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Activity

2024

• KEYNOTE | OPEN-ENDED VERSUS BOUNDED EVOLUTION: MINERAL EVOLUTION AS A CASE STUDY
  T238 Advances in Mineral Sciences from Atomistic to Macro Perspectives I: Recognition of Dr. Nancy L. Ross, 2024 Roebling Medalist of the Mineralogical Society of America
  Wednesday, 25 September 2024

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  206B
• THE ROLE OF INFORMATICS IN THE NEXT DECADE OF BIG SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES
  T156 Sustainable, Equitable and Usable Earth Science Cyberinfrastructure
  Tuesday, 24 September 2024

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  209B
• THE CO-EVOLUTION OF COPPER MINERALS AND COPPER PROTEINS THRU GEOLOGIC TIME
  T137 Early Career Investigators in Mineralogy and Crystallography
  Monday, 23 September 2024

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  207A
• THE CO-EVOLUTION OF COPPER MINERALS AND COPPER PROTEINS THROUGH GEOLOGIC TIME
  30 Future Directions in Mineralogy and Petrology: A Session for Undergraduate and Graduate Researchers (Posters)
  Tuesday, 23 April 2024

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Grand Ballroom, Oasis CC

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2023

• AN EVOLUTIONARY SYSTEM OF MINERALOGY: AN INFORMATICS APPROACH TO MINERAL CLASSIFICATION
  T141 Deep-Time Empowered Sustainability, Energy Transition, and Carbon Solutions
  Tuesday, 17 October 2023

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  320
• MINERAL EVOLUTION: A CASE STUDY OF A NEW NATURAL LAW
  T89 Mineral Informatics and the Evolution of Earth, Planets, and Life: In Honor of MSA Awardee, Shaunna M. Morrison
  Monday, 16 October 2023

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  315 / 316

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2022

• ON THE PARAGENETIC MODES OF MINERALS: A MINERAL INFORMATICS APPROACH
  T162 Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry: New Approaches to Harnessing the Multidimensionality of Complex Systems
  Tuesday, 11 October 2022

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  505
• SILICON AND OXYGEN IN EARTH’S CORE: APPLICATIONS OF MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS TO METAL-SILICATE EQUILIBRIA AND CORE FORMATION
  T201 Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry: New Approaches to Harnessing the Multidimensionality of Complex Systems (Posters)
  Tuesday, 11 October 2022

  2:00 PM - 6:00 PM

  Exhibit Hall F
• EVOLUTION OF THE IGNEOUS MINERALS: A GEOINFORMATICS APPROACH
  T82 Source to Surface Magma Thermodynamics and Transport: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Documenting the How, Where, and When of Magma Generation and Evolution during Ascent, Storage, and Eruption I
  Monday, 10 October 2022

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  502

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2021

• ON THE PARAGENETIC MODES OF MINERALS: A MINERAL EVOLUTION PERSPECTIVE
  T8 Evolution of Earth’s Surface: Honoring Xiao-Ming Liu, Recipient of the 2021 Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Petrology, and Volcanology Division’s Early Geological Career Award
  Sunday, 10 October 2021

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Portland Ballroom 252 (Hybrid Room)

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2020

• AN EVOLUTIONARY SYSTEM OF MINERALOGY: NETWORK ANALYSIS OF PRE-TERRESTRIAL MINERALS
  T140 Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry: New Approaches to Harnessing the Multidimensionality of Complex Systems II
  Wednesday, 28 October 2020

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Meeting Rooms
• GARNET: A COMPREHENSIVE, STANDARDIZED, GEOCHEMICAL DATABASE INCORPORATING LOCATIONS AND PARAGENESIS
  43 Appalachian Petrology: A Session to Honor the Career of Dr. Robert J. Tracy
  Saturday, 21 March 2020

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Lake Fairfax

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2019

• MINERAL EVOLUTION DATABASE: DATA-DRIVEN AGE ASSIGNMENT, HOW DOES A MINERAL GET AN AGE?
  234 D14. Recent Advances in Mineralogy/Crystallography
  Wednesday, 25 September 2019

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 125AB, North Building
• TWO CENTURIES OF MINERAL CLASSIFICATION: IS THERE MORE THAN ONE VALID SYSTEM?
  T99 Mineralogical Society of America (MSA) at 100: Reflections, Refractions, Diffractions, Intrusions, Subductions, Reactions, etc. from MSA Past Presidents I
  Monday, 23 September 2019

  8:50 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 131ABC, North Building

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2018

• NATURAL KIND CLUSTERING OF PLANETARY MATERIALS: A NEW DATA-DRIVEN APPROACH TO MINERAL CLASSIFICATION
  T10 Mineral Evolution and Ecology: Potential Directions for the Next 100 Years with the Mineralogical Society of America
  Sunday, 4 November 2018

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 233
• ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION OF MANGANESE MINERALS: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE REDOX HISTORY OF EARTH AND LIFE
  T10 Mineral Evolution and Ecology: Potential Directions for the Next 100 Years with the Mineralogical Society of America
  Sunday, 4 November 2018

