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Great Lakes Geologic Mapping Coalition
Annual Science Meeting
January 11-13, 2010
Indianapolis, Indiana

Where:  Holiday Inn - North at the Pyramids
3850 DePauw Blvd.
Indianapolis, IN  46268
Hotel:  317.872.9790
Group:  USGS Great Lakes Coalition

AGENDA

Monday
Business Meeting  
   
1:00
Technical Team Business Meeting        Jim McNeal
(States of IL, IN, MI, MN, NY, OH, PA, WI, and USGS)         
   
Tuesday
Recent Progress & 3D Geologic Mapping  
   
8:00
Put Up Posters  
8:30
Welcome, Introductions, and Purpose   Jim McNeal
8:45
U.S. Geological Survey   Kevin Kincare
9:00
Wisconsin Geological Survey Eric Carson
9:15
Pennsylvania Geological Survey Gary Fleeger
9:30
Ohio Geological Survey Mike Angle
9:45
Break  
10:15
New York Geological Survey  Andy Kozlowski
10:30
Minnesota Geological Survey Harvey Thorleifson
10:45
Michigan Geological Survey John Esch
11:00
Indiana Geological Survey  Mike Prentice
11:15
Illinois State Geological Survey Mike Barnhardt, Jason Thomason,
  Andy Stumpf
11:30
Lunch  
1:00
3-D Visualization and GeoVisionary Don Keefer, Steve Brown -- ISGS
  Andy O’Keeffe – Virtalis,Ltd.
2:20
3-D Geologic Mapping and GSI3D at the BGS   Steve Mathers – BGS
3:15
Break  
3:45
3-D Geologic Mapping and Visualization in the Coalition – discussion – Leads:  Don Keefer, Steve Mathers, Andy O’Keeffe All
4:30
Geologic Maps (posted on the wall)                  Group Poster Session
5:30
Break  
   
Wednesday, Jan. 13    
   
8:30
US Topo – the new topographic maps of the USGS  Dave Nail – USGS
8:50
USGS Lidar  Dave Nail – USGS
9:10
Lidar examples from Ohio Erik Venteris – Ohio
9:20
Landforms and landscapes in Lake County Steve Brown – Illinois
9:30
Landforms and landscapes in Champaign County Andy Stumpf – Illinois
9:40
All Lidar is Not Created Equal Don Luman – Illinois
9:50
Lidar and periglacial features – Delmarva  Kevin Kincare – USGS
10:00
Lidar – Michigan John Esch – Michigan
10:10
Bathymetric Lidar – some examples Jim McNeal – USGS
10:20
Lidar use in Geologic Mapping - Discussion  All
10:30
Break  
10:45
Data Requirements:  Impacts of Scale and Complexity - discussion - Lead:  Don Keefer All
12:15
Wrap-up Jim McNeal

 

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