Monthly Archives: May 2019

Draft minutes: Meeting 1543 (for review by members)

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Greetings GSW members! Your keen eyes are needed to review these draft minutes from the 1543rd meeting. There’s at least one missing last name in there – help us fill it in! Please send corrections or additions to Meeting Secretary Megan Holycross at holycrossm@si.edu. Thanks in advance for giving this a few moments of your attention.

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GSW 1543: Mineralogy and oceans, Icelandic coring, and bonebeds

Posted on May 1, 2019 by | Comments Off on GSW 1543: Mineralogy and oceans, Icelandic coring, and bonebeds

The Geological Society of Washington
founded 1893

WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 2019
MEETING 1543

GABRIELA FARFAN
Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History
“A mineral perspective on coral skeletons in a changing ocean”

EMILY MARTIN
Smithsonian Institution’s National Air & Space Museum
“Holes in the ground are cool: Using pit chains in Iceland to
measure snow on Saturn’s moon Enceladus”

MATTHEW T. CARRANO
Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History
“Challenges and benefits of using vertebrate microfossil bonebeds
for understanding terrestrial paleoecosystems”

TALKS WILL BE 20 MINUTES w/ QUESTIONS TO FOLLOW

Meeting flyer to print and post – Help spread the word!
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Refreshments at 7:30 p.m. Formal program at 8:00 p.m.
John Wesley Powell Auditorium
2170 Florida Avenue NW, Washington, DC
www.gswweb.org

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Upcoming field trip options for GSW members

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Hi everyone,

I welcome your participation in a field trip I’m running Saturday, May 11, to Corridor H, West Virginia, for the “Royal Rockhounds” of Front Royal. Corridor H is a highway that cuts through the folded and faulted Paleozoic sedimentary rocks of the Valley & Ridge geological province. It’s an excellent place to see primary sedimentary structures, fossils, unconformities, contacts, and anticlines & synclines. If you’re available and interested, we’re going to meet up at 9am sharp at the McDonald’s + Exxon in Strasburg, VA on route 11, real close to I-81:

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.005957,-78.3390373,180m/data=!3m1!1e3

This is not an official GSW trip, but it’s open to all. If you think you’re going to do this, please let me know (cbentley@nvcc.edu), so I know whether to look for you there on that morning. It’ll conclude mid-to-late afternoon.

Also, as mentioned at the last meeting, on June 1, Caitlin Chazen, Marla Morales, and I will be running a “field workshop” (a field trip about field trips) in Rock Creek Park, DC, using DC’s bedrock geology as a platform to discuss how geoscience instructors can most effectively run field trips. This trip is intended for geoscience educators at the high school, college, or university level. It’s free, and lunch is provided, but advance registration is required. More information is online at:

https://serc.carleton.edu/sage2yc/teams/dc_metro/workshop18-19/index.html

-Callan Bentley

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