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GSW 1539: mass extinctions, life of a plate, Greenland as moon analogue

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2019
MEETING 1539

Peter Brannen, journalist and author
Earth’s Great Mass Extinctions, Past and Future

Helen Janiszewski, Carnegie Institution
The Birth and Death of a Plate:
What Offshore Instrumentation Teaches Us About Subduction Zones

Angela G Marusiak, University of Maryland
Exploring Icy Moons:
How Greenland can help us Understand Ice Covered Worlds

TALKS WILL BE 20 MINUTES w/ QUESTIONS TO FOLLOW

Meeting flyer to print & post at your institution – help spread the word!

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Free & open to the public
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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Draft minutes of the 1538th meeting for review

Posted on January 27, 2019 by | Comments Off on Draft minutes of the 1538th meeting for review

Members! Your keen eyes are needed to review these draft minutes from the January 23rd meeting. There’s at least one speaker who needs to be identified – Can you be the one to track this mysterious person down?

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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Draft minutes of meeting 1537 for review

Posted on January 10, 2019 by | Comments Off on Draft minutes of meeting 1537 for review

Members, please run a critical eye over these draft meeting minutes from the Jan. 9 meeting. 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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GSW 1538: stromatolites, space lasers, and lava dome collapse

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 2019
MEETING 1538

Erica Suosaari, Smithsonian Institution
Hamelin Pool, Shark Bay, Western Australia: A Microbial Carbonate Factory

June Wicks, Johns Hopkins University 
Planetary Exploration in the Age of Big Lasers

Janine Krippner, Concord University
Exceptionally Large Lava Dome Collapse Events and Block-and-Ash Flows: Hot and Fast Avalanches of Destruction

TALKS WILL BE 20 MINUTES w/ QUESTIONS TO FOLLOW

Meeting flyer to print and post – Help spread the word!

__________________________________
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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Draft minutes of the 1536th meeting for review

Posted on January 7, 2019 by | Comments Off on Draft minutes of the 1536th meeting for review

Members, please review (and fill in the missing information) in this draft of the minutes from our December meeting:

1536th Meeting of GSW Minutes (Draft)

Send corrections to Victor Zabielski at vzabielski@nvcc.edu. Thanks!

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