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GSW Meeting 1557: Draft of minutes for members to evaluate

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.

GSW 1558: Urban heat, fluid flow during subduction, & cratonic stability

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.

GSW 1556: Magma, Mammoth nurseries & Microbial ecosystems

WEDNESDAY, Sept 9, 2020
MEETING # 1556

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

LINDSEY YANNWaco Mammoth National Monument
Geologic History and Discovery of America’s Columbian Mammoth Nursery Herd

NORA NOFFKEOld 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.

Draft minutes from the 1532nd meeting

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.