• Scientific Sessions
• MSA Awards Lunch
• MSA Awardee Lecture
• MSA Roebling Medalist Lecture
• MSA Presidential Address
• MSA Annual Business Meeting
• Joint MSA and Geochemical Society Reception
• MSA Booth in the Exhibit Hall where you can meet the editors of the American Mineralogist and the staff from the Business Office.

Individuals and geoscience organizations may propose technical sessions for the GSA meetings. Descriptions about the types of sessions that can be proposed, instructions, and online proposal submission can be reached through http://www.geosociety.org/meetings/. The deadline for submitting a proposal is usually very early January of the year in which the meeting will be held.

GSA encourages sponsorship of technical sessions by GSA Divisions, as well as its Associated and Affiliated Socities. MSA is an Associated Society of GSA. If you want MSA sponsorship for your session, copy the proposal you will be submitting to GSA by early December to one or both MSA representatives to the GSA Joint Technical Program Committee (Jim Beard jim.beard@vmnh.virginia.gov and Phil Brown pbrown@geology.wisc.edu for approval.

This is a joint meeting between The Geological Society of America (GSA), Soil Science Society of America (SSSA), American Society of Agronomy (ASA), Crop Science Society of America (CSSA), and the Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies with the Gulf Coast Section of SEPM (GCAGS), hosted by the Houston Geological Society (HGS).

• 2009 Portland, Oregon - 18-21 October 2009
• 2010 Denver, Colorado - 31 October - 3 November 2010
• 2011 Minneapolis, Minnesota - 9-12 October 2011