Pardee Session 3: Geoheritage

Geoheritage: Celebrating Our Past, Protecting Our Future
2021 Pardee Keynote Symposium 3

Mammoth Terraces

Geoheritage impacts our professional, public, and personal lives. Your voices and perspectives ARE important. Join us for awareness of the importance of Geoheritage to the ongoing health of our profession, and the empowerment to recognize, conserve, and sustain the landscapes that impact our lives.

Continue your Geoheritage journey with Story Maps, Videos, K-12 Education Resources, and Additional Tools that can inspire and support you as you engage with Geoheritage activities as a geoscience professional.

Celebrating Geoheritage through Story Maps

Many organizations share their Geoheritage projects through virtual field trips or other map-based web services. We have assembled a few examples of these excellent on-the-ground resources for you to explore.

A storymap dashboard.

Celebrating Geoheritage Through Story Maps (arcgis.com)

Celebrating Geoheritage Videos

Celebrating Successes

Bridgeport Quarry, submitted by Roy Plotnick, University of Illinois Chicago

Connecting Geoheritage with Curriculum Standards, submitted by Rebecca Dodge, Midwestern State University

Kentucky’s Natural Sandstone Arches, submitted by Steven Martin, Kentucky Geological Survey

Florissant Fossil Beds, submitted by Herb Meyer, US National Park Service

Reflecting on Rock River, submitted by Marvin Higgins, Geoheritage Enthusiast

The Beartooth Mountains, submitted by David Mogk, Montana State University

Grand Caverns, submitted by Austin Shank, City of Grottoes, Virginia, and Angel Garcia, James Madison University

Turner Falls, submitted by Zachary Clowdus, University of Texas at Dallas

Tropical Seas in Ancient New York: A 490 Million Year-Old Sea Floor with Stromatolites at Lester Park, submitted by Dr. Ed Landing, New York State Paleontologist, emeritus, New York State Museum, Albany, NY 12203; and Dr. Alexander Bartholomew, Department of Geology, State University of New York-New Paltz, New Paltz, NY 12561

Ring of Fire’ in Ancient New York: Volcanic Edifice at Stark’s Knob, submitted by Dr. Ed Landing, New York State Paleontologist, emeritus, New York State Museum, Albany, NY 12203; and Dr. Alexander Bartholomew, Department of Geology, State University of New York-New Paltz, New Paltz, NY 12561

Exploring Opportunities

Rising from the Plains project, submitted by Carol Frost, University of Wyoming

Kentucky Rock Fences, submitted by Sarah Mardon, Kentucky Geological Survey

Other Resources

Session Conveners

Renee M. Clary, Mississippi State University, rclary@geosci.msstate.edu

William Andrews, Kentucky Geological Survey, wandrews@uky.edu

David Mogk, Montana State University, mogk@montana.edu

Steven Semken, Arizona State University, semken@asu.edu

Session Endorsers

GSA History and Philosophy of Geology Division; GSA Geology and Health Division; GSA Geology and Society Division; GSA Geoscience Education Division; Association of American State Geologists; History of Earth Sciences Society; National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT); GSA Soils and Soil Processes Division; GSA Marine and Coastal Geosciences Division; GSA Limnogeology Division

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Pardee sessions are named in honor of GSA Fellow and benefactor Joseph Thomas Pardee (1871–1960) via a bequest from Mary Pardee Kelly. Pardee is perhaps best known for his work on Glacial Lake Missoula.