Monthly Archives: September 2025

Wed. Oct 1: GSW Meeting at the Cosmos Club

Theme of the event: Geomorphology

MONG-HAN HUANG, University of Maryland, College Park – A Novel Bayesian Near-Surface Geophysics Approach to Constrain Material Properties and their Links to Natural Hazards in Central Puerto Rico

KARIN LEHNIGK, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center – The Kakhovka Dam Break Flood: An Unprecedented View of Earth’s Most Powerful Floods

CALEB FASSETT, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab – Geomorphic Evolution of the Moon

Refreshments at 7:30 p.m., formal program at 8:00 p.m., John Wesley Powell Auditorium, 2170 Florida Avenue NW, Washington D.C.

If anyone has announcements or informal communications they would like to share with the society, please e-mail Vedran Lekic (ved@umd.edu) ahead of time.

Draft minutes from Sept 10th meeting (1612th GSW)

The draft minutes of our last meeting, on 10 September 2025, are attached for members to evaluate. If you have any additions or corrections please email them to our meeting secretary, Jessie Bersson, at BerssonJ[at]si.edu.

Wed., Sept. 10 – GSW Meeting at Cosmos Club

Theme of the event: Volatiles

COLIN JACKSON, Tulane University and AAAS STP Fellow at DOE – Experimental magma oceans and volatile depletion of rocky worlds

KATHLEEN MANDT, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center – How volatile composition can reveal the sources of water on the Earth and Moon

PATRICK BEAUDRY, Johns Hopkins University – The volatile redox budget of slab fluids and oxidation of the mantle wedge

Refreshments at 7:30 p.m., formal program at 8:00 p.m., John Wesley Powell Auditorium, 2170 Florida Avenue NW, Washington D.C.

If anyone has announcements or informal communications they would like to share with the society, please e-mail Vedran Lekic (ved@umd.edu) ahead of time.