Oral Session
339 T43. Field and Quantitative Paleontology, Micropaleontology, and Taxonomy: A Memorial to Roger L. Kaesler
(Paleontological Society; Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM); Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies)
Presiding: Julie B. Retrum and Stephen T. Hasiotis

Oral Session
340 T54. Integrative Systematic Paleontology for a New Century: Advancing Evolutionary, Phylogenetic, Biogeographic, and Ecologic Theory with Specimen-Based Studies
(Paleontological Society)
Presiding: Alycia L. Stigall and Jonathan Hendricks

Oral Session
341 T57. Evolution of the Lithosphere and Upper Mantle in the Western U.S.
(GSA Geophysics Division)
Presiding: Alan Levander , Cin-Ty Lee , Adrian Lenardic and Fenglin Niu

Oral Session
342 T62. Recent Advances in the Study of the Laramide Orogeny and Related Processes in Mexico and the Southern United States
(GSA Structural Geology and Tectonics Division; GSA Geophysics Division)
Presiding: Mariano Cerca , Martin Valencia and Gabriel Chávez-Cabello

Oral Session
343 T81. Continental and Marine Fold and Thrust Belts II
(GSA Structural Geology and Tectonics Division; IUGS Task Group on Structural Geology and Tectonics; Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies)
Presiding: Luke A. Jensen , Hermann Lebit , Terry Pavlis and Rob Butler

Oral Session
344 T84. Exhumation of Continental Ultrahigh-Pressure Terranes
(GSA Structural Geology and Tectonics Division; UNESCO International Lithosphere Program Task Force IV: Ultra-Deep Continental Crust Subduction; Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies)
Presiding: Jane A. Gilotti and William C. McClelland

Oral Session
345 T108. Living on a Dusty Moon
(GSA Planetary Geology Division; GSA Geology and Health Division)
Presiding: Sarah K. Noble , Doug Rickman and Doug Stoeser

Oral Session
346 T119. The Science of Oil Shale
(Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies)
Presiding: Alicia Sánchez and John Kaszuba

Oral Session
347 T124. Roles of Speciation and Molecular Structure in Soil Processes
(Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies)
Presiding: Owen Duckworth and Alan Stone

Oral Session
348 T172. Outdoor Classrooms for Water Resources Education
(Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies)
Presiding: Susan H. Conrad , Kirsten Menking and John A. Conrad

8:00 AM-4:30 PM


332 CANCELED: Environments of Deposition of Texas Lignites: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly

8:00 AM-5:00 PM


GeoScienceWorld (GSW) Board of Directors Meeting

8:00 AM-5:30 PM


334 CANCELED: The Sierra Madera Astrobleme, Pecos County, Texas

8:05 AM-11:25 AM


Oral Session
780 Genetic Improvement of Soybean, Common Bean, and Legumes
(C01 Crop Breeding & Genetics)
Presiding: Joseph Burton

8:25 AM-10:40 AM


Oral Session
788 Soil Dynamics in Forest Plantations
(S07 Forest, Range & Wildland Soils)
Presiding: Evelyne Thiffault

8:25 AM-11:00 AM


Oral Session
784 General Soil Chemistry Session
(S02 Soil Chemistry)
Presiding: Mark Chappell

8:25 AM-11:15 AM


Oral Session
785 Nitrogen Release from Soil and Soil Amendments
(S04 Soil Fertility & Plant Nutrition; S08 Nutrient Management & Soil & Plant Analysis )
Presiding: Merle Vigil

Oral Session
789 Coastal Wetlands, Treatment Wetlands, and Wetland Methods (includes Graduate Student Competition)
(S10 Wetland Soils)
Presiding: James Jawitz

8:25 AM-11:30 AM


Oral Session
781 Genetic and Production Environment Effects on Physiology
(C02 Crop Physiology and Metabolism)
Presiding: Felix Fritschi

8:55 AM-10:30 AM


Oral Session
779 Environmental Biology of Field Crops
(A03 Agroclimatology & Agronomic Modeling)
Presiding: James Kiniry

8:55 AM-11:30 AM


Oral Session
787 Soil Management Effects on Water Quality (includes Graduate Student Competition)
(S06 Soil & Water Management & Conservation)
Presiding: Jalal Jabro

9:00 AM-11:00 AM


CSSA Board of Directors Meeting
(Events: Committee Meetings)

9:00 AM-5:00 PM


Short Course 531: Fundamentals of Seismic Structural Analysis and Hydrocarbon Entrapment Analysis for Graduate Students Day 1 (cosponsored by ExxonMobile, Conoco Phillips and GSA Structural and Tectonics Division)

Short Course 532: Structural and Stratigraphic Concepts Applied to Basin Exploration Day 1 (cosponsored by ExxonMobil Exploration Corp.)

9:25 AM-11:45 AM


Oral Session
783 Coupling Water and Chemical Transport and Fate in the Soil Root, Vadose, and Groundwater Zones at Different Scales
(S01 Soil Physics)
Presiding: Jirka Simunek

11:00 AM-1:00 PM


SSSA Board of Directors Meeting
(Events: Committee Meetings)

11:45 AM-1:00 PM


American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) Executive Committee Lunch

1:00 PM-5:00 PM


Middle-Late Pennsylvanian Working Group (Day 1 of 2)
(2008am_ode)

3:00 PM-7:00 PM


349 Re-visiting Central Texas Late Cambrian Wilberns Stromatolites and Thrombolites