Special Paleoseismology Session at GSA-Denver

Colleagues--

Wanda Taylor (UNLV), Keith Sverdrup (UW-Milwaukee) and I are co-chairing a session that you will be interested in, at the Geological Society of America meeting in Denver, October 28-31, 2007:

Theme Session T80. Active Faulting, Neotectonics, Paleoseismology: A Tribute to James E. Slosson

This session to honor Jim Slosson's work on seismic safety will concentrate on studies concerning the recognition or description of faults active in the Neogene, or characterization and mitigation of seismic hazards.

The abstract deadline is July 10, 2007. The online abstract form and the "call for papers" is available at

http://www.geosociety.org/meetings/2007/science.htm

There is no need for contributors to this session to have known or worked with Jim Slosson, who was the State Geologist of California and an important member of the California Seismic Safety Commission. You can learn more about him by visiting http://www3.baylor.edu/~Vince_Cronin/Slosson/index.html Jim passed away on April 28, 2007, and was aware that Theme Session T80 and four other tribute sessions were being organized in his honor.

In addition to tribute sessions at the AEG and GSA meetings this fall, a special issue of the GSA/AEG publication "Environmental and Engineering Geology" is being organized in honor of Jim Slosson's contributions to geoscience. Authors who contribute to the Slosson-tribute sessions at the AEG and GSA meetings will be asked to consider contributing a manuscript to the special issue.

We are soliciting manuscripts in the topic areas in which Jim had a professional interest (e.g., engineering geology, hydrogeology, coastal geology, earthquake seismology, landslides and debris flows, flooding, building codes, standards of professional practice, geoscience ethics, et cetera). Papers need not specifically address Jim's contributions in these areas, although that would be a nice addition where appropriate.

All manuscripts will be subject to normal peer-review consistent with the high standards of this joint-AEG/GSA journal. We expect to achieve a publication date in the last half of 2008. For further information, contact Vince Cronin, who will join with Robert Larson(ralarson1@dslextreme.com) to be guest editors of the special issue.

And please forward this message to whomever it may interest. Thanks for considering a contribution to this effort.

--Vince
on behalf of Wanda (wanda.taylor@unlv.edu) and Keith (sverdrup@uwm.edu)

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Dr. Vince Cronin, Professor of Structural Geology,
Department of Geology, and
Director, Center for Spatial Research,
Baylor University
Contact data: http://www3.baylor.edu/~Vince_Cronin/Contact.html