A few of us from Virginia Tech Sedimentary Systems Research group will be attending and presenting at the 2013 American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco in a few weeks. Here’s a run-down of our activities:

Monday (morning):

• Ph.D. student Cody Mason will be presenting a poster on a project he’s working on with VT faculty Jim Spotila. The session  (T11D) is titled The Pacific-North America plate boundary through time: Translation, rotation, erosion, and 4-D strain and Cody’s poster is: Kinematic history of the southern Santa Rosa Mountains using U-Th/He thermochronometry of apatite: An uplifted and tilted block in a dominantly transpressional tectonic regime.

Thursday (afternoon):

• M.S. student Patrick Boyle is presenting his poster Cenozoic variations in the Deep Western Boundary Current as recorded in the seismic stratigraphy of contourite drifts: IODP Expedition 342, Newfoundland Ridge, offshore Canada in Session PP43A
• I will be presenting a poster in Session EP43D titled Building a bridge to deep time: Sedimentary systems across timescales, which is a preview of sorts of a review paper in the works with several collaborators.

Friday (morning):

• I’m co-chairing (along with Joris Eggenhuisen and Gary Parker) oral session OS52A titled Sediment transport by turbidity currents: Simulation and observations. This session starts at 10:20am in Moscone West 3009.

Friday (afternoon):

• The morning oral session on turbidity currents I’m chairing has a companion poster session (OS53B) in the afternoon.

Looking forward to interacting with our friends and colleagues during the meeting. See you in San Francisco!