GSW Meeting Wednesday, May 13th at Cosmos Club

Join us to hear from leadership in the Earth Sciences at Federal Agencies

Sarah Ryker, U.S. Geological Survey, Associate Director for Associate Director for the Geology, Energy, and Minerals Mission Area

Megan Carr, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Associate Director of the Strategic Resources Program

The meeting will take place at the Cosmos Club John Wesley Powell Auditorium, 2170 Florida Avenue NW, Washington D.C

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

 If anyone has announcements or informal communications they would like to share with the society, please e-mail Mike Ackerson (ackersonm@si.edu) ahead of time.

Draft minutes from April 29th meeting (1620th GSW)

The draft minutes of our last meeting, on 29 April 2026, are attached for members to evaluate. If you have any additions or corrections please email them to our meeting secretary, Karin Lehnigk, at karin.e.lehnigk[at]nasa.gov.

GSW Meeting Wednesday, April 29th at Cosmos Club

Andrea Goltz, Carnegie Earth and Planets Laboratory – Predicting the Stability of Igneous Amphibole using Machine Learning

Supratik Roy, Johns Hopkins University – Constraining metamorphic rates in ancient orogens: insights from the Paleoproterozoic Lake Superior region (USA)

Kelsey Jenkins, Smithsonian Institution – Sensing in a Strange Land: The Fossil Record’s Story of Sensory Evolution

The meeting will take place at the Cosmos Club

John Wesley Powell Auditorium

2170 Florida Avenue NW, Washington D.C.

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

 If anyone has announcements or informal communications they would like to share with the society, please e-mail Mike Ackerson (AckersonM@si.edu) ahead of time.

Draft minutes from March 25th meeting (1619th GSW)

The draft minutes of our last meeting, on 25 March 2026, are attached for members to evaluate. If you have any additions or corrections please email them to our meeting secretary, Karin Lehnigk, at karin.e.lehnigk[at]nasa.gov.

GSW Meeting Wednesday, March 25th at Carnegie Earth and Planets Laboratory

Kevin Wong, Carnegie Earth and Planets Laboratory: Continent-breaking volcanoes: magmatic rifting in Ethiopia

Sajjad Akam, Smithsonian: Bursting the Bubble with Rocks: Decoding Marine Methane Cycling Using Seafloor Rocks

Denise Buckner, NASA Goddard: From asteroid Bennu to Mars: abiotic organics and the search for life beyond Earth

Refreshments at 7:30 pm, the formal program will begin at 8:00 pm

Carnegie Institution for Science – Earth and Planets Laboratory
5241 Broad Branch Rd, NW, Washington D.C.

(free parking plentiful)

* Members outside the DMV can attend via Zoom*

Please see the email announcement for the Zoom link, Meeting ID and Passcode

Draft minutes from March 4th meeting (1618th GSW)

The draft minutes of our last meeting, on 4 March 2026, are attached for members to evaluate. If you have any additions or corrections please email them to our meeting secretary, Karin Lehnigk, at karin.e.lehnigk[at]nasa.gov.

Draft minutes from Feb 11th meeting (1617th GSW)

The draft minutes of our last meeting, on 11 February 2026, are attached for members to evaluate. If you have any additions or corrections please email them to our meeting secretary, Karin Lehnigk, at karin.e.lehnigk[at]nasa.gov.

GSW Meeting Wednesday, March 4th at Cosmos Club

Elizabeth Tomaszewski, USGS – Coal Mine Waste as a Resource: How Fundamental Geochemistry Informs Critical Mineral Recovery Potential

Joshua Rosera, USGS – What’s the point? Tracking regional orientations of magmatism through time in the Rocky Mountains

Oded Elazar, Carnegie Earth and Planets Laboratory – Metasomatic Fluids from Subducted Oceanic Crust Recorded by Potassium Isotopes in Sierra Leone Diamonds

The meeting will take place at the Cosmos Club

John Wesley Powell Auditorium

2170 Florida Avenue NW, Washington D.C.

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

 If anyone has announcements or informal communications they would like to share with the society, please e-mail Mike Ackerson (AckersonM@si.edu) ahead of time.

Upcoming 2026 Spring Meetings: Mar. 25, Apr. 29, May 13

Draft minutes from Dec 3rd meeting (1616th GSW)

The draft minutes of our last meeting, on 3 December 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.

GSW Meeting at Cosmos Club, Wed. Feb.11

Kathryn Hobart, USGS – Critical Minerals in Mine Waste: a case study on sulfides from volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits

Ludmila Fonseca Teixeria, Smithsonian – How to find volcanoes that no longer exist?

Katherine Turk, Smithsonian – Behavioral innovation at the dawn of modern oceans

The meeting will take place at the Cosmos Club

John Wesley Powell Auditorium

2170 Florida Avenue NW, Washington D.C.

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

 If anyone has announcements or informal communications they would like to share with the society, please e-mail Mike Ackerson (AckersonM@si.edu) ahead of time.

Upcoming 2026 Spring Meetings: Mar. 04, Mar. 25, Apr. 29, May 13