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We are delighted to announce the GSW award winners for 2020.

1st place formal talk:

KATHLEEN BENISON, West Virginia University – Salt on Mars: Astrobiological Tombs?

2nd place formal talk:

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

Great Dane Award for best informal presentation:

Arthur Merschat (USGS) reported details of the magnitude 5.1 Sparta, North Carolina earthquake that occurred on August 9, 2020.

The Sleeping Bear award winner was 

Jeremy Hoffman (Chief Scientist at the Science Museum of Virginia)

Draft minutes of GSW meeting 1560

Please take a look at the draft minutes 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.

on January 27 at 8 PM will feature Dr. Jessica Warren (University of Delaware), Dr. Ellen Knappe (Scripps Institute of Oceanography), and Dr. Kira Olsen (NASA Goddard). We anticipate that this meeting will be virtual. Stay tuned here for further details.

Dr. Ester Sztein, The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine

A path to International Scientific Collaborations in the Geosciences

Wednesday, December 2, 2020. Meeting No. 1560

Zoom link active at 7:30 PM EST for socializing. Formal program begins at 8:00 PM

Meeting to be held virtually via Zoom.

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

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 (8:15 PM), after which time new attendees will only be allowed into the meeting after the talk (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.

Please take a look at the draft minutes 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.

https://gswweb.org/new/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/1559th-Meeting-of-GSW-Minutes-Draft-es-1.docx

Draft minutes of 1556 (Word Document)

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.

Draft minutes of 1557 (Word Document)

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.

Wednesday, Oct 7, 2020

Meeting #1558

Jeremy Hoffman, Science Museum of Virginia, “The enduring legacy of inequitable exposure to urban heat and other tales”

Sarah C. Penniston-Dorland, University of Maryland, “Applying crystal clocks to metamorphic processes: Using Li isotopes in garnet to constrain the duration of fluid flow during subduction metamorphism”

Carol Frost, University of Wyoming, “Born Strong: the making and breaking of cratons“

TALKS WILL BE 20 MINUTES w/QUESTIONS TO FOLLOW

Formal program at 8:00 pm EDT

*** Meeting to be held virtually via Zoom***

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.

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

WEDNESDAY, Sept 9, 2020
MEETING # 1556

SAMANTHA TRAMONTANO, The City University of New York
Assembling and mobilizing mushy magma at Momotombo Volcano, Nicaragua and the 2015-2016 eruption

LINDSEY YANN, Waco Mammoth National Monument
Geologic History and Discovery of America’s Columbian Mammoth Nursery Herd

NORA NOFFKE, Old Dominion University
A microbial ecosystem in the 3.49 Ga Dresser Formation, Pilbara, Australia

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 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 minutesafter the formal program begins (i.e. 8:15 pm), after which 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@usgs.gov) for the Zoom link.

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

Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to review these minutes for inaccuracies, subtle nuances, and anything that might be missing.

1532nd Meeting of GSW Minutes (Draft)

If you spot any errors, email them to meeting secretary Victor Zabielski at gsw.meeting.secretary@gmail.com to be approved at the next meeting.