The Geological Society of Washington

Please take a look at the draft minutes of GSW meeting on 8 March. Any suggested changes or corrections should be sent to our meeting secretary glederer[at]usgs.gov

And will be a hybrid meeting at the Powell auditorium of the Cosmos Club, and on Zoom. The auditorium will open at 7:30 PM for socializing, and the meeting will begin at 8 PM. Our three talks include ones about joint geochemical & geophysical modeling of the deep continental crust (Sammon), Antarctic ice-sheet dynamics (Weber), and automated moonquake detection (Civilini). Members will shortly receive an invite which will include the Zoom link. Non-members are encouraged to attend, either in person or on Zoom. Anyone needing the Zoom link should email purucker[at]alumni.caltech.edu for it.

Please take a look at the draft minutes of the special seismology-themed GSW meeting on 8 February. Any suggested changes or corrections should be sent to our meeting secretary glederer[at]usgs.gov.

Meeting 1586 will be on Wednesday, February 8 and will be hybrid (live at the Cosmos Club with the option to dial in via Zoom).  The Cosmos Club has discontinued all its COVID-19 policies so masks and proof of vaccination are no longer required.  As usual, the meeting starts at 8 pm with refreshments offered at 7:30 at the Cosmos Club. The Zoom link will be activated at 7:30 for socializing. Members should have received the announcement, including the Zoom link. If you need the Zoom link, contact Kori.Newman[at]gmail.com or michael.e.purucker[at]gmail.com. Our speakers bios are here.

The speakers are as follows:

Jay Pulli, Raytheon BBN Technologies/Weston Observatory — Citizen Seismology: How a $400 Seismometer Led to a 4600 Station Global Network

Jingchuan Wang, University of Maryland — Passive Seismic Monitoring Using Microseismic Noise Sources: Two Case Studies from Alberta, Canada

Danielle Sumy, EarthScope — Geocoding Applications for Social Science to Improve Earthquake Early Warning

Please take a look at these draft meeting minutes, and if you have any changes or corrections please contact Graham Lederer, the meeting secretary (glederer at usgs.gov).

are awaiting your examination. Please take a look at them here, and if you have any additions or corrections, send them to Beth Doyle (edoyle at nvcc.edu) prior to our virtual-only meeting this coming Wednesday.

Will be a virtual only affair via Zoom with three talks. Patricia Gregg (Univ. of Illinois) will discuss forecasting volcanic unrest and eruption potential through thermo-mechanical modeling and geodetic data assimilation. This will be followed by ‘Forecasting Transport Modeling of Microbial Dynamics in Marine Methane Hydrate Systems’ by Li Wei (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory). The final talk, by Emilie Beaudon (Ohio State), is entitled ‘Paleoenvironmental Value of the Mineral Aerosol Record from the oldest Tibetan ice core’. All talks will be 20 minutes, with questions to follow. Members should have received email invitations to the meeting, which should include the Zoom link. Anyone who would like to attend, and has not received an invitation, can contact Kori Newman (kori.newman at gmail.com) for the meeting link. Hope to ‘see’ you there!

At the 7 December annual meeting, the Bradley Best paper was awarded to Brent Goehring (Tulane University) for Holocene Glacier Length. Variations along the Spine of the American Cordillera. Confirming Hypotheses and Worrisome Trends. The Best paper is awarded $200. The runner-up for the Best Paper was awarded to Jan Hellman (UMD) for Fractionation and Mixing Processes in the Early Solar System inferred from Tellurium Isotope Variations in Chondrites. The runner-up paper is awarded $100. The best informal communication was from Kadie Bennis (NMNH) for a presentation on the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai eruption. The best informal communication is awarded $50. The Sleeping Bear award goes to Steve Shirey.

Take a look at these minutes from our Nov. 16 meeting, and let our meeting secretary, Beth Doyle, know if you see anything that needs to be added or changed.

This year, unlike many previous years, we will be having our Presidential address & Business meeting at AGU Headquarters (2000 Florida Av, DC), and concurrently on Zoom. Our current president, Dr. Lawrence D. Meinert, will talk on ‘Exploration for Skarn Deposits – If Sherlock Holmes had been a Geologist’., Questions will not be entertained after Dr. Meinert’s talk, and the meeting will briefly adjourn. The annual business meeting of GSW members will then commence, with reports on our financial health and from other committees, and presentation of our annual awards. Then we will vote on the slate of officers (see below) for next year. When you come to AGU for the meetings (don’t go to the Cosmos Club!) please bring along your forehead for a temperature test, and also bring a record of your Covid-19 vaccinations. AGU will provide some snacks and drinks to tide us over. The doors to AGU Headquarters will open by 7 PM so that we can socialize before the meeting. Some previous GSW presidents will be taking Larry to dinner at the Cosmos Club before his Presidential address. Members will shortly receive the invitation for the meetings, and the Zoom link. Non-members are welcome to attend the Presidential address. If you don’t have the Zoom link, please contact Mike Ackerson for the details.

Proposed slate of officers for 2023

1st Vice President:              Dan Doctor (USGS)

2nd Vice President:             Ved Lekic (UMD)

Treasurer:                           Mark Fuhrmann

Meeting Secretary:              Graham Lederer (USGS)

Council Secretary:               Beth Doyle (NVCC)

Council Members

Ioan Lascu                            (NMNH Smithsonian)

Jonathan Tucker                 (NASEM)

MaryAnn Maliconico            (Lafayette U)