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Activity

2024

• TEPHROCHRONOLOGY OF THE LAST CHANCE RANGE, EASTERN CALIFORNIA: DOCUMENTATION OF THE SALINE RANGE AS A SIGNIFICANT PLIOCENE TEPHRA SOURCE
  T142 Faults and Floods in Western North America: In Memory of the Outstanding Contributions of Dr. Ralph E. Klinger
  Monday, 23 September 2024

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  210B
• TRANSTENSIONAL FAULTING IN THE SOUTHWESTERN GREAT BASIN GOVERNS EVOLUTION OF ENDANGERED AQUATIC SPECIES
  T60 Earth Surface Processes in Tectonically Active and Unstable Regions II
  Sunday, 22 September 2024

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  210B

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2023

• PLEISTOCENE PLUVIAL LAKE DEPOSITS AT THE POVERTY HILLS, INYO COUNTY, CA: EVIDENCE OF GREATER EFFECTIVE PRECIPITATION DURING MARINE ISOTOPE STAGES 22-19 AND 5A/4 IN THE SOUTHWESTERN GREAT BASIN
  T258 Records of Quaternary Climate, Hydrology and Landscape Evolution in the Great Basin, USA
  Wednesday, 18 October 2023

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  321
• TECTONIC GEOMORPHOLOGY, STREAM CAPTURE AND ALLUVIAL FAN/BASIN AREA RELATIONS ALONG THE BLACK MOUNTAINS, DEATH VALLEY, CALIFORNIA
  11 Strike-Slip Faulting, Flower Structures, Plutons, and Tiltmeters II: A Tribute to the Career of Arthur Sylvester
  Wednesday, 17 May 2023

  1:30 PM - 5:00 PM

  Whitney Peak Ballroom 1

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2022

• PLIOCENE DEVELOPMENT AND MIS-4 FRESHWATER LAKE DEPOSITS OF DEEP SPRINGS VALLEY, WESTERN GREAT BASIN, INYO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA: IMPLICATIONS FOR REGIONAL TECTONICS AND PALEOCLIMATE
  11 Geology of Death Valley: Old versus New Ideas, Hypotheses, and Theories
  Tuesday, 15 March 2022

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  CBC-A 110

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2021

• TEPHROCHRONOLOGY OF THE MODELO FORMATION AT BALCOM CANYON, VENTURA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
  T161 Sedimentary Geology Division/SEPM Student Research Poster Competition: Dynamics of Stratigraphy and Sedimentation (Posters)
  Tuesday, 12 October 2021

  9:00 AM - 1:00 PM

  Exhibit Hall A

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2020

• GEOCHEMISTRY OF BASALTS AND TRACHYANDESITES IN NORTHERN OWENS VALLEY, INYO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
  24 Undergraduate Research (Posters)
  Wednesday, 13 May 2020

  9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Fountain Ballroom
• TEPHROCHRONOLOGY OF THE MODELO FORMATION, BALCOM CANYON, VENTURA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
  24 Undergraduate Research (Posters)
  Wednesday, 13 May 2020

  9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Fountain Ballroom

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2019

• TECTONIC REORGANIZATION IN THE DEATH VALLEY AREA AT 4 MA
  T238 Tectonic and Climatic Disruption of Hydrological Systems as a Driver for Evolution of Biota and Ecosystems
  Wednesday, 25 September 2019

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 224A, North Building
• REGIONAL-SCALE DETACHMENT FAULTING AS A MECHANISM FOR CRUSTAL EXTENSION IN THE NORTHERN PORTION OF THE EASTERN CALIFORNIA SHEAR ZONE
  T238 Tectonic and Climatic Disruption of Hydrological Systems as a Driver for Evolution of Biota and Ecosystems
  Wednesday, 25 September 2019

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 224A, North Building
• TECTONIC FRAGMENTATION OF LANDSCAPE DRIVES SPECIES ENDEMISM IN DEATH VALLEY SPRINGS
  T238 Tectonic and Climatic Disruption of Hydrological Systems as a Driver for Evolution of Biota and Ecosystems
  Wednesday, 25 September 2019

