The Blue Bear at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, location of this year's GSA Annual Meeting. The bear always seems so desperate to get in. Image: Jeff Turner / Flickr. So, I'm off to Denver tomorrow for the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting. This meeting, along with the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, are the two largest gatherings of geologists in North America and are always full of exciting (and sometimes controversial) research. I'll be trying to post updates while I'm at the meeting, but time is always at a premium, so be sure to check out my Twitter feed (@eruptionsblog) to see my tweets about any talks or posters that are volcanologically fascinating. As a bit of a preview, here are a few of the sessions where you might find me during the course of the GSA Annual Meeting: Sunday