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

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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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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GSW Meeting Wednesday, March 4th at Cosmos Club

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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

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

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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.

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GSW Meeting at Cosmos Club, Wed. Feb.11

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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

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GSW Fall Field Trip! Sat. Dec. 20, 2025

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USGS Geologist Peter Valley will lead a hike along Difficult Run to the Potomac River below Great Falls. Along the way are metagraywackes, migmatites, and even some petroglyphs! The parking area for Difficult Run Stream Valley Park is small and fills up quickly; therefore, we will arrange carpools.

Meet at 8:00 am at the Reston Town Center Metro station, on the south side in the parking area adjacent to the bus stop and roundabout at the Kiss and Ride. Carpools will be arranged from this point to the Difficult Run trailhead. Wear sturdy shoes or boots that may become wet. This trail is very rocky and steep in places, requiring some rock scrambling in sections. Please bring a lunch and water.

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Draft minutes from Nov 12th meeting (1615th GSW)

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The draft minutes of our last meeting, on 12 November 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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December 3rd, GSW Annual meeting at Carnegie Earth and Planets Laboratory

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The 133rd Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of Washington will take place on December 3rd, 2025 in the auditorium of the Carnegie Earth and Planets Laboratory, 5241 Broad Branch Road NW, Washington D.C.

This will be a HYBRID meeting. Please see the email announcement for the Zoom link.

Dr. VED LEKIĆ will deliver the Presidential Address entitled:

“A Tale of Two Worlds: The Core-Mantle Boundaries of Earth and Mars“

Annual awards will be announced, and election of the 2026 GSW slate of officers and councilors will also take place.

Slate of Officers for 2026:

  • President:  Michael Ackerson* (Smithsonian)
  • 1st VP & President Elect: Michael Walter* (Carnegie EPL)
  • 2nd Vice President: Stephen Mackwell (Univ. of Maryland)
  • Past President: Ved Lekić (Univ. of Maryland)
  • Treasurer: Andy Campbell* (NRC, retired)
  • Meeting Secretary: Karin Lehnigk (NASA)
  • Council Secretary: Beth Doyle* (NOVA Community College)
  • Councilors: 
    • Linda Rowan* (CRS)
    • Ross Salerno* (USGS)
    • David Vanko* (Towsen Univ., retired)
    • Jamie Allan (NSF, retired)
    • Charna Meth
    • Virginia Agostinelli (Montgomery County College)
  • *Officers and councilors carrying over from 2025

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Draft minutes from Oct 29th meeting (1614th GSW)

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The draft minutes of our last meeting, on 29 October 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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