2024 Virtual AGeS Community Symposium

Tuesday May 7, 2024

The 2024 symposium consisted of two sessions with invited talks, AGeS updates, and short AGeS project presentations, as well as two breakout sessions to enable discussion and feedback on Community Needs and interaction between AGeS-Grad awardees and future program applicants.

Session 1: AGeS Updates and Geochronology Community Activities (Moderator: Bella Bennett)

• Welcome, Goals, Overview - Becky Flowers (CU-Boulder) and Ramon Arrowsmith (ASU)

• “AGeS3: Updates and Looking Forward to the AGeS-TRaCE Micro-award Program” - Becky Flowers (CU-Boulder)

• “A National Geochronology Consortium?” - Blair Schoene (Princeton)
• “Streamlining Geochronological Data Management, Access, and Preservation through IEDA2 (EarthChem/SESAR) Systems” - Lucia Profeta (LDEO-Columbia)
• 5x5 min lightning talks on AGeS-Grad awardee projects
  • Samantha Dunn (Cal State Fullerton) - 2023 awardee Haley Thoreson (University of Idaho) - 2021 awardee
  • Zena Robert (Montana State University) - 2023 awardee
  • Jonathan Anaya (New Mexico Tech) - 2023 awardee
  • Bailey Nordin (Dartmouth) - 2024 awardee
• Breakout Sessions:
  • Breakout 1: Community Needs
  • Breakout 2: Graduate Students and the AGeS-Grad Program

Session 2: Geochronology Advances (Moderator: Mauricio Ibanez-Mejia)

• "Reflections on Developing and Leading an AGeS-DiG Funded Summer Research Program” - Bella Bennett (Univ Vermont)

• “Beyond the Chron: How Rethinking the Physics behind Luminescence Dating Leads to New Tools for Sediment Tracing and Provenance" - Harrison Gray (USGS)

• "Combining Laser Ablation with Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry for High Spatial Resolution Petrochronology" - John Cottle (University of California Santa Barbara)
• “Merging Stratigraphy and Dates - An Introduction to Bayesian Age-Depth Modeling in Deep Time” Robin Trayler (University of California Merced)