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 224A, North Building
• HYDROLOGICAL FRAGMENTATION AND GENETIC ISOLATION OF SPRINGS FOLLOWING TECTONIC EXTENSION IN THE SOUTHERN GREAT BASIN OF NV AND CA
  T238 Tectonic and Climatic Disruption of Hydrological Systems as a Driver for Evolution of Biota and Ecosystems
  Wednesday, 25 September 2019

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 224A, North Building
• TWINNING STRAINS FROM SYN-FAULTING CALCITE GOUGE: SMALL-OFFSET STRIKE-SLIP, NORMAL AND THRUST FAULTS
  T215 Structure and Tectonic Studies, from Outcrop to Supercontinent II: In Honor of Ian Dalziel
  Tuesday, 24 September 2019

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 229A, North Building
• CLAST PROVENANCE, TEPHROCHRONOLOGY, AND DETRITAL ZIRCON DATING OF PLIOCENE FLUVIAL CONGLOMERATE, DEEP SPRINGS VALLEY, CA: IMPLICATIONS FOR EASTERN CALIFORNIA PALEOHYDROLOGY
  105 D9. Recent Advances in Geomorphology (Posters)
  Monday, 23 September 2019

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Hall AB, North Building

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2018

• DEVELOPMENT OF A ~3.3 MA SANIDINE STANDARD FOR 40AR/39AR DATING
  261 D29. Petrology, Metamorphic (Posters)
  Wednesday, 7 November 2018

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Halls J-K
• LAKE ANDREI: A PLIOCENE PLUVIAL LAKE IN EUREKA VALLEY, EASTERN CALIFORNIA
  T9 Lakes through Space and Time I
  Sunday, 4 November 2018

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 134
• PALEOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION OF THE FISH LAKE VALLEY/HORSE THIEF HILLS AREA USING GEOCHEMISTRY OF VOLCANIC ROCKS
  62 Tectonics of the Death Valley Region: A Tribute to Bennie Troxel and Lauren Wright (Posters)
  Thursday, 17 May 2018

  8:30 AM - 4:30 PM

  Outdoor Tents
• GEOCHEMICAL CORRELATION OF BASALTS IN THE SYLVANIA MOUNTAINS, CALIFORNIA AND NEVADA
  62 Tectonics of the Death Valley Region: A Tribute to Bennie Troxel and Lauren Wright (Posters)
  Thursday, 17 May 2018

  8:30 AM - 4:30 PM

  Outdoor Tents
• IDENTIFICATION OF HUNTER MOUNTAIN BATHOLITH CLASTS IN THE FURNACE CREEK FORMATION, DEATH VALLEY, CALIFORNIA
  3 Tectonics of the Death Valley Region II: A Tribute to Bennie Troxel and Lauren Wright
  Tuesday, 15 May 2018

  10:20 AM - 12:05 PM

  Canyon Room

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2016

• CONSTRAINING SLIP RATES ON THE TOWNE PASS FAULT, NORTHERN DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, CALIFORNIA
  265 Structural Geology: Active and Ancient Deformation in North America and around the World (Posters)
  Tuesday, 27 September 2016

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall E/F
• LATE NEOGENE-QUATERNARY TEPHROCHRONOLOGY, STRATIGRAPHY AND PALEOCLIMATE OF DEATH VALLEY, CA, U.S.A
  T142 Sedimentary Basins
  Monday, 26 September 2016

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 401
• USING TEPHROCHRONOLOGY, 40AR/39AR, OSTRACODS, AND DIATOMS TO DATE AND RECONSTRUCT THE ENVIRONMENT OF AN EARLY PLEISTOCENE TIME-SLICE OF WAUCOBA LAKE, INYO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, USA
  T73 A Celebration of Lakes-Past and Present (Posters): In Honor of Dan Livingstone
  Sunday, 25 September 2016

  9:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall E/F
• PLUVIAL LAKE DEPOSITS OF DEEP SPRINGS VALLEY, CALIFORNIA
  15 Neotectonics and Magmatism in Death Valley and Southwestern Basin and Range (Posters)
  Tuesday, 5 April 2016

