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Feb 7th – GSW meeting will be at the Cosmos Club

It is an IN-PERSON meeting only. We will begin with a talk by Brandon Graham (USGS) on ‘In situ 10Be modeling and terrain analysis constrain subglacial quarrying and abrasion rates at Sermeq Kujalleq (Jakobshavn Isbræ), Greenland’. Next up will be Paul Hackley (USGS) on ‘Organic Petrology at USGS in the 21st Century’. The final talk of the evening will be presented by Ross Salerno (USGS) on ‘The age of dome-and-keel structures in the Pilbara Craton’. Abstracts of the talks, and biographies of the speakers, are here. Come at 7:30 PM to socialize and imbibe, the meeting begins at 8 PM, and ends by 10 PM.

Jan 24th – GSW meeting will be at the Cosmos Club

It is an IN-PERSON meeting only. We will begin with a talk by Sarah Hall (AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow) on ‘(Un)Well stories: Private well water quality in coastal Maine’. Next up will be Bonnie McDevitt (USGS) on ‘Radium mineral associations within abandoned mine drainage relevant to the future of critical mineral extraction’. The final talk of the evening will be presented by Rebecca Stokes (USGS) on ‘The role of graphite in a changing energy landscape: a geological perspective’. Abstracts of the talks, and biographies of the speakers, are here. Come at 7:30 PM to socialize and imbibe, the meeting begins at 8 PM, and ends by 10 PM.

GSW 1555 minutes – draft for members to evaluate

GSW 1555 Draft Minutes (Word Doc)

Please take a look and see if you would recommend any corrections or additions. If so, please send those ideas to Meeting Secretary Beth Doyle at edoyle@nvcc.edu.

GSW 1554 minutes – draft for members to evaluate

https://gswweb.org/new/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/1554th-Meeting-of-GSW-Minutes-Draft.docx

Please take a look and see if you would recommend any corrections or additions. If so, please send those ideas to Meeting Secretary Beth Doyle at edoyle@nvcc.edu.

GSW 1555: deltas, soil, & Chinese dinosaurs

WEDNESDAY, May 13, 2020
MEETING # 1555

***Meeting to be held virtually via Zoom***
Note that the meeting will be “locked” (no admittance) once the
formal program begins.

JAMES CLARK, The George Washington University
Dinosaur Hunting in China

ROBERT MAHON, The University of New Orleans
Universality of delta channel bifurcation angles

ASMERET ASEFAW BERHE, University of California, Merced
What’s soil got to do with climate change?

TALKS WILL BE 20 MINUTES w/ QUESTIONS TO FOLLOW
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Zoom link active at 7:30 p.m. EDT for socializing
Formal program at 8:00 p.m. EDT

Meeting flyer to print out and post in your living room.

Virtual GSW 1554: slate of speakers

WEDNESDAY, April 29, 2020
MEETING # 1554

***Note: meeting to be held virtually via Zoom; link will be shared with members via email***

STEPHANIE SPERA, University of Richmond
Sacrifice Zone or Sustainable Agricultural Powerhouse: The
Brazilian Cerrado

AARON VELASCO, The University of Texas at El Paso
Developing Strong International Partnerships for Geoscience
Advances and Capacity Building

CHARLES BACON, U.S. Geological Survey
Lidar imaging of Mazama eruption deposits and postglacial fault
scarps at Crater Lake National Park, Oregon

TALKS WILL BE 20 MINUTES w/ QUESTIONS TO FOLLOW
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Formal program at 8:00 p.m. EDT; informal socializing starts at 7:30pm

***Meeting will be held virtually via Zoom; link will be shared with members via email***

Draft minutes from the 1553rd meeting (via Zoom) for members to review

Draft minutes from the 1553rd meeting of the Society are here.

Please take a look and see if you would recommend any corrections or additions. If so, please send those ideas to Meeting Secretary Beth Doyle at edoyle@nvcc.edu.

AGU location survey

Dear GSW members,

I hope you and yours are faring well in these difficult times.

As you know, our next GSW meeting (on March 25) is a virtual meeting using Zoom technology.

Here is a link to a short survey about the March 11 GSW meeting we held at AGU headquarters: https://forms.gle/6ANPt7eC9g2rbiCW8

To complete this short survey you will need to provide your email address, but rest assured that your answer will be completely anonymized before GSW officers see the aggregate answers. Please respond by March 27.

Thank you, and hope to see you virtually on March 25!

Ester Sztein, PhD
President,
Geological Society of Washington

Draft minutes from the 1552nd meeting (at AGU) for members to review

Please take a look at these draft minutes and send any corrections/additions to meeting secretary Beth Doyle at edoyle@nvcc.edu.

 

GSW virtual meeting : La Brea, Faux Folds, and atmospheric radiation

The Geological Society of Washington
founded 1893, never online until 2020

WEDNESDAY, March 25, 2020
MEETING # 1553

***Note meeting to be held virtually via Zoom***

GRAHAM ANDREWS, West Virginia University
The Fold Illusion

DAVID CHU, Los Alamos National Lab
DOE Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program: the MOSAiC Expedition

ALEXIS MYCHAJLIW, La Brea Tar Pits & Museum
“Tar pit” time capsules: reconstructing Trinidad’s Late Pleistocene ecosystems with fossils trapped in asphalt

TALKS WILL BE 20 MINUTES w/ QUESTIONS TO FOLLOW

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Formal program at 8:00 p.m. EDT, show up with a drink of your choice at 7:30pm if you’re keen on socializing beforehand.

***Meeting will be held virtually via Zoom using the link below***
https://vccs.zoom.us/j/881922420

www.gswweb.org