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Activity

2025

• EXAMPLES OF PALEOECOLOGY AND PALEOCLIMATE INTERPRETATIONS FROM FOSSIL (LATE PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE) AQUATIC AND TERRESTRIAL GASTROPODS IN ILLINOIS AND INDIANA
  15 Recent Developments in Paleoecology (Posters)
  Thursday, 20 March 2025

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  Shenandoah ABC
• USE OF SOIL PARENT MATERIAL DATA IN DRILL SITE SELECTION FOR A RARE EARTH ELEMENT CLAY ION ADSORPTION REGOLITH STUDY, NORTH CAROLINA
  5 D5. Progress towards energy transition geoscience in the southeast United States (Posters)
  Thursday, 20 March 2025

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Shenandoah ABC

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2024

• QUANTIFYING PLEISTOCENE LOESS PROVENANCE IN MIDCONTINENTAL NORTH AMERICA USING MULTIPLE SEDIMENT SOURCES AND A MIXING MODEL: IMPLICATIONS FOR GLACIAL LOBE EVOLUTION ALONG THE SOUTHERN LAURENTIDE ICE SHEET
  T195 Surf and Turf: Quaternary Landscapes Session in Honor of Dan Muhs (Posters)
  Tuesday, 24 September 2024

  8:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Hall D
• PALEOENVIRONMENTAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE LAST GLACIAL RED DOG LOESS, A PEORIA LOESS EQUIVALENT, WHITE RIVER BADLANDS, SOUTH DAKOTA, USA
  T83 Aeolian Systems in Time and Space
  Monday, 23 September 2024

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  210C
• FOSSIL GASTROPODS AS LATE PLEISTOCENE PALEOENVIRONMENTAL PROXIES, WHITE RIVER BADLANDS, SOUTH DAKOTA, USA
  T40 Aeolian Systems in Time and Space (Posters)
  Sunday, 22 September 2024

  8:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Hall D
• LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM SUMMER TEMPERATURE GRADIENT IN THE CENTRAL USA FROM TERRESTRIAL GASTROPOD ASSEMBLAGES IN PEORIA SILT (LOESS)
  4 Paleoclimatology, Paleoecology, and Conservation Paleobiology: Old Tools and New Tricks for Unraveling the Past and Informing the Future
  Monday, 15 April 2024

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Swannanoa
• TERRESTRIAL GASTROPOD ASSEMBLAGES FROM LAST GLACIAL LOESS IN SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS (KELLER FARM SECTION), IMPLICATIONS TO PALEOCLIMATE AND PALEOECOLOGY
  30 Paleoclimatology, Paleoecology, and Conservation Paleobiology: Old Tools and New Tricks for Unraveling the Past and Informing the Future (Posters)
  Monday, 15 April 2024

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Grand Ballroom

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2023

• RECENT GEOMORPHIC, GEOPHYSICAL, AND LITHOLOGIC DISCOVERIES ON THE ILLINOIS EPISODE (MIS 6) GLACIAL TERRAIN OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS
  T199 Quaternary Glaciations of the Great Lakes Region: Progress in Understanding Sediments, Landforms, Chronology, and Landscape Evolution through Space and Time
  Tuesday, 17 October 2023

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  317 / 318
• QUATERNARY DEPOSITS OF ILLINOIS: MAP UPDATE
  25 Recent Advances in Glacial Geology, Geomorphology, Sedimentology, and Chronology (Posters)
  Friday, 5 May 2023

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  EC 215
• LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM AND LATE GLACIAL EOLIAN SAND ACTIVITY, EAST FORK WHITE RIVER BASIN, INDIANA, USA
  11 Recent Advances in Glacial Geology, Geomorphology, Sedimentology, and Chronology II
  Thursday, 4 May 2023

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  EC 311
• A NEW STATEWIDE QUATERNARY MAP OF ILLINOIS: CURRENT PROGRESS AND NEW FINDINGS
  36 Geologic Maps, Geophysical Maps, 3-D Geological Models, Digital Mapping Techniques, Map Derivatives, and Digital Map Preparation (Posters)
  Saturday, 18 March 2023

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Grand Ballroom A–D

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2022

• ROXANA SILT (LOESS) PROVIDES EVIDENCE FOR MIS-3 GLACIATION IN THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI RIVER DRAINAGE BASIN, USA
  T143 The Status of the Laurentide Ice Sheet during MIS-3 I
  Tuesday, 11 October 2022