  8:30 AM - 5:30 PM

  Ballroom C
• TECTONIC GEOMORPHOLOGY OF THE WESTERN BLACK MOUNTAINS AND BLACK MOUNTAINS FAULT ZONE, DEATH VALLEY, CALIFORNIA
  1 Neotectonics and Magmatism in Death Valley and Southwestern Basin and Range I
  Monday, 4 April 2016

  8:30 AM - 12:30 PM

  Meeting Room 200 C

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2015

• EVALUATING METHODS OF FIELD-BASED 3D VISUALIZATION AND THEIR APPLICATION TO MAPPING METAMORPHIC TERRANES: AN EXAMPLE FROM THE PANAMINT MOUNTAINS, CALIFORNIA
  T157 Entering Our Third Century in the Footsteps of William Smith: Status and Future of Geological Mapping
  Monday, 2 November 2015

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 336

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2014

• LATE NEOGENE GEOLOGY OF THE LAST CHANCE RANGE: IMPLICATIONS FOR PALEOHYDROLOGY OF THE DEATH VALLEY AREA, EASTERN CALIFORNIA
  T151 Modern and Ancient Continental Depositional Environments: Linking Landscape Evolution with Fluvial Systems and Lacustrine Basins through the Cenozoic
  Monday, 20 October 2014

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  211
• ORIGIN OF DEBRIS FLOW DEPOSITS ON STARVATION CANYON FAN,DEATH VALLEY, CALIFORNIA
  31 Earth's Surface and Humanity (Posters)
  Wednesday, 21 May 2014

  8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

  Ballroom B, C, D
• GEOCHEMICAL CORRELATION OF BASALTS IN NORTHERN DEEP SPRINGS VALLEY, CALIFORNIA, BY X-RAY FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY (XRF)
  5 Petrology, Geochemistry, and Deformation (Posters)
  Monday, 19 May 2014

  8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

  Ballroom B, C, D

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2013

• LATE NEOGENE DEPOSITION IN THE LAST CHANCE RANGE, EASTERN CALIFORNIA
  10 Reconstructing the Pacific-North America Plate Boundary Through Late Cenozoic Time (Posters)
  Monday, 20 May 2013

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Salon B/C
• FAULT SCARP MORPHOLOGY ALONG THE EUREKA VALLEY FAULT ZONE, EASTERN CALIFORNIA, U.S.A
  10 Reconstructing the Pacific-North America Plate Boundary Through Late Cenozoic Time (Posters)
  Monday, 20 May 2013

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Salon B/C

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2010

• STUDENT LEARNING GAINS IN TRADITIONAL AND INTERACTIVE ENGAGEMENT CLASSROOMS AT A PUBLIC, FOUR-YEAR UNIVERSITY MEASURED BY THE GEOSCIENCE CONCEPT INVENTORY (GCI)
  T235 Clickers in the Classroom: Fun and Games, Learning Tool, or Both?
  Wednesday, 3 November 2010

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Mile High Ballroom 4AB
• PALEOMAGNETIC AND RADIOCARBON RECORD OF THE SEARLES LAKE FORMATION AT POISON CANYON, SAN BERNARDINO, CA
  28 Terrestrial and Marine Records of Late Quaternary Climate from Western North America/Eastern Pacific: Developments, Comparisons, and Directions (Posters)
  Friday, 28 May 2010

  8:30 AM - 12:00 PM

  Platinum 5-6
• GEOCHRONOLOGY AND PALEOENVIRONMENT OF PLUVIAL HARPER LAKE, MOJAVE DESERT, CALIFORNIA
  28 Terrestrial and Marine Records of Late Quaternary Climate from Western North America/Eastern Pacific: Developments, Comparisons, and Directions (Posters)
  Friday, 28 May 2010

  8:30 AM - 12:00 PM

  Platinum 5-6
• TECTONIC GEOMORPHOLOGY OF THE SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA MOUNTAINS (CALIFORNIA): EVIDENCE FOR UPLIFT AND BASIN FORMATION
  30 Sierra Nevada Microplate-Basement and Basins II
  Friday, 28 May 2010

