GSA Geophysics and Geodynamics Division Woollard Lecture, Business meeting, Awards Ceremony and Luncheon

Special Lecture by Richard G. Gordon, 2025 Woollard Awardee

"Diffuse Oceanic Plate Boundaries"

Richard G. Gordon

• GSA Day Medalist, 2002
• W. M. Keck Foundation Professor in Geophysics, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Rice University

The George P. Woollard Award is given annually by the Geophysics and Geodynamics Division to recognize individuals who have provided outstanding contributions to geology through the application of the principles and techniques of geophysics

Lightning talks from the 2024 Cox and Division Student Graduate Grant Awardees:

• Sapana Regmi: “Effects of Fault strength and Frictional healing on Strain
  accumulation in the Shallow Megathrust at the Cascadia Subduction Margin.”
• Alex Dimonte: “Effect of quartz particle size on quartz-clay gouge friction”
• Laurie Zielinski “Updating Paleomagnetism of the Mesoproterozoic
  Hakatai Shale, Grand Canyon, to Constrain Laurentian Paleogeography”
• We will also hold the G&G business meeting.