Monthly Archives: January 2020

GSW 1550: Polar geotherms, coastal salinization, & solar soil

The Geological Society of Washington
founded 1893

WEDNESDAY, February 12, 2020

MEETING # 1550

Yasmina Martos, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Revealing geothermal heat flux in Earth’s polar regions – geodynamic evolution and impact on ice sheet dynamics

Chelsea Peters, University of Delaware 
Groundwater pumping and salinization risks in coastal aquifers

Kate Burgess, U.S. Naval Research Lab
Bits of the sun in my microscope: Finding preserved solar wind in space weathered lunar soil

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

GSW meeting 1548: Draft minutes for review

Here are the draft minutes from the 1548th meeting (the 2019 Presidential address). Please review them and send any corrections or additions to 2020 Meeting Secretary Beth Doyle via email. Thank you for your attention to this important task.

GSW 1549: shockwaves, field camp, & Patagonia

WEDNESDAY, January 22, 2020
MEETING #1549

SALLY JUNE TRACY, Carnegie Institution for Science
Experimental shockwave studies of geological materials

STEVEN WHITMEYER, James Madison University
Geoscience Field Education in the 21st Century: Accessible and
Multidisciplinary

RYAN SINCAVAGE, Radford University
The geologist’s sandbox: Surface process and climate signals in
the sediments of an alpine basin on the Northern Patagonian Ice
Field, Chile

meeting flyer to print & post at your institution

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