  1:30 PM - 5:00 PM

  Platinum 2
• EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE AND RECURRENCE FROM SCARP MORPHOLOGY, EUREKA VALLEY FAULT ZONE, EASTERN CALIFORNIA
  18 Undergraduate Research in Geoscience (Posters)
  Thursday, 27 May 2010

  1:30 PM - 5:00 PM

  Platinum 5-6
• USING REPEAT PHOTOGRAPHY TO DOCUMENT LANDSCAPE CHANGE IN DEATH VALLEY OVER THE LAST 100 YEARS
  18 Undergraduate Research in Geoscience (Posters)
  Thursday, 27 May 2010

  1:30 PM - 5:00 PM

  Platinum 5-6
• MINOR AND TRACE ELEMENT GLASS COMPOSITION OF LATEST PLEISTOCENE TEPHRA LAYERS FROM THE WILSON CREEK FORMATION, MONO LAKE, CALIFORNIA, USING INSTRUMENTAL NEUTRON ACTIVATION
  18 Undergraduate Research in Geoscience (Posters)
  Thursday, 27 May 2010

  1:30 PM - 5:00 PM

  Platinum 5-6

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2009

• LASER ABLATION INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY OF THE PLEISTOCENE WILSON CREEK ASH BEDS, INYO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
  T258 Sigma Gamma Epsilon Undergraduate Research (Posters)
  Wednesday, 21 October 2009

  9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Hall A
• NEW RATES OF PLEISTOCENE SLIP ON THE DEATH VALLEY FAULT
  T81 Alluvial Records: Numerical Dating and Archives of Climatic, Environmental, and Neotectonic Change
  Monday, 19 October 2009

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  B114/115
• PLIOCENE AND PLEISTOCENE TEPHROCHRONOLOGY AND PALEOENVIRONMENTS OF THE KIT FOX HILLS, DEATH VALLEY, CA
  T56 Paleoseismology, Arid-Region Soils, and Quaternary Geology: A Tribute to Michael Machette's 35 Years of Quaternary Research
  Sunday, 18 October 2009

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  B114/115
• PALEOMAGNETISM OF THE FURNACE CREEK FORMATION IN ZABRISKIE WASH, DEATH VALLEY, CALIFORNIA
  T56 Paleoseismology, Arid-Region Soils, and Quaternary Geology: A Tribute to Michael Machette's 35 Years of Quaternary Research
  Sunday, 18 October 2009

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  B114/115

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2008

• DETERMINING THE TIMING AND OFFSET OF SECONDARY NORMAL FAULTS IN THE KIT FOX HILLS ADJACENT THE NORTHERN DEATH VALLEY FAULT ZONE
  16 Undergraduate Research (Posters)
  Thursday, 20 March 2008

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• RECONSTRUCTING LATE PLIOCENE TO MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE DEATH VALLEY LAKES AND RIVER SYSTEMS AS A TEST OF PUPFISH (CYPRINODONTIDAE) DISPERSAL HYPOTHESES
  8 Rancholabrean Paleoecology of Western North America
  Wednesday, 19 March 2008

  1:30 PM - 5:00 PM
• GEOCHRONOLOGY AND PALEOENVIRONMENT OF PLUVIAL HARPER LAKE, MOJAVE DESERT, CALIFORNIA
  8 Rancholabrean Paleoecology of Western North America
  Wednesday, 19 March 2008

  1:30 PM - 5:00 PM

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2006

• ON-CAMPUS RECRUITMENT OF GEOLOGY MAJORS: DEVELOPING ALTERNATIVES TO PHYSICAL GEOLOGY AT A LARGE STATE UNIVERSITY
  T235 Building New and Rebuilding Defunct College and University Geoscience Programs for the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities, Successes and Failures (Posters)
  Wednesday, 25 October 2006

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
• PALEOMAGNETICS AND TEPHROCHRONOLOGY OF PLEISTOCENE AND PLIOCENE LAKES, DEATH VALLEY, CALIFORNIA
  T164 Magnetostratigraphy of Critical Intervals in Earth History: Contributions to Geochronology, Geobiology, Paleogeography, and Global Change
  Tuesday, 24 October 2006

