The 2009 annual meeting is in Portland, Oregon, Oct. 18-21.

See GSA website, http://www.geosociety.org/meetings/2009/
Abstracts are due Aug 11.

The Coal Division has suggested two topical sessions. Your abstract submittals will help to make these sessions a success.

T151. Clean Coal: Can it be a Reality?
GSA Coal Geology Division; GSA Engineering Geology Division; GSA Geology and Society Division; GSA Geology and Health Division
Leslie Ruppert, Allan Kolker, Sean Brennan

This session examines what it will take to make "clean coal" a reality and what would happen if we cannot. Topics include science and technology of carbon capture, geologic sequestration, and partial capture environmental consequences.

T152. Frontiers in Coal Science: From Basic Research to Applied Technology
GSA Coal Geology Division; GSA Sedimentary Geology Division; GSA Geology and Health Division
R.M. Flores, Maria Mastalerz

This session highlights recent advances in basic research on coal geology including petrology, geochemistry, and sedimentology. Also, advances in applied technology on coal utilization, environmental issues of combustion, coalbed methane, and CO2 sequestration in coal.

More information about the topical sessions, business meeting, and other activities at the annual meeting will follow after the abstracts deadline.

 

 

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