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 233
• ESTIMATING EARTH’S UNDISCOVERED, MINERALOGICAL DIVERSITY USING A BAYESIAN APPROACH
  35 D14. Mineralogy/Crystallography (Posters)
  Sunday, 4 November 2018

  9:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Halls J-K
• FUTURE AND CURRENT APPROACHES FOR MODELING THE DISTRIBUTION OF MINERALS ON EARTH AND OTHER PLANETS
  T10 Mineral Evolution and Ecology: Potential Directions for the Next 100 Years with the Mineralogical Society of America
  Sunday, 4 November 2018

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 233

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2017

• THE AMORPHOUS COMPOSITION OF THREE MUDSTONE SAMPLES FROM GALE CRATER: IMPLICATIONS FOR WEATHERING AND DIAGENETIC PROCESSES ON MARS
  T342 Basalt Weathering on Earth and Mars
  Wednesday, 25 October 2017

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Tahoma 1

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2016

• MSA ROEBLING MEDAL LECTURE: THE CO-EVOLUTION OF EARTH AND LIFE; INSIGHTS FROM ‘BIG DATA’ MINERALOGY
  231 Mineralogical Society of America (MSA) Awards Lectures, Presidential Address, and Annual Business Meeting
  Tuesday, 27 September 2016

  3:00 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 207
• MINERAL ECOLOGY: SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS AND SOCIOGRAMS OF MINERAL CONNECTIONS, DISTRIBUTIONS, AND SEGMENTATION
  T255 Mineralogical Evidence for the Co-Evolution of the Geosphere and Biosphere (Posters): In Honor of Robert M. Hazen, 2016 Roebling Medalist
  Tuesday, 27 September 2016

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall E/F
• SOCIAL NETWORK OF COPPER MINERALS: A MINERAL ECOLOGY STUDY
  T191 Mineralogical Evidence for the Co-Evolution of the Geosphere and Biosphere: In Honor of Robert M. Hazen, 2016 Roebling Medalist
  Tuesday, 27 September 2016

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 207
• PREDICTION OF EARTH'S MISSING MINERALS AND THE RELATIVE ABUNDANCES FOR THE MINERAL SPECIES ON EARTH; A STATISTICAL MEASURE TO CHARACTERIZE EARTH-LIKE PLANETS
  T191 Mineralogical Evidence for the Co-Evolution of the Geosphere and Biosphere: In Honor of Robert M. Hazen, 2016 Roebling Medalist
  Tuesday, 27 September 2016

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 207
• QUANTIFYING AND VISUALIZING EARTH’S MINERAL CHEMISTRY THROUGH GEOLOGIC TIME
  T191 Mineralogical Evidence for the Co-Evolution of the Geosphere and Biosphere: In Honor of Robert M. Hazen, 2016 Roebling Medalist
  Tuesday, 27 September 2016

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 207
• COUNTING BORON MINERALS IN EARTH'S CRUST: CAN CONTRADICTORY EVIDENCE BE RECONCILED?
  T191 Mineralogical Evidence for the Co-Evolution of the Geosphere and Biosphere: In Honor of Robert M. Hazen, 2016 Roebling Medalist
  Tuesday, 27 September 2016

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 207
• BUILDING THE MINERAL EVOLUTION DATABASE: IMPLICATIONS FOR FUTURE BIG DATA ANALYSIS
  T255 Mineralogical Evidence for the Co-Evolution of the Geosphere and Biosphere (Posters): In Honor of Robert M. Hazen, 2016 Roebling Medalist
  Tuesday, 27 September 2016

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall E/F
• SHOWING CO-RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN ELEMENTS AND MINERALS IN A THREE-DIMENSIONAL MATRIX
  T255 Mineralogical Evidence for the Co-Evolution of the Geosphere and Biosphere (Posters): In Honor of Robert M. Hazen, 2016 Roebling Medalist
  Tuesday, 27 September 2016

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall E/F

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2015

• TRACING EARTH’S O2 EVOLUTION USING ZN/FE SYSTEMATICS IN MARINE CARBONATES
  T280 Geobiology of Critical Transitions: Integrating Fossils, Proxies, and Models II
  Wednesday, 4 November 2015

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 325/326
• MINERAL ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION OF MANGANESE: USING REDOX SENSITIVE MINERALS TO PROBE EARTH’S HISTORY
  T95 Mineralogy Writ Small: A Tribute to the Distinguished Career of David R. Veblen
  Monday, 2 November 2015

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 317

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2014

• GEOCHEMICAL SOCIETY INGERSON LECTURE: CHANCE AND NECESSITY IN THE MINERAL EVOLUTION OF TERRESTRIAL PLANETS
  T166 Theory and Experiment in Petrology and Geochemistry: A Session in Honor of Bernard J. Wood, 2014 Roebling Medalist
  Monday, 20 October 2014

