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GSW 1552 at AGU HQ: Martian fans, wet meteorites, and forensic petrology

WEDNESDAY, March 11, 2020
MEETING # 1552

***Note alternate location***

Alexander Morgan, SI National Air and Space Museum
Large alluvial fans on Mars: insights from remote sensing observations and field analogue studies

Kei Shimizu, Carnegie Institution of Science
Water in meteorites: a snapshot of water in the early Solar System

Daniel Rasmussen, SI National Museum of Natural History
The run-up to volcanic eruptions unveiled by forensic petrology

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.

***American Geophysical Union Headquarters***
2000 Florida Avenue NW, Washington, DC

Our next meeting in a new location, the American Geophysical Union’s headquarters at 2000 Florida Ave., NW, Washington,DC 20009. If you would like to participate in the 7pm tour of AGU’s newly-renovated LEEDS-certified, net-zero building, you must sign up in advance, with this Google form.

If you only plan to attend the 8pm meeting, then you do not need to sign up.

AGU is located at 2000 Florida Ave, N.W. AGU strongly encourages the use of public transportation and ride sharing/carpooling. The nearest metro stop is Dupont Circle, on the Red Line; we are just about 3 blocks north of the station. The most convenient parking garage is located in the Universal Building and is accessible from two points: (1) Universal North, accessed from T Street, NW, across from the side entrance of the Hilton Washington, and (2) Universal South, accessed from Florida Avenue, NW, across from the front entrance of AGU. (best access for evening activities). There is some street parking for those who are resourceful; most is metered and/or has residential restrictions. Attached is a map showing the metro & parking locations.

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Meeting flyer to print and post at  your institution.

Draft minutes from the Feb. 26 meeting for review

Here are draft minutes from the 1551st meeting for members to please review. Send any corrections or names that fill in some of the blanks to GSW Meeting Secretary Beth Doyle at edoyle@nvcc.edu, please. Thanks.

Next GSW meeting will be at AGU headquarters

We will have our next meeting in a new location, the American Geophysical Union’s headquarters at 2000 Florida Ave., NW, Washington,DC 20009. If you would like to participate in the 7pm tour of AGU’s newly-renovated LEEDS-certified, net-zero building, you must sign up in advance, with this Google form.

If you only plan to attend the 8pm meeting, then you do not need to sign up.

AGU is located at 2000 Florida Ave, N.W. AGU strongly encourages the use of public transportation and ride sharing/carpooling. The nearest metro stop is Dupont Circle, on the Red Line; we are just about 3 blocks north of the station. The most convenient parking garage is located in the Universal Building and is accessible from two points: (1) Universal North, accessed from T Street, NW, across from the side entrance of the Hilton Washington, and (2) Universal South, accessed from Florida Avenue, NW, across from the front entrance of AGU. (best access for evening activities). There is some street parking for those who are resourceful; most is metered and/or has residential restrictions. Attached is a map showing the metro & parking locations.

GSW 1551: Indian fossil hunting, Volcanic CO2, & Funding Antarctic geoscience

GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON

Meeting Number 1551

John Wesley Powell Auditorium, Cosmos Club, 2170 Florida Ave NW Washington, DC

Wednesday, February 26, 2020; Refreshments 7:30 pm; Meeting 8:00 pm

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ADVAIT JUKAR, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History – Nineteenth century fossil hunting in the Indian Subcontinent.

JONATHAN TUCKER, Carnegie Institution of Science – The carbon footprint of oceanic volcanoes.

BEVERLY WALKER, National Science Foundation – Funding geoscience in Antarctica: the coldest, highest, driest, windiest continent on Earth.

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Meeting flyer to print and post at your institution

Future Meetings 2020: March 11, 25; April 29; May 13; Sept 9, 23; Oct 7; Nov 4; Dec 2.

Know someone who would enjoy GSW? Consider inviting a colleague or friend to the meeting.

Feb. 12 meeting draft minutes for review

Here are the draft minutes from the 1550th meeting (Feb. 12). 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.

Draft minutes from the 1549th meeting

Members, please review the Jan. 22 meeting’s draft minutes here and send any corrections or additions to Meeting Secretary Beth Doyle at edoyle@nvcc.edu.

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

2019 award winners

The Bradley Award, for best paper, goes to Deborah Green, for ‘You Don’t Look like a Geologist – Why are the Geosciences the least diverse of the STEM fields?’

The Bradley Award for 2nd best paper goes to Larry C. Peterson of the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami for ‘Ice Cores and Ocean Mud: Records of Abrupt Climate Change and Implications for Tropical Hydrology’

The Great Dane Award, for the best informal communication to the society of timely or newsworthy events, goes to James W Head of Brown University, Dept of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, for ‘Chang’E 4 Mission to the Lunar Farside and the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program (CLEP)’

The Sleeping Bear Award, for the person who displays the most memorable act of genuine good humor, goes to Bill Burton of the US Geological Survey.

Congratulations to all four of the awardees!