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  603
• HYDROCLIMATE INFERENCES FOR THE LAST GLACIAL AND PENULTIMATE GLACIAL MAXIMA BASED ON FOSSIL TERRESTRIAL GASTROPOD ASSEMBLAGES AND STABLE ISOTOPES, CENTRAL USA
  2 Development and Application of Geochemical Proxies to Paleoclimate Studies
  Thursday, 7 April 2022

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  North Meeting Room 201/202

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2021

• DETRITAL ZIRCON GEOCHRONOLOGY OF ILLINOIS-EPISODE GLACIAL DEPOSITS: CONSTRAINING THE DYNAMICS OF THE PENULTIMATE LAURENTIDE GLACIATION IN THE GREAT LAKES REGION
  T193 Dynamics of the Laurentide Ice Sheet (Posters)
  Tuesday, 12 October 2021

  2:30 PM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall A
• DETRITAL ZIRCON GEOCHRONOLOGY AND PROVENANCE OF PLEISTOCENE LOESS AND CONTRIBUTING GLACIAL SOURCES, MIDCONTINENTAL USA
  T193 Dynamics of the Laurentide Ice Sheet (Posters)
  Tuesday, 12 October 2021

  2:30 PM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall A
• UPDATED CHRONOLOGY OF PEORIA SILT ACCUMULATION IN ILLINOIS FROM RADIOCARBON DATING OF TERRESTRIAL GASTROPOD SHELLS AND VEGETATION
  T81 Eolian Processes, Landforms, and Chronologies
  Monday, 11 October 2021

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  D137
• LGM ISOSCAPE OF CENTRAL NORTH AMERICA: IMPLICATIONS FOR AN ICE-PROXIMITY CLIMATE GRADIENT
  T125 Eolian Processes, Landforms, and Chronologies (Posters)
  Monday, 11 October 2021

  2:30 PM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall A
• CONTEMPORANEOUS AND ACCELERATED SLACKWATER LAKE AND LOESS SEDIMENTATION IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS DURING THE LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM (SHELBY PHASE)
  6 A Matter of Time II: Using High-Resolution Stratigraphic and Sedimentologic Techniques to Investigate the Mid-Continent Geologic Record
  Monday, 19 April 2021

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  UALR Earth Science Room

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2020

• INDIRECT EVIDENCE FOR THE SOUTHERN LAURENTIDE ICE MARGIN POSITION DURING MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE 3, FROM PROGLACIAL SEDIMENTS IN ILLINOIS AND INDIANA, USA
  T56 From Hudson Bay to the Coastal Plain: Comparisons of Pre-LGM (Last Glacial Maximum) Quaternary Records in Glaciated and Unglaciated North America I
  Tuesday, 27 October 2020

  10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Meeting Rooms
• SURFICIAL GEOLOGIC MAPPING OF THE BEAVER CREEK QUADRANGLE IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS: HIGHLIGHTING WELL-PRESERVED ILLINOIS EPISODE (MIS 6) ICE-CONTACT LANDFORMS AND DEPOSITS
  49 Geologic Maps, Digital Geologic Maps, Geophysical Maps, and Derivatives from Geologic and Geophysical Maps (Posters)
  Saturday, 21 March 2020

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Grand Ballroom A–D

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2019

• DETRITAL-ZIRCON GEOCHRONOLOGY AND PROVENANCE OF QUATERNARY LOESS IN CENTRAL NORTH AMERICA
  T139 Zircon and Beyond: Quantitative Methods for Characterizing Provenance in Modern and Ancient Sediment Routing Systems
  Monday, 23 September 2019

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 225AB, North Building

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2018

• ACTIVITY OF THE LAURENTIDE ICE SHEET EVIDENT IN SEDIMENT ARCHIVES OF THE LOWER WABASH VALLEY
  T140 Advances in Understanding the Laurentide Ice Sheet II
  Monday, 5 November 2018

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 138-139
• WESTERLY WINDS ACROSS THE NORTH AMERICAN MID-CONTINENT DURING THE LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM: A NEW DATA-MODEL ASSESSMENT
  T69 Where Does the Wind Blow? Aeolian Systems in Time and Space II
  Sunday, 4 November 2018