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  205/206

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2013

• HG CONCENTRATIONS AND MASS INDEPENDENT FRACTIONATION IN MID-PROTEROZOIC MARINE SHALES
  269 Precambrian Geology
  Tuesday, 29 October 2013

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  Mile High Ballroom 4EF

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2012

• CARBON MINERALOGY
  211 Understanding Earth through Carbon
  Wednesday, 7 November 2012

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Ballroom B
• THE DEEP CARBON OBSERVATORY: TRANSFORMATIONAL SCIENTIFIC OPPORTUNITIES
  211 Understanding Earth through Carbon
  Wednesday, 7 November 2012

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Ballroom B
• A MICROBIAL ECOSYSTEM IN AN ANCIENT SABKHA OF THE 3.49 GA PILBARA, WESTERN AUSTRALIA, AND COMPARISON WITH MESOARCHEAN, NEOPROTEROZOIC AND PHANEROZOIC EXAMPLES
  190 SPECIAL SESSION: Recent Advances in Carbonate Sedimentology and Stratigraphy: In Memory of Gerald M. Friedman
  Tuesday, 6 November 2012

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  203B
• RECENT ADVANCES IN URANIUM MINERAL EVOLUTION
  T82 Investigating the Future of Uranium in the Geosciences: An Examination of Environmental Studies and Applications
  Monday, 5 November 2012

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  208B
• PRESERVATION AND PIGMENTATION OF THE MIOCENE GASTROPOD ECPHORA
  T102 Topics in Paleoecology: Predation/Biotic Interactions, Fidelity/Taphonomy, and Community Ecology/Whole Organism Paleoecology (Posters)
  Monday, 5 November 2012

  9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Hall B

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2011

• A (CYANO-)BACTERIAL ECOSYSTEM IN THE ARCHEAN 3.49 GA DRESSER FORMATION, PILBARA, WESTERN AUSTRALIA
  T56 New Horizons in Precambrian Palynology and Paleobiology
  Sunday, 9 October 2011

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 205CD

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2010

• THEMES AND VARIATIONS IN COMPLEX SYSTEMS
  80 Mineral Evolution: The Coevolution of the Geo- and Biospheres
  Monday, 1 November 2010

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 502
• THE GREAT OXIDATION EVENT, MINERAL DIVERSIFICATION, AND MINERAL CORRELATIONS WITH ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION THROUGH GEOLOGIC TIME
  80 Mineral Evolution: The Coevolution of the Geo- and Biospheres
  Monday, 1 November 2010

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 502
• TERRESTRIAL EVOLUTION OF CLAY MINERALS
  80 Mineral Evolution: The Coevolution of the Geo- and Biospheres
  Monday, 1 November 2010

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 502
• EVOLUTION OF THE MINERALS OF BERYLLIUM, AND COMPARISON WITH BORON MINERAL EVOLUTION
  80 Mineral Evolution: The Coevolution of the Geo- and Biospheres
  Monday, 1 November 2010

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 502
• THE DEEP CARBON OBSERVATORY: UNANSWERED QUESTIONS IN DEEP CARBON SCIENCE
  26 Geochemistry Geology (Posters)
  Sunday, 31 October 2010

  8:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Hall D
• EVOLUTION OF BORON MINERALS: HAS EARLY SPECIES DIVERSITY BEEN LOST FROM THE GEOLOGICAL RECORD?
  31 Mineralogy/Crystallography Geology (Posters)
  Sunday, 31 October 2010

  8:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Hall D
• MOLYBDENITE MINERAL EVOLUTION: A STUDY OF TRACE ELEMENTS THROUGH TIME
  31 Mineralogy/Crystallography Geology (Posters)
  Sunday, 31 October 2010

  8:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Hall D

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2009

• MINERALOGICAL CO-EVOLUTION OF THE GEOSPHERE AND BIOSPHERE
  148 Earth et al.—Our Planets from the Hadean to Today
  Tuesday, 20 October 2009

  8:15 AM - 12:00 PM

  Portland Ballroom 254
• MINERAL SURFACES, AMINO ACIDS, AND THE ORIGINS OF LIFE
  T64 Frontiers in Mineral Sciences: Mineral/Melt Energetics, Mineral Surface Chemistry, Mineral Nanoscience, and High-Pressure Mineralogy II
  Sunday, 18 October 2009

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  E145
• EVOLUTION OF THE MINERALS OF BERYLLIUM, A QUINTESSENTIAL CRUSTAL ELEMENT
  31 Mineralogy/Crystallography (Posters)
  Sunday, 18 October 2009

  9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Hall A

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2007

• MICROBIALLY INDUCED SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURES (MISS) - BIOSIGNATURES IN SANDS AND SANDSTONES
  T47 The Solar Stew: The Search for Ingredients of Life and Biomarkers in Our Solar System: Past or Present
  Sunday, 28 October 2007

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

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2006

• CAN HIGH PRESSURES ENHANCE THE LONG-TERM SURVIVAL OF MICROORGANISMS?
  125 Evidence for Long-Term Survival of Microorganisms and Preservation of DNA
  Tuesday, 24 October 2006

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM