Our council secretary, Beth Doyle, has kindly provided a draft of the December 6 annual business meeting which is available here. The Awards committee presented the Bradley Prize for the best formal scientific talk to Anna K Behrensmeyer (Smithsonian) for her talk on Nov 8 entitled What is Taphonomy, and why does it matter? The prize for the second-best formal talk went to Shoshana Weider (NASA Hq) for her talk on Oct 4 entitled Mercury Exploration: Past, Present and Future. The Great Dane Award for the best informal communication to the GSW of timely or newsworthy events went to Tammy Bravo (Earthscope) for her update on the destructive magnitude 7.9 earthquake in Turkey. The Sleeping Bear Award for genuine good humor at meetings went to Hmong-Han Huang and Ved Lekic, both at the Univ of Maryland. Honorable mentions went to James (Jim) Head (Brown Univ) and Graham Lederer (USGS). The Meeting Secretary’s report by Graham Lederer announced that Michael Purucker took the honors as Grand Inquisitor, narrowly beating out Larry Meinert.
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This little dinosaur is no bigger than a bird, so its widely spaced footprints were quite puzzling.
@umdgeology's Tom Holtz helped recreate this raptor's movements millions of years later, shedding new light on the origin of flight. http://go.umd.edu/d-rarusCalcite & Pyrite, Hunan, China #MineralMonday
This lava-dome complex of Guatemala's Santa María volcano has been actively erupting since 1922.
😎#unconformity in southern Portugal🇵🇹
Have you ever seen a fish inside an ammonite shell? Now you have. #FossilFriday
This Jurassic specimen comes from Holzmaden and is on display at the Hauff Museum. I featured a similar fossil in my book, "LOCKED IN TIME", of tiny fish trapped inside giant clams.