20 Geology and Public Policy in the West

Wednesday, 13 May 2009
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Presentations

• 1:00 PM
  THE HYDROGEOLOGY OF MOAB-SPANISH VALLEY, SOUTHEASTERN UTAH, WITH EMPHASIS ON MAPS FOR WATER-RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND LAND-USE PLANNING
  Mike Lowe, Salt Lake City, UT and Janae Wallace, Salt Lake City, UT and Stefan Kirby, Salt Lake City, UT and Charles Bishop, Utah Division of Radiation Control, Salt Lake City, UT
  157283 (Theme Sessions)
• 1:20 PM
  WATER RESOURCE CHALLENGES ASSOCIATED WITH OIL SHALE DEVELOPMENT
  D. Craig Cooper, Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID and Thomas R. Wood, Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID
  157927 (Theme Sessions)
• 1:40 PM
  ASBESTOS, MINERALOGY, TOXICOLOGY, AND TERMINOLOGY: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE PRESENT AND FUTURE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN HEALTH, RESPIRABLE MINERALS, AND REGULATIONS
  Don J. Halterman, Salt Lake Technical Center, Sandy, UT
  158030 (Theme Sessions)
• 2:00 PM
  USE OF A LOW-COST, PARTIALLY-IMMERSIVE, STEREOGRAPHIC PROJECTION, 'GEOWALL' SYSTEM FOR TEACHING GEOSCIENCES TO MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES IN LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS: AN EXAMPLE FROM RADFORD UNIVERSITY, VIRGINIA, U.S.A
  Parvinder Sethi, Radford Univ, Radford, VA
  157863 (Theme Sessions)
• 2:20 PM
  COLLABORATIVE APPROACHES THAT BRIDGE SCIENCE AND PUBLIC POLICY: A ROLE FOR GEOSCIENTISTS
  Christine Turner, U. S. Geol Survey, Denver, CO and Richard Zirbes, N/A and Maggie McCaffrey, U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution, Tucson, AZ
  158008 (Theme Sessions)
• 2:40 PM
  WORKING THROUGH GSA TO IMPACT PUBLIC POLICY; THE MANY WONDERFUL (AB)USES OF GSA POSITION STATEMENTS
  Richard Berg, GSA Geology and Society Division, Champaign, IL and D. Craig Cooper, Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID and James F. Davis, Former California State Geol (retired) & Pres. COSMOS, Carmichael, CA
  157922 (Theme Sessions)