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 138-139
• PALEOENVIRONMENTAL AND PALEOCLIMATE INFERENCES FROM GASTROPOD ASSEMBLAGES IN LAST GLACIAL LOESS: ILLINOIS, INDIANA, AND KENTUCKY
  41 Eolian Systems of the Midcontinent
  Tuesday, 17 April 2018

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 220
• CRITICAL ZONE STRUCTURE IN THE GLACIATED INTERIOR LOWLANDS, USA: A CONCEPTUAL MODEL FROM THE INTENSIVELY MANAGED LANDSCAPE CRITICAL ZONE OBSERVATORY
  33 Sediments, Landforms, and Chronology of the Laurentide Ice Sheet: Analog or Anomaly? (Posters)
  Tuesday, 17 April 2018

  8:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  First Floor Lobby
• SLACKWATER LAKE RECORD OF SOUTHERN WABASH TRIBUTARY INDICATES ENIGMATIC CA. 40 KA GLACIATION
  25 Reconstructing Glacial Lakes in the Midwest and Great Lakes Regions
  Tuesday, 17 April 2018

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 250/252
• FOSSIL​ ​GASTROPODS​ FOR USE IN ESTIMATING PALEOCLIMATE AND PALEOECOLOGY IN LAST GLACIAL LOESS, SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS
  14 Undergraduate Research Poster Session I (Posters)
  Monday, 16 April 2018

  8:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  First Floor Lobby
• REGIONAL PALEOCLIMATE INFERENCES FROM SUCCINEIDAE GASTROPOD STABLE ISOTOPE ANALYSIS IN LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM LOESS: WARD QUARRY, PLAINFIELD AND CLAYTON SECTIONS
  9 Fossil Insights into Paleoclimatic and Paleoenvironmental Change (Posters)
  Monday, 16 April 2018

  8:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  First Floor Lobby

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2017

• LOESS ACCUMULATION AND HYDROCLIMATE VARIABILITY IN ASSOCIATION WITH LAKE MICHIGAN LOBE FLUCTUATIONS DURING THE LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM
  T110 Glacier-Landscape Interactions, Loess Paleoclimatology, and Interdisciplinary Quaternary Science I: In Memory of Stephen C. Porter
  Monday, 23 October 2017

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Chelan 4
• GEOMORPHOLOGY OF THE ILLINOIS EPISODE GLACIATION (OIS 6) IN ILLINOIS
  31 The Future of Pre-LGM Chronostratigraphy for the Pleistocene: The Glacial and Interglacial Record
  Monday, 20 March 2017

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Conference Center A, Conference Level

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2016

• THE FORMATION OF THE JULES SOIL AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR THE LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM CLIMATE OF WEST-CENTRAL ILLINOIS
  33 Quaternary Time Machine: Methods and Analyses of Soils and Sediments to Reveal Secrets of Past Environments
  Tuesday, 19 April 2016

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Technology Room
• DECIPHERING THE LAST GLACIAL CHRONOLOGY, UPPER SANGAMON RIVER BASIN, ILLINOIS
  3 Quaternary Chronology Conundrums: Approximating and Assessing Event Ages
  Monday, 18 April 2016

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Chancellor Ballroom
• IS IT A DATE?  THE SANGAMONIAN INTERGLACIAL DEPOSITS AT HOPWOOD FARM, IL
  3 Quaternary Chronology Conundrums: Approximating and Assessing Event Ages
  Monday, 18 April 2016

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Chancellor Ballroom
• CHRONOLOGY OF LATE WISCONSINAN LAURENTIDE ICE SHEET ADVANCE AND RETREAT NEAR ITS MAXIMUM LIMIT, SOUTH-CENTRAL INDIANA
  3 Quaternary Chronology Conundrums: Approximating and Assessing Event Ages
  Monday, 18 April 2016

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Chancellor Ballroom

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2015

• REVISITING THE JULES GEOSOL AND GASTROPOD PALEOECOLOGY IN LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM LOESS, WESTERN ILLINOIS
  T285 Paleosol Case Studies: Resurrecting Ancient Critical Zones through Space and Time
  Wednesday, 4 November 2015

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 345/346
• FLY ASH AS A PROXY FOR ANTHROPOGENIC INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION IN UPPER SANGAMON RIVER ALLUVIUM, CENTRAL ILLINOIS
  39 Geomorphology, Hydrology, and Critical Zone Processes in the Anthropocene
  Wednesday, 20 May 2015

