Pete attended the 2017 GSA annual meeting in Seattle in late October and had a busy week. These were a few of the highlights:
On Sunday 10/22, Pete delivered a talk on debris-covered glaciers of Mount Rainier in a session that was all about scientific advances at Rainier. Park geologist Scott Beason, one of the session conveners, maintains a website about the geology of Mount Rainier National Park, and has posted a pdf of Pete's slides here. This talk summarized Pete's work in 2014 with former ISU grad student Theresa (Dits) Groth and Carleton College Geology grad Leah Nelson, among others.
Later the same day and again on Monday, Pete took part in the festivities surrounding Neal Iverson's Day Medal honors, including having Pete's citation read (pre-recorded by a professional emcee) at the awards ceremony mid-day Sunday, and introducing Neal's afternoon talk on Monday.
On Wednesday afternoon, Pete delivered a talk about changes in the floodplain inundation frequency accompanying channel evolution at Walnut Creek, Jasper County, IA. Billy Beck was lead author on the abstract but was otherwise occupied (tri-societies meeting in Tampa), so Pete gave the talk in a session on river sediment budgets.
All in all, a good experience!