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Activity

2019

• HAPPY 100TH BIRTHDAY TO THE MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA FROM ITS 100TH PRESIDENT, AND HOW TO MAKE IT TO 200
  T137 Mineralogical Society of America (MSA) at 100: Reflections, Refractions, Diffractions, Intrusions, Subductions, Reactions, etc. from MSA Past Presidents II
  Monday, 23 September 2019

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 131ABC, North Building

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2017

• EXCELIBR: AN EXCEL SPREADSHEET FOR SOLVING THE OPTICAL ORIENTATION OF UNIAXIAL AND BIAXIAL CRYSTALS
  267 D33. Mineralogy/Crystallography (Posters)
  Tuesday, 24 October 2017

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Halls 4EF
• STABLE O AND H ISOTOPE APPLICATIONS FOR SOURCING COMMERCIAL TALC AND UNDERSTANDING ENVIRONMENTS OF TALC FORMATION
  T106 Celebrating Dr. John W. Valley's Contributions to Isotope Geochemistry and Beyond, from the Hadean to the Holocene I
  Monday, 23 October 2017

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Skagit 2

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2014

• “ASBESTOS-RELATED” ISSUES SURROUNDING THE FORMER VERMICULATE MINE NEAR LIBBY, MONTANA:  A CASE STUDY IN GEOLOGY, MEDIA, ETHICS, REGULATIONS, PUBLIC POLICY, HEALTH, AND LEGAL ISSUES
  T276 Improving Learning Outcomes by Transforming the Geoscience Classroom
  Wednesday, 22 October 2014

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  210
• GEOSOURCING TALC AND TALC ORES:  ACADEMIC AND INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS
  114 Mineralogy/Crystallography (Posters)
  Monday, 20 October 2014

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibition Hall C
• THE "IDAHO METHOD": SETTING THE SCALE FOR IDENTIFICATION OF FIBROUS AND ACICULAR ZEOLITES
  114 Mineralogy/Crystallography (Posters)
  Monday, 20 October 2014

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibition Hall C
• EVALUATING THE DISTRIBUTION OF MINERALS LISTED AS GROUP ONE HUMAN CARCINOGENS IN SOILS ACROSS THE CONTERMINOUS UNITED STATES
  114 Mineralogy/Crystallography (Posters)
  Monday, 20 October 2014

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibition Hall C
• USE OF ELECTRON BACKSCATTER DIFFRACTION FOR RAPID IDENTIFICATION OF MINERAL PARTICULATE: EXAMPLES FROM UNPOLISHED SPECIMENS OF ASBESTOS REFERENCE MATERIALS, ZEOLITES, AND AIRBORNE PARTICULATES
  114 Mineralogy/Crystallography (Posters)
  Monday, 20 October 2014

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibition Hall C
• FORMATION OF ASBESTIFORM TALC FROM NON-ASBESTIFORM CHAIN-SILICATES IN THE GOUVERNEUR, NEW YORK TALC MINING DISTRICT
  T13 Asbestos, Fibrous Zeolites, and Other Elongate Mineral Particles (EMP) of Environmental Concern: Where Mineralogy and Geology Meet Epidemiology, Industrial Hygiene, and Public Policy
  Sunday, 19 October 2014

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  202/203

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2013

• COMPOSITIONAL ANALYSIS AND MORPHOLOGICAL RELATIONSHIPS OF AMPHIBOLES, TALC, AND OTHER MINERALS FOUND IN THE TALC DEPOSITS FROM THE GOUVERNEUR MINING DISTRICT, NEW YORK, USA
  T373 Advances in Mineralogy, Crystallography, and Petrology: In Honor of Frank C. Hawthorne, 2013 Roebling Medalist (Posters)
  Wednesday, 30 October 2013

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Hall D
• FINGERPRINTING TALC, TALC ORE AND TALC PRODUCTS BY COMPOSITION AND MINERAL ASSEMBLAGE
  T353 Forensic Geoscience: Advances and Applications (Posters)
  Wednesday, 30 October 2013

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Hall D
• TO BE OR NOT TO BE A FIBROUS ZEOLITE: OPTICAL PROPERTIES, CRYSTAL STRUCTURE AND HEALTH CONCERNS
  33 Geology and Health: Recent Advances in Medical Geology (Posters)
  Sunday, 27 October 2013

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Hall D

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2012

• SPIRALING SYSTEMATICALLY THROUGH A MINERALOGY COURSE
  T242 New Strategies for Teaching Mineralogy, Petrology, Geochemistry, and Volcanology (MPVG) to Geoscience Majors and General Education Students (Posters)
  Wednesday, 7 November 2012

  9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Hall B
• LAB MANUAL FOR A MINERALOGY AND OPTICAL MINERALOGY COURSE
  T242 New Strategies for Teaching Mineralogy, Petrology, Geochemistry, and Volcanology (MPVG) to Geoscience Majors and General Education Students (Posters)
  Wednesday, 7 November 2012