  1:30 PM - 4:50 PM

  Hall of Ideas F
• THE IMPACTS OF PAST GLACIATION ON THE RESPONSE TO DEVELOPMENT ACROSS THE UPPER MIDWEST, UNITED STATES
  39 Geomorphology, Hydrology, and Critical Zone Processes in the Anthropocene
  Wednesday, 20 May 2015

  1:30 PM - 4:50 PM

  Hall of Ideas F
• QUANTIFYING MAGNETIC FLY ASH IN POST-SETTLEMENT ALLUVIUM FROM THE SANGAMON RIVER BASIN, ILLINOIS
  34 Geomorphology, Hydrology, and Critical Zone Processes in the Anthropocene (Posters)
  Wednesday, 20 May 2015

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Grand Terrace
• A MULTI-PROXY CLIMATE RECONSTRUCTION OF WESTERN ILLINOIS BASED ON LATE WISCONSIN EPISODE LOESS
  38 Quaternary Time Machine: Methods and Analyses of Soils and Sediments Reveal Secrets of Past Environments
  Wednesday, 20 May 2015

  1:30 PM - 4:50 PM

  Hall of Ideas E

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2013

• ICE-PRESSED RIDGES OF THE PENULTIMATE GLACIATION IN THE KASKASKIA SUBLOBE, SOUTH-CENTRAL ILLINOIS
  T167 Past Records and Future Challenges of Glacier and Ice Sheet Response to Climate Change II: Honoring and Building on the Legacy of Mark Meier
  Monday, 28 October 2013

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  Mile High Ballroom 4EF
• PLEISTOCENE MOLLUSCAN ASSEMBLAGES TO AID UNDERSTANDING OF PALEOENVIRONMENT, PALEOCLIMATE AND CHRONOLOGY: EXAMPLES FROM ILLINOIS
  13 Quaternary Time Machine: Methods and Analyses of Soils and Sediments to Reveal Secrets of Past Environments
  Thursday, 2 May 2013

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 1040/1050
• ICE-WALLED LAKE PLAINS HIGHLIGHTED ON NEW SURFICIAL GEOLOGY MAP OF KANE COUNTY, ILLINOIS
  11 Mapping the Glacial Geology of the Great Lakes States (Posters)
  Thursday, 2 May 2013

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Courtyard

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2011

• SPATIAL ERRORS FOR WELL LOGS USED IN GEOLOGIC MAPPING: THE CONSEQUENCES OF BEING WRONG
  T262 Geologic Maps, Digital Geologic Maps, and Derivatives from Geologic and Geophysical Maps (Posters)
  Wednesday, 12 October 2011

  9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Hall C

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2010

• CHRONOLOGY AND PALEOECOLOGY OF PRE-ILLINOIAN AND ILLINOIAN DEPOSITS IN SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS
  19 Advances in the Chronology, Correlation, and Stratigraphy of Pre-Wisconsinan Glacigenic Sediments
  Monday, 12 April 2010

  1:50 PM - 5:00 PM

  Cooper Creek 3
• GEOCHEMISTRY OF ILLINOIS- AND PRE-ILLINOIS EPISODE SEDIMENT IN SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS
  19 Advances in the Chronology, Correlation, and Stratigraphy of Pre-Wisconsinan Glacigenic Sediments
  Monday, 12 April 2010

  1:50 PM - 5:00 PM

  Cooper Creek 3

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2008

• A LONG LOESS RECORD IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS: 5 INTERGLACIAL, 2 PROMINENT INTERSTADIAL PALEOSOLS, AND 5 LOESS UNITS
  1 Living in Ruhe’s Shadow with Loess, Paleosols, and Tills: A Session in Honor of Bob Hall’s Contributions to Quaternary Science
  Thursday, 24 April 2008

  8:20 AM - 12:00 PM
• LUMINESCENCE AND RADIOCARBON CHRONOLOGY OF LOESS-PALEOSOL SEQUENCES IN THE LOWER OHIO RIVER VALLEY
  1 Living in Ruhe’s Shadow with Loess, Paleosols, and Tills: A Session in Honor of Bob Hall’s Contributions to Quaternary Science
  Thursday, 24 April 2008

  8:20 AM - 12:00 PM