Pardee Keynotes
P1. Expanding Neurotypical Borders: Building a Future of Inclusion with Disabled and Neurodivergent Perspectives in Geoscience
Session Type: Pardee Keynote Symposia
Session Advocates:
Taormina Lepore, Jennifer Wagner, Ian O. Castro
Description:
We invite contributors and audience participants of all backgrounds to learn, lead, and celebrate disability and neurodivergence as core to our fields and our collective and intersectional science identities.
Categories: Geology and Society; Geoscience Education
P2. Groundwater in Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
Session Type: Pardee Keynote Symposia
Session Advocates:
Abhijit Mukherjee, David Kreamer, Prosun Bhattacharya, Donald Rosenberry
Description:
The growing impact of changing climate and land use, and water pollution has underlined the link between groundwater, environment, and society. This Pardee Session reinforces the importance of groundwater in achieving the sustainable development goals
Categories: Hydrogeology; Environmental Geoscience; Geoscience and Public Policy
P3. Geoheritage Without Borders: International Perspectives on the Conservation and Celebration of Geodiversity
Session Type: Pardee Keynote Symposia
Session Advocates:
Priscilla Grew, Jack J. Matthews, John H. Calder, Carles Canet, Mauricio Faraone Pimenta
Description:
Every nation has a story to tell about its geodiversity–-but what are best practices to promote conservation of our geoheritage? This GSA-ProGEO Western Hemisphere session explores innovative partnerships to conserve geoheritage and celebrate geodiversity.
Categories: Geoheritage; Geology and Society; History and Philosophy of Geology
P4. Impact Cratering and the Evolution of Life
Session Type: Pardee Keynote Symposia
Session Advocates:
Nadja Drabon, David Kring
Description:
This session explores the role of impact cratering in life’s evolution throughout Earth’s history, from the origin of life to mass extinctions. It highlights connections between impacts, evolutionary change, and planetary processes.
Categories: Paleontology, Diversity, Extinction, Origination; Planetary Geology; Precambrian Geology