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

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2005

• QUATERNARY UPLIFT OF THE SANTA ANA MOUNTAIN FOOTHILLS, ORANGE COUNTY, CA: CONSTRAINTS FROM FLUVIAL TERRACE ANALYSIS
  207 Quaternary Geology II
  Wednesday, 19 October 2005

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• SOLUTION AND TIME OF FLIGHT LASER ABLATION ICP-MS MEASUREMENT OF MINOR AND TRACE ELEMENTS: AN EXAMPLE FROM DEATH VALLEY, CALIFORNIA
  T74 Advances and Applications of Tephrochronology and Tephrostratigraphy II: In Honor of Andrei M. Sarna-Wojcicki
  Monday, 17 October 2005

  10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• TEPHROCHRONOLOGY, 40AR/39AR DATING, AND MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY OF THE UPPER PART OF THE FURNACE CREEK FORMATION, DEATH VALLEY, CALIFORNIA
  T74 Advances and Applications of Tephrochronology and Tephrostratigraphy II: In Honor of Andrei M. Sarna-Wojcicki
  Monday, 17 October 2005

  10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• GEOCHRONOLOGY AND STRATIGRAPHY OF THE UPPER FURNACE CREEK FORMATION, DEATH VALLEY, INYO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
  10 Undergraduate Research (Posters)
  Friday, 29 April 2005

  9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
• TEPHROCHRONOLOGY OF THE NORTHERN KIT FOX HILLS, DEATH VALLEY, CALIFORNIA
  10 Undergraduate Research (Posters)
  Friday, 29 April 2005

  9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

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2004

• ENGAGING STUDENTS AND IMPROVING STUDENT LEARNING IN INTRODUCTORY GEOSCIENCE CLASSES USING CONCEPTEST QUESTIONS
  T211 Electronic Student Response Technology in the Geoscience Classroom: Is it a Valuable Teaching and Learning Tool?
  Wednesday, 10 November 2004

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• ENHANCING STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT AND GEOLOGY MAJORS THROUGH INTEGRATION OF FIELD TRIPS INTO GENERAL EDUCATION COURSES
  T62 Using Field Observations and Field Experiences to Teach Geoscience: An Illustrated Community Discussion (Posters)
  Sunday, 7 November 2004

  6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

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2003

• USING CONCEPTESTS IN MULTIPLE INTRODUCTORY COURSES
  T192 Large Intro Courses That Work: Sharing Exciting and Effective Teaching Strategies (Posters)
  Tuesday, 4 November 2003

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

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2002

• THE DEATH VALLEY FAULT SYSTEM: AN UNAPPRECIATED SEISMIC HAZARD TO DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK
  T200 Geology in the National Parks I: Research, Mapping, Education, and Interpretation
  Wednesday, 30 October 2002

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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Date Unknown

• ORGANIC COMPOUNDS AS INDICATORS OF BIODEGRADATION IN GROUNDWATER
  T129 From Geochemistry of the Geosphere, Atmosphere, and Cosmos to Forensic Environmental Geochemistry (Posters): A Tribute to Ian Kaplan
• The Kit Fox Hills: Pleistocene Uplift and Basin Development in Death Valley, California
  147 Structural Geology / Tectonics / Neotectonics/Paleoseismology (Posters)
• COMPARISON OF MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE RECORDS IN DEATH, PANAMINT, AND TECOPA VALLEYS, CALIFORNIA: IMPLICATIONS FOR REGIONAL PALEOCLIMATE
  154 Quaternary Geology/Geomorphology (Posters) II: Landscape Processes and Histories
• CHANGING PEDAGOGY TO INCLUDE CONCEPTESTS AND PEER INSTRUCTION IN INTRODUCTORY GEOSCIENCE COURSES: THE IMPACT ON INSTRUCTORS AND STUDENTS
  87 Geoscience Education (Posters)
• FAULT SLIP RATES ON THE NORTHERN DEATH VALLEY FAULT ZONE AND EASTERN CALIFORNIA SHEAR ZONE KINEMATICS
  28 Tectonics (Posters)