Join us at GSA Connects 2024 to learn new skills, advance your career, and grow your professional contacts!
Did you know most professionals agree that building your networking skills is one of the most important things to develop in your career? Grow this important ability at GSA Connects 2024! From career workshops and mentoring opportunities to networking events, there are nearly endless opportunities that make GSA Connects 2024 valuable for students and early career professionals.
GSA wants you to have outstanding experience at Connects 2024. Whether you are presenting, networking, or attending to hear experts in your field, we have you covered. Below are resources to help you attend GSA Connects 2024. Interested in being more involved with GSA? Reach out to Jessica Harbeson, jharbeson@geosociety.org, or Jennifer Nocerino, jnocerino@geosociety.org.
Travel Grants
Division Grants & Awards
Student Volunteer Program (check back soon for more information)
This year our average short course price is only $60 helping you to expand your skills and network for your geology career. Sign up today!
Short Course Prices and Benefits
- $25 or less and get free eBooks after you attend: OneStratigraphy Database (518) and Food-Energy-Water-Nexus-based Education (520)
- $40 online before the meeting: Engineering Geology (501) and Data Visualization in Tableau (502).
- $55 or less in person:
- Communicating Science $15 (511),
- Tectonochronology $25 (521),
- Geo-Thermo-Petro-Chronology $30 (504 & 510),
- ArcGIS Pro for Planetary Geology $40 (513),
- Open Topography $50 (517),
- Detrital Geochronology Data $50 (514), and
- Quality Management Systems $55 (523)
- Prepare for the Job You Want: $95 (522). Make connections between the skills you are building and those that are sought by employers.
This year many of our field trips are free to students and early career professionals if you act fast. Grants will be provided on a rolling basis through 1 August, with those applying early having the greatest opportunity for funding.
Apply for Field Trip Funding
GSA/Chevron Field Trip Grant
The GSA/Chevron Field Trip Grant will cover your registration to learn about:
- Active Faults in Death Valley National Park (401)
- Fracture Systems in the Sierra Nevada Batholith, California (402)
- Tectonic, Sedimentological, Geomorphic, and Thermal Features in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park (403)
- Rare Earth Elements (REE) mine at Mountain Pass, California (404)
- Asphalt Deposits in Santa Barbara County (406)
- Late Quaternary Uplift and Deformation in Santa Ynez Valley (407)
- Debris Flow Events in the San Bernardino Mountains (408)
- Sites of Petroleum and Geological Interest in California (409)
- Dynamic Geology of Coastal Orange County (410)
- La Brea Tar Pits (412)
- Jet Propulsion Lab (413)
- Complex Geology of the Coyote Mountains (415)
- Wallace Creek, Part of the San Andreas Fault (416)
- Geology and Paleontology of Disneyland (417)
- Deep-water Slope Systems in Torrey Pines State Reserve (418)
- Volcanism and Tectonics in the Mojave Desert (420)
- Volcanism in Hawaii (421)
More Funding
The Warren Hamilton Fund will cover your cost to examine the stratigraphic record of the Southern California Continental Margin (405).
GSA's Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division will cover your cost to visit locations along the San Andreas Fault (410).
GSA’s Marine and Coastal Geoscience Division will cover your cost to examine sea cliff exposures on Eastern Santa Cruz Island, part of the Channel Islands National Park (414).