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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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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.

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 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

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.

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
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GSW 1547: the 2019 Bradley lecture

The Geological Society of Washington
founded 1893

WEDNESDAY, November 13, 2019
MEETING # 1547

The 2019 Bradley Lecture

R. Steven Nerem,
University of Colorado,
Measuring Sea Level Change from Space: What are the measurements telling us?

Abstract: Satellite altimetry (TOPEX/Poseidon, Jason-1, Jason-2, and Jason-3) and satellite gravity (GRACE and GRACE Follow-On) measurements have provided a wealth of new information on how sea level has been changing over the last few decades. This is giving us important informations about the causes of sea level change and about how it will evolve in the future. This talk will review these satellite technologies, summarize the changes we have observed, and discuss what this tells us about future sea level change. Our future under climate-driven sea level rise is becoming clearer, but there are still important questions to be answered.

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TALK WILL BE ONE HOUR IN DURATION 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 1546

The Geological Society of Washington
founded 1893

WEDNESDAY, October 23, 2019
MEETING # 1546

SIOBHÁN COOKE,
The Johns Hopkins University

Primate Evolution at La Venta, Colombia

JORDEN HAYES,
Dickinson College
The Space Between: Porosity production in the critical zone

GRAHAM LEDERER & BILL BURTON,
U.S. Geological Survey
Powell 150, the Sesquicentennial Colorado River Exploring
Expedition, and the continued legacy of John Wesley Powell

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 1545: 2 landslides + 1 crustal evolution

The Geological Society of Washington
founded 1893

WEDNESDAY, October 2, 2019
MEETING # 1545

DALIA KIRSCHBAUM, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Finding the Slippery Slope: Opportunities to Investigate Landslides from Space

MONG-HAN HUANG, University of Maryland
Monitoring seasonal slow-moving landslide and hazard in Aizawl, India from space

TAMARA CARLEY, Lafayette College
Investigating proto-continental crust construction using very young (Icelandic) and very old (Hadean) zircon

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 1544: Diversity, funding, & light stable isotopes

The Geological Society of Washington
founded 1893

WEDNESDAY, September 11, 2019
MEETING # 1544

Deborah Green, Richard H. Jahns Distinguished Lecturer in Applied Geology

You Don’t Look Like a Geologist –
Why are the Geosciences the Least Diverse of the STEM Fields?

Laura Szymanski, Geological Society of America

Funding to Fly High: How the appropriation process works for NASA projects

Scott Wieman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Light stable isotope research in support of ongoing and future NASA flight missions

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TALKS WILL BE 20 MINUTES w/ QUESTIONS TO FOLLOW

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