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Next GSW meeting will be at AGU headquarters

Posted on February 27, 2020 | Comments Off on 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.

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

Posted on February 21, 2020 | Comments Off on 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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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.

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Feb. 12 meeting draft minutes for review

Posted on February 14, 2020 | Comments Off on 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.

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Draft minutes from the 1549th meeting

Posted on February 5, 2020 | Comments Off on 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.

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

Posted on January 31, 2020 | Comments Off on 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

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GSW meeting 1548: Draft minutes for review

Posted on January 11, 2020 | Comments Off on 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.

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GSW 1549: shockwaves, field camp, & Patagonia

Posted on January 8, 2020 | Comments Off on 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

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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

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2019 award winners

Posted on December 9, 2019 | Comments Off on 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!

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Slate of officer candidates for 2020

Posted on November 21, 2019 | Comments Off on Slate of officer candidates for 2020
The proposed slate of GSW officers for next year is:
President: Ester Sztein (National Academy of Sciences)
1st VP: Liz Cottrell (National Museum of Natural History ,Smithsonian Institution)
2nd VP: Larry Meinert (Independent consultant & Editor, Economic Geology)
Treasurer: Carl-Henry Geschwind (Independent researcher)
Council Secretary: Pat Carr (National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency)
Council Members: Pranoti Asher (American Geophysical Union)
        Julia Nord (George Mason University)
        Bill Craddock (United States Geological Survey)
Meeting Secretary: Beth Doyle (Northern Virginia Community College)
The Society will vote on this slate at the 127th annual meeting, on December 4th, following the 2019 Presidential address.

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GSW 1548: Presidential address and 127th annual meeting

Posted on November 21, 2019 | Comments Off on GSW 1548: Presidential address and 127th annual meeting
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2019
MEETING 1548
Michael E. Purucker
Chief, Laboratory of Planetary Magnetospheres
Solar System Exploration Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Presidential address: ‘Geology of the Earth, Moon, Mars, and Mercury as revealed by the magnetic fields in their crusts’
The Presidential address will be followed by a brief intermission and then the 127th annual meeting of the Society.
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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
www.gswweb.org

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