Draft minutes from May 14th meeting (1611th GSW)

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The draft minutes of our last meeting, on 14 May 2025, are attached for members to evaluate. If you have any additions or corrections please email them to our meeting secretary, Jessie Bersson, at BerssonJ[at]si.edu.

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Draft minutes from April 30th meeting (1610th GSW)

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The draft minutes of our last meeting, on 30 April 2025, are attached for members to evaluate. If you have any additions or corrections please email them to our meeting secretary, Jessie Bersson, at BerssonJ[at]si.edu.

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May 14 – GSW in-person meeting at Cosmos Club

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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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Draft minutes from April 9th meeting (1609th GSW)

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The draft minutes of our last meeting, on 9 April 2025, are attached for members to evaluate. If you have any additions or corrections please email them to our meeting secretary, Jessie Bersson, at BerssonJ[at]si.edu.

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April 30th – GSW meeting at Carnegie Earth and Planets Laboratory

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**The meeting will be preceded by a poster session for early career participants, starting at 6:30 pm.** Formal talks will be broadcast via Zoom and will start at 8 pm and be 20 minutes each with questions to follow. To attend virtually, please register for the Zoom meeting at this link by 4:00 pm April 30th:

https://zoom.us/meeting/register/mYvoeQilSRWYRNPtFBRmfQ

If you plan on presenting a poster, please let us know via this form: https://forms.gle/juaxpa7dtMUemjpt6

Theme of the event: M3 -Moon, Mars, Mercury

JACLYN CLARK, University of Maryland, College Park – The Moon Has its Faults

ANDREW STEELE, Carnegie Earth and Planets Laboratory – Martian Organic Geochemistry: A Tale of Meteorites, Curiosity, and Perseverance

SANDER GOOSSENS, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center –
Mercury, Moon, and Mars: from Crust to Core

Carnegie Institution for Science
Earth and Planets Laboratory, Greenewalt Building
5241 Broad Branch Rd, NW, Washington D.C.
(free parking plentiful)

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April 9th – GSW meeting at Cosmos Club

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Theme of the event: Rock Deformation and Tectonics

RYAN McALEER, USGS – Microtextures and Microchemistry in Retrograde Shear Zones: Implications for Geochronology, Deformation Mechanisms, and Rock Strength

WENLU ZHU, University of Maryland, College Park – Effect of Partial Melt on Seismic Wave Velocity of Mantle Peridotite

EMILY MARTIN, National Air and Space Museum – Dione’s Tectonic History and Evidence for a Global Subsurface Ocean

***THIS IS AN IN-PERSON MEETING ONLY***

Refreshments at 7:30 p.m., formal program at 8:00 p.m.

John Wesley Powell Auditorium, 2170 Florida Avenue NW, Washington D.C.

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Draft minutes from March 5th meeting (1608th GSW)

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The draft minutes of our last meeting, on 5 March 2025, are attached for members to evaluate. If you have any additions or corrections please email them to our meeting secretary, Jessie Bersson, at BerssonJ[at]si.edu.

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March 5th – GSW Meeting at Cosmos Club

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Theme of the event: Earth’s Mantle

VAL FINLAYSON, University of Maryland, College Park –A High Field Strength Perspective on Tungsten-182 Variability in Ocean Island Basalts

GIACOMO CRINITI, Carnegie Earth and Planets Laboratory – Mineral Physics Constraints on the Composition of the Lower Mantle

JINGCHUAN WANG, University of Maryland, College Park – Tracking Ancient Intraoceanic Subduction in the Deep Mantle: Insights from the Southeast Pacific

***THIS IS AN IN-PERSON MEETING ONLY***

Refreshments at 7:30 p.m., formal program at 8:00 p.m.

John Wesley Powell Auditorium, 2170 Florida Avenue NW, Washington D.C.

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Draft GSW minutes from meeting of 29 Jan 2025

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The new meeting secretary, Dr. Jessica Bersson (SI), has provided the GSW minutes from our meeting at the Carnegie on 29 Jan 2025. The minutes can be accessed here.

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**CANCELED DUE TO WEATHER** February 12: 1608th GSW meeting at Cosmos Club

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Apologies for the late notice, but the worsening forecast for tomorrow has forced us to cancel the in-person meeting on Feb 12th. We will be in touch with more information about rescheduling. 

***This meeting will be rescheduled*** : Theme of the event: M3 – Moon, Mars, Mercury

JACLYN CLARK, University of Maryland, College Park – The Moon Has its Faults

ANDREW STEELE, Carnegie Earth and Planets Laboratory – Martian Organic Geochemistry: A Tale of Meteorites, Curiosity, and Perseverance

SANDER GOOSSENS, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center – Mercury, Moon, and Mars: from Crust to Core

***This meeting will be rescheduled***

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