  9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Hall B
• AN UPDATE ON 35 YEARS OF BLOSS' TURNING POINT
  T16 Bloss Mineralogical Session I: In Honor of the Life-Time Accomplishments of F. Donald Bloss, Emeritus Alumni Distinguished Professor, Virginia Tech, as a Researcher, Author, and Teacher in the Field of Optical Mineralogy
  Sunday, 4 November 2012

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  208B
• QUANTIFYING PERCENT AMPHIBOLE ASBESTOS BY POWDER X-RAY DIFFRACTION AND POLARIZING LIGHT MICROSCOPY: USING SOILS FROM LIBBY, MONTANA AND EL DORADO HILLS, CALIFORNIA USA
  T57 Bloss Mineralogical Session II: In Honor of the Life-Time Accomplishments of F. Donald Bloss, Emeritus Alumni Distinguished Professor, Virginia Tech, as a Researcher, Author, and Teacher in the Field of Optical Mineralogy
  Sunday, 4 November 2012

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  208B
• MINERALOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF TALC ORE AND COMMERCIAL TALC PRODUCTS FROM THE GOUVERNEUR MINING DISTRICT, NEW YORK: ORIGINS OF ASBESTIFORM TALC
  T57 Bloss Mineralogical Session II: In Honor of the Life-Time Accomplishments of F. Donald Bloss, Emeritus Alumni Distinguished Professor, Virginia Tech, as a Researcher, Author, and Teacher in the Field of Optical Mineralogy
  Sunday, 4 November 2012

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  208B
• OPTICAL, RAMAN, AND MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF ROCK THIN SECTIONS FROM THE ARNOLD PIT FORMER TALC MINE NEAR BALMAT, NEW YORK FOR ASBESTIFORM MINERALS
  T57 Bloss Mineralogical Session II: In Honor of the Life-Time Accomplishments of F. Donald Bloss, Emeritus Alumni Distinguished Professor, Virginia Tech, as a Researcher, Author, and Teacher in the Field of Optical Mineralogy
  Sunday, 4 November 2012

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  208B

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2011

• PARTICULATE PHASE IDENTIFICATION USING SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY, ENERGY DISPERSIVE X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY AND ELECTRON BACKSCATTER DIFFRACTION (SEM/EDS/EBSD): YOU WANT ME TO POLISH WHAT!?!
  247 Mineralogy/Crystallography (Posters)
  Wednesday, 12 October 2011

  9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Hall C

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2010

• IRON REDOX IN FIBERS AND FRAGMENTS OF AMPHIBOLES FROM THE FORMER VERMICULITE MINE NEAR LIBBY, MONTANA
  79 Environmental Geoscience and Health (Posters)
  Tuesday, 16 March 2010

  1:30 PM - 5:35 PM

  International ABCDF
• GEOCHEMISTRY IN THE LUNG: REACTION-PATH MODELING AND EXPERIMENTAL EXAMINATION OF ROCK-FORMING MINERALS UNDER PHYSIOLOGIC CONDITIONS
  4 Asbestos I: Past, Present, and Future
  Sunday, 14 March 2010

  8:00 AM - 12:05 PM

  Carroll

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2009

• THE SCIENCE AND POLITICS OF SO-CALLED "NATURALLY OCCURRING ASBESTOS": WHY WE MUST ONLY DEAL WITH THE SCIENCE
  T233 Issues Surrounding Exposure to Asbestos and Other Potentially Hazardous Fibrous Minerals Occurring in Their Natural Settings I
  Wednesday, 21 October 2009

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  E143/144
• USING THE USDA-NRCS SOIL SURVEY DATABASE TO EVALUATE AMPHIBOLE CONTENT OF SOILS IN THE UNITED STATES
  T233 Issues Surrounding Exposure to Asbestos and Other Potentially Hazardous Fibrous Minerals Occurring in Their Natural Settings I
  Wednesday, 21 October 2009

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  E143/144
• ASBESTOS AND RATIONAL PUBLIC POLICY: ARE THESE TWO TOPICS IMMISCIBLE?
  T214 Ensuring Geologic Controversies are Addressed with Good Science in the Classroom, the Community, and the Capitol
  Tuesday, 20 October 2009

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  B113

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2008

• Teaching Mineralogy to Earth Scientists Using Spiral Learning and Computer Animations
  T221 What Should Students be Learning in Our Geology Classrooms?
  Monday, 6 October 2008

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
• Low-Level Detection of Amphiboles In Talc: Fingerprint Kits as An Example
  193 Mineralogy/Crystallography; Petrology, Experimental; Igneous; Metamorphic (Posters)
  Monday, 6 October 2008

  8:00 AM - 6:00 PM
• Mineralogical Characterization of Tailings at the Vermont Asbestos Group Mine, Belvidere Mountain, Northern Vermont
  193 Mineralogy/Crystallography; Petrology, Experimental; Igneous; Metamorphic (Posters)
  Monday, 6 October 2008

