Time is running out! ⏳ The deadline to submit your proposals for Connects 2025 technical sessions, field trips, and short courses is 31 January 2025, 11:59 p.m. PST.
Don’t miss this opportunity to shape the program, share groundbreaking ideas, and connect with professionals in geoscience. Submit your proposal today at 🔗https://community.geosociety.org/gsa2025/program/proposals!
Connects 2025 Themes:
Energy and Resource Innovations in the 21st Century: As we navigate an era marked by rapid technological advancements and pressing environmental challenges, this theme underscores the critical role of geosciences in pioneering sustainable solutions. The 21st century demands innovative approaches to harnessing energy and managing resources, from developing cleaner, renewable energy sources to optimizing the extraction and utilization of critical minerals.
Geology without Borders: This theme highlights the inherently global nature of geological sciences and emphasizes the importance of international collaboration in addressing earth science challenges. By transcending geographical, political, and disciplinary boundaries, geologists can foster a deeper understanding of our planet's processes, from plate tectonics to climate change. Cross-border cooperation is vital to tackling global issues such as natural resource management, environmental sustainability, and disaster mitigation.
From Earth to the Cosmos: Geoscience Beyond Our Planet: This theme invites exploration of planetary geoscience in its full scope, bridging terrestrial geology with the study of solid, icy, and gaseous bodies across the solar system and extending to exoplanets. Planetary science covers impacts, volcanism and tectonism, atmospheric, sedimentary, and hydrologic processes, regolith formation, potential biosignatures and habitability. New frontiers include materials for In Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU), such as ice and critical minerals, which are crucial for supporting future human habitation on other worlds. Through this expanded lens, geoscientists can explore not only Earth's unique attributes but also the geological and material diversity across our solar system, contributing to advancements in both science of planetary environments and commercial space exploration.