Members of the Society,
Please take 3.1 minutes to read through this draft set of minutes from our Sept. 11 meeting, and email any omissions or corrections or additions to Meeting Secretary Megan Holycross at holycrossm@si.edu.
Thanks for your attention to this brief but important process.
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The Geological Society of Washington
founded 1893
WEDNESDAY, October 2, 2019
MEETING # 1545
DALIA KIRSCHBAUM, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Finding the Slippery Slope: Opportunities to Investigate Landslides from Space
MONG-HAN HUANG, University of Maryland
Monitoring seasonal slow-moving landslide and hazard in Aizawl, India from space
TAMARA CARLEY, Lafayette College
Investigating proto-continental crust construction using very young (Icelandic) and very old (Hadean) zircon
TALKS WILL BE 20 MINUTES w/ QUESTIONS TO FOLLOW
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Refreshments at 7:30 p.m. Formal program at 8:00 p.m.
John Wesley Powell Auditorium
2170 Florida Avenue NW, Washington, DC
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At our most recent meeting, Ester Sztein noted two funding opportunities for young geoscientists who are keen to travel to Delhi for the 36th International Geological Congress next year.
Please share with those who are eligible.
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This post describes a job opportunity that may be of interest to members of the GSW community:
Contractor shall provide professional, technical, non-personal services to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, Department of Mineral Sciences, Division of Petrology and Volcanology, National Rock and Ore Collections. Contractor will organize, catalog and capture specimen data for one half of the research collections of Dr. David Clague, a gift from the Monterey Bay Aquatic Research Institute (MBARI). The collection currently resides in 138 drawers at MSC, and consists of approximately 3860 specimen lots of volcanic submarine rock samples collected either as dredge samples or dive samples from Hawaii, the Hawaiian Ridge and Emperor Seamounts, Juan de Fuca Ridge, Gorda Ridge, Blanco Facture Zone, California Seamounts, Iceland, Reunion Island, Socorro Island, and the Gulf of Alaska, and includes not only hand samples but grain mounts, thin sections, and other associated preparations. The work to complete 69 drawers (the first half of the collection) is estimated to take 10 months to complete.
Desirable qualifications include:
The work will take place at the Museum Support Center in Suitland, Maryland. The contractor will have access to the facility between the hours of 8:00am and 5:00pm, Monday through Friday. The contract will require an estimated 10 months of work, and the period of the contract shall not exceed one year. Liability insurance through the Smithsonian Institution is required.
A copy of this announcement, including the Request For Quote, Statement Of Work, and any updates related to the announcement, is available at https://naturalhistory.si.edu/research/mineral-sciences/opportunities. To apply for this contract, please send your bid, along with a cover letter, resume/CV, and contact information for two references, to Leslie Hale (halel@si.edu) before September 30, 2019.
The Smithsonian Institution is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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The Geological Society of Washington
founded 1893
WEDNESDAY, September 11, 2019
MEETING # 1544
Deborah Green, Richard H. Jahns Distinguished Lecturer in Applied Geology
You Don’t Look Like a Geologist –
Why are the Geosciences the Least Diverse of the STEM Fields?
Laura Szymanski, Geological Society of America
Funding to Fly High: How the appropriation process works for NASA projects
Scott Wieman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Light stable isotope research in support of ongoing and future NASA flight missions
Help spread the word: Print and display this meeting flyer at your institution.
TALKS WILL BE 20 MINUTES w/ QUESTIONS TO FOLLOW
Refreshments at 7:30 p.m. Formal program at 8:00 p.m.
John Wesley Powell Auditorium
2170 Florida Avenue NW, Washington, DC
www.gswweb.org
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Greetings GSW members! Your keen eyes are needed to review these draft minutes from the 1543rd meeting. There’s at least one missing last name in there – help us fill it in! Please send corrections or additions to Meeting Secretary Megan Holycross at holycrossm@si.edu. Thanks in advance for giving this a few moments of your attention.
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The Geological Society of Washington
founded 1893
WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 2019
MEETING 1543
GABRIELA FARFAN
Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History
“A mineral perspective on coral skeletons in a changing ocean”
EMILY MARTIN
Smithsonian Institution’s National Air & Space Museum
“Holes in the ground are cool: Using pit chains in Iceland to
measure snow on Saturn’s moon Enceladus”
MATTHEW T. CARRANO
Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History
“Challenges and benefits of using vertebrate microfossil bonebeds
for understanding terrestrial paleoecosystems”
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Meeting flyer to print and post – Help spread the word!
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Refreshments at 7:30 p.m. Formal program at 8:00 p.m.
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Hi everyone,
I welcome your participation in a field trip I’m running Saturday, May 11, to Corridor H, West Virginia, for the “Royal Rockhounds” of Front Royal. Corridor H is a highway that cuts through the folded and faulted Paleozoic sedimentary rocks of the Valley & Ridge geological province. It’s an excellent place to see primary sedimentary structures, fossils, unconformities, contacts, and anticlines & synclines. If you’re available and interested, we’re going to meet up at 9am sharp at the McDonald’s + Exxon in Strasburg, VA on route 11, real close to I-81:
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.005957,-78.3390373,180m/data=!3m1!1e3
This is not an official GSW trip, but it’s open to all. If you think you’re going to do this, please let me know (cbentley@nvcc.edu), so I know whether to look for you there on that morning. It’ll conclude mid-to-late afternoon.
Also, as mentioned at the last meeting, on June 1, Caitlin Chazen, Marla Morales, and I will be running a “field workshop” (a field trip about field trips) in Rock Creek Park, DC, using DC’s bedrock geology as a platform to discuss how geoscience instructors can most effectively run field trips. This trip is intended for geoscience educators at the high school, college, or university level. It’s free, and lunch is provided, but advance registration is required. More information is online at:
https://serc.carleton.edu/sage2yc/teams/dc_metro/workshop18-19/index.html
-Callan Bentley
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Greetings GSW members! Your keen eyes are needed to review these draft minutes from the 1542nd meeting. Please send corrections or additions to Meeting Secretary Megan Holycross at holycrossm@si.edu. Thanks in advance for giving this a few moments of your attention.
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Members of the Society!
Draft minutes of our recent meeting (Sept. 11) are available for your review and critique: https://t.co/FlwHkuF0sb
MANY THANKS for a few moments of your attention to this critical (and easy!) task.
The next GSW will be a /moving/ experience... https://t.co/cOMJy4lkg5
Opportunities for travel funding to attend @igc_36 in Delhi, India, next March: https://t.co/ffG5DJOwKz
