Program
Short Courses
Professional Development

Short Courses

Learn a new topic. Build your skills. Enhance your professional development with short courses. Led by experts, these sessions offer practical training across a wide range of geoscience topics.

Add courses when you register. Not attending the meeting? Book separately through the GSA Store.

Featured Courses

Plan now to take advantage of these cutting-edge courses as part of your GSA Connects 2025 experience. Explore the full course list below.

GeoGPT: AI Research Platform

Discover how AI is transforming geoscience research. Come ready to learn, collaborate, and imagine the future of AI-enhanced geoscience.

Plate Tectonics for Science and Teaching

In both English and Spanish, learn how to visualize and analyze Earth’s plate tectonic history for both science and teaching using free GPlates software.

Interactive Data Dashboards

Unlock the power of data visualization tools like Tableau, PowerBI, and Spotfire in this course, which bridges the gap between spreadsheets and coding.

Building a Culture of Access

Explore challenges and opportunities facing geoscientists with disabilities in the workplace, hear from experts, and brainstorm ideas to improve accessibility and inclusion.

Sandstone Potential

Gain an awareness that sedimentary petrology and petrography have value in interpreting, assessing and predicting porous and permeable sandstones resource and storage potential.

Talking Science

Communicating is a vital skill as a scientist. Practice distilling your work into fun, digestible conversations about geoscience.

Program

Geology in the Classroom

Learn and grow professionally with GSA Connects 2025 short courses. Join experts for focused learning experiences on relevant topics.

For information regarding course logistics and specifics, please contact the course organizer directly. Email address can be found within the course descriptions.

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CEUs

Professional Development

Short courses offer both professional development hours (PDHs) and continuing education units (CEUs). 10 PDHs are credited for one CEU. One CEU equals 10 hours of participation in an organized continuing education experience under responsible sponsorship, capable direction, and qualified instruction.

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Contact

Have questions about registering for short courses, logistics, or something else?

Rebecca Taormina

Manager of Strategic Program Development

rtaormina@geosociety.org
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