  8:00 AM - 6:00 PM
• Amphibole Asbestos Contamination of Soil In Libby, Montana from a Former Vermiculite Mine, or Not?
  T132 Environmental Mineralogy
  Sunday, 5 October 2008

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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2007

• A NEEDLE IN THE X-RAY HAYSTACK: DETECTION LIMITS IN POWDER X-RAY DIFFRACTION OF GEOLOGIC MATERIALS
  T170 Forensic Geoscience: Research and Case Studies
  Tuesday, 30 October 2007

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

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2006

• AND WE THOUGHT ALL MINERALS WERE NATURALLY OCCURRING: THE NEED FOR A RATIONAL PUBLIC POLICY DEALING WITH SO-CALLED NATURAL OCCURRING ASBESTOS
  T45 Geology, Health, and Public Policy
  Sunday, 22 October 2006

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
• AMPHIBOLES BETWEEN THE SHEETS: AN INTERESTING OCCURRENCE WITH EVEN MORE INTERESTING MORPHOLOGIES
  T41 Petrologic Mineralogy—The Study of Minerals in Context II: In Honor of Charles V. Guidotti
  Sunday, 22 October 2006

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

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2004

• ENVIRONMENTAL MINERALOGY FROM A TO Z WITH I IN THE MIDDLE: A BACKWARD LOOK TO THE FUTURE
  T141 Looking Forward to the Past: A Session in Honor of Paul Ribbe and the Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry II
  Tuesday, 9 November 2004

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• AN OVERVIEW OF THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE CONCERNS SURROUNDING THE ASBESTOS CONTENT OF VERMICULITE ORE FROM LIBBY, MONTANA
  7 Medical Geology
  Sunday, 7 November 2004

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• A MINERALOGIST DOES RISK AND EPIDEMIOLOGY, AND OTHER CRITICAL THINKING EXERCISES IN GEOLOGY AND HUMAN HEALTH
  T46 Teaching Geology and Human Health: Expanding the Curriculum
  Sunday, 7 November 2004

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

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2002

• A STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF SELENIUM IN THE PERMIAN PHOSPHORIA FORMATION, SOUTHEASTERN IDAHO
  T234 Phosphates: Geochemical, Geobiological, and Materials Importance II
  Wednesday, 30 October 2002

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
• MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATIONS OF AMPHIBOLE AND AMPHIBOLE-ASBESTOS FROM LIBBY, MONTANA U.S.A. BY POLARIZED LIGHT MICROSCOPY
  53 Environmental Geoscience
  Monday, 28 October 2002

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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2001

• MÖSSBAUER SPECTROSCOPY OF AMPHIBOLE-ASBESTOS FROM LIBBY, MONTANA: IMPLICATIONS FOR ASBESTOS CLASSIFICATION
  158 Mineralogy/Crystallography
  Thursday, 8 November 2001

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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• CRYSTAL CHEMISTRY IN THE ATTIC: DIFFERENTIATING COMMERCIAL VERMICULITE FROM LIBBY, MONTANA FROM OTHER COMMERCIAL VERMICULITES ON THE BASIS OF “WHOLE-ROCK” CHEMICAL ANALYSIS
  T259 The Impact of Crystal Chemistry in the Earth Sciences (Posters): A Tribute to Charles T. Prewitt, Recipient of the 2003 Roebling Medal of the Mineralogical Society of America
• TEACHING CONCEPTS OF POLARIZED LIGHT MICROSCOPY WITHOUT USING A POLARIZING LIGHT MICROSCOPE
  T113 Teaching Instrumentation to Geoscience Students: Course Design, Objectives, and Presentations (Posters)
• CHARACTERIZATION OF HISTORICAL AMPHIBOLE SAMPLES FROM THE FORMER VERMICULITE MINE NEAR LIBBY, MONTANA U.S.A
  T118 Petrologic Mineralogy—The Study of Minerals in Context (Posters): In Honor of Charles V. Guidotti
• THE LUNG AS AN AIR SAMPLER
  22 Environmental Geoscience; Geology and Health; Public Policy I: Environmental Health, Natural Hazard Assessment, and Environmental Remediation and Water Management (Posters)
• CALCULATIONS, OBSERVATIONS, AND APPLICATIONS OF BIREFRINGENCE OF NATURAL AND CATION-EXCHANGED ZEOLITES
  158 Mineralogy/Crystallography (Posters)
• PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS ON THE PROVENANCE OF INDUSTRIAL VERMICULITES BY POWDER X-RAY DIFFRACTION
  T259 The Impact of Crystal Chemistry in the Earth Sciences (Posters): A Tribute to Charles T. Prewitt, Recipient of the 2003 Roebling Medal of the Mineralogical Society of America
• FELDSPAR FORENSICS: A CASE STUDY IN NORTHERN IDAHO
  T147 Geology, Health, Forensics and Public Policy (Posters)
• MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF AMPHIBOLES USED IN IN VIVO STUDIES
  T147 Geology, Health, Forensics and Public Policy (Posters)