Posted onMay 5, 2025byDaniel Doctor|Comments Off on May 14 – GSW in-person meeting at Cosmos Club
Theme of the event: Ancient Earth
IOAN LASCU, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History – Magnetofossils: Relicts of Deep Time?
CECELIA SANDERS, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History – Relating Paleoecology and Phosphorite Formation across Deep Time
DANIEL SEGESSENMAN, George Mason University – Geology’s Greatest Hits: The North American Rock Record Remastered
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.
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Posted onSeptember 20, 2024byDaniel Doctor|Comments Off on October 9th GSW meeting, Bradley Lecture presented by Dr. Isabel Montañez
The 1603rd meeting of the Geological Society of Washington will take place at the Cosmos Club on October 9. We are honored to host Dr. Isabel P. Montañez of the University of California, Davis as our Bradley Lecturer this year with the presentation: “Paleo-CO2 Revisited — New insight into the Earth System of the Deep Past“.
Dr. Montañez is the Director of the UC Davis Institute of the Environment, and is the current Chair of the National Academies of Sciences Board on Earth Sciences and Resources. Learn more about Dr. Montañez and her distinguished career at her website: https://eps.ucdavis.edu/people/faculty/montanez
Come at 7:30 PM to socialize and imbibe, the meeting begins at 8 PM, and ends by 10 PM.
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Parking is free on the campus, or on-street in the vicinity
This will be a special event, highlighting the work of early-career scientists. Ahead of the formal program, we will hold an informal gathering with food, beverages, and poster presentations by students, post-docs and other early-career workers. We welcome poster presentation contributions: please email Dan Doctor (dhdoctor@usgs.gov) if you have a poster to present!
Hors d’oeuvres and beverages will be served beginning at 6:30 p.m., during the poster presentations
***This will be a hybrid meeting***
If you wish to join the virtual Zoom webcast, please email geosocwash@gmail.com by Tuesday, April 23 for the information to join the webcast.
Formal program begins at 8:00 p.m, with the following speakers:
Emmanuel Codillo, Carnegie Earth and Planets Laboratory — Tracking carbon-rich magmas in the upper mantle using electrical conductivity
Vasilije Dobrosavljevic, Carnegie Earth and Planets Laboratory — Probing materials at Earth’s enigmatic core-mantle boundary landscape
Jennifer Kasbohm, Yale University/Carnegie Earth and Planets Laboratory — Calibrating timescales and measuring pCO2 to test the role of Columbia River Basalt volcanism in the Miocene Climate Optimum
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This will be an IN-PERSON meeting only. Three excellent talks will be presented:
ISABELLE COZZARELLI (U.S. Geological Survey) – Evolution of geochemical process understanding gained from long-term investigations of the Bemidji, Minnesota, terrestrial crude oil spill
GEOFFREY GILLEAUDEAU (George Mason University) – Perspectives on Neoproterozoic continental weathering and ocean oxygenation and its effect on the evolving biosphere
BEN KLIGMAN (Smithsonian Institution) – Searching for the hidden origins of living tetrapods in Triassic equatorial Pangaea
Come at 7:30 PM to socialize and imbibe, the meeting begins at 8 PM, and ends by 10 PM. Speaker bios and talk abstracts are available here.
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Posted onJanuary 21, 2021byMichael Purucker|Comments Off on GSW Meeting 1561 on 27 Jan 2021: Transform faults, Hydrology with GPS, and Icequakes on Enceladus
Wednesday, 27 January 2021
Jessica Warren, University of Delaware, “Global oceanic transform faults: the link between fluid flow and seismic behavior“
Ellen Knappe, University of California-San Diego, “The capability of GPS to measure watershed hydrology“
Kira Olsen, NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center, “Icequakes on Enceladus: Investigation into tidally modulated seismicity at icy rifts using an Antarctic analog“
Talks will be 20 minutes with questions to follow. The Zoom link opens at 7:30 PM for socializing. Formal program begins at 8 PM Eastern time.
To insure that our speakers are able to present their talks without any distractions or disruptions, the meeting will be locked 15 minutes after the formal program begins, after which time new attendees will only be allowed into the meeting room between talks (the waiting room will be enabled for anyone trying to enter the meeting during a talk. Further details, including the Zoom link to the talk, will be sent to members shortly. For non-members: Please e-mail Mong-Han Huang (mhhuang [at] umd.edu) for the Zoom link
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As a continuing effort to ensure that our speakers are able to present their talks without any distractions/disruptions, the meeting will be locked 15 minutes after the formal program begins, after which time new attendees will only be allowed into the meeting between talks (the waiting room will be enabled for anyone trying to enter the meeting during a talk). To Attend: Please e-mail Abraham Padilla (apadilla [at] usgs.gov) for the Zoom link.
Megan Newcombe, University of Maryland, “The final countdown to eruptions: short-timescale diffusion clocks for studying conduit processes”
Erica Jawin, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, “OSIRIS-REx, NASA’s Asteroid Sample Return Mission to 101955 Bennu”
Kathleen Benison, West Virginia University, “Salt on Mars: Astrobiological Tombs?”
TALKS WILL BE 20 MINUTES w/ QUESTIONS TO FOLLOW
Zoom link active at 7:30 pm EDT for socializing
Formal program at 8:00 pm EDT
*** Meeting to be held virtually via Zoom***
As a continued effort to ensure that our speakers are able to present their talks without any distractions/disruptions, the meeting will be locked 15 minutes after the formal program begins, after which time new attendees will only be allowed into the meeting between talks (the waiting room will be enable for anyone trying to enter the meeting during a talk). To Attend: Please e-mail Abraham Padilla (apadilla@usgs.gov) for the Zoom link.
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Posted onMay 10, 2020bygsw|Comments Off on 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
Posted onApril 21, 2020bygsw|Comments Off on 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***
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Posted onMarch 20, 2020bygsw|Comments Off on 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.
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Preserved footprints in Kenya appear to record two different species of ancient humans walking over the same muddy lakeshore, probably within days of each other.
