Hey all, Please consider submitting an abstract to technical session *T134 *at the GSA Connects 2023 meeting in Pittsburgh, *Making Meaning from Geologic Observations: Data-Driven Interpretive and Analysis Methods in Geosciences*. We're quite excited about this session, which aims to bring together work from across disciplines on quantitative analysis and interpretation of geoscience datasets. Wanted to share this here as so many of the MSA list members are doing work that would be great to have represented in this session! *Session rationale:* In a wide range of diverse geoscience fields, new analytical and computational technologies have led to a rapidly accelerating proliferation of data. These datasets permit new quantitative insights into Earth and planetary processes, but challenges remain for data handling and statistical interpretation. Key issues include the development of appropriate and necessary cyberinfrastructure, growing a geoinformatics community, assessing the significance of observations, the relationship of data/observations to process, and how geologic signals can be biased or degraded. Several common themes are evident in data analysis across geoscience fields, including: estimating uncertainty, understanding spatial and temporal variation in datasets, determining the appropriate scale and extent of observation, and assessing how representative datasets are of the rock record. Because of the overlap in goals and ongoing need for new approaches, we aim to convene a session that highlights novel approaches across the geosciences and seeds interdisciplinary communication useful to advancing community data analysis, geoinformatics, and cyberinfrastructure. *Invited Speakers: *Lucia Profeta (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory), Daven Quinn (University of Wisconsin Madison) Conveners: Alex Tye (Utah Tech University) and Snir Attia (New Mexico Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources) The GSA Connects 2023 meeting will be Oct. 15-18, 2023 in Pittsburgh, PA. Abstract submission is currently open and the deadline for submission is July 25, 2023. Please forward to anyone you think would be interested and reach out to us if you have any questions. For more information, see the meeting website: https://community.geosociety.org/gsa2023/home. To submit an abstract to this session: https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2023AM/top/papers/index.cgi?sessionid=54795. We hope you will consider submitting to the session and look forward to learning about all the great science that's being done out there! Best regards, Snir and Alex Snir Attia Field Geologist New Mexico Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources New Mexico Tech 801 Leroy Place Socorro, NM 87801 (575) 835-5290 snir.attia@nmt.edu