Draft minutes of 1558 (Word Document)
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Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2020
Meeting #1559
David Mogk, Montana State University, “Geoethics in an Uncertain World“
TALK WILL be 60 MINUTES w/QUESTIONS TO FOLLOW
Formal program at 8:00 pm EST
*** Meeting to be held virtually via Zoom***
Meeting flyer to print out and post in your living room.
As a continuing effort to ensure that our speakers are able to present their talks without any distractions/disruptions, the meeting will be locked 15 minutes after the formal program begins, after which time new attendees will only be allowed into the meeting between talks (the waiting room will be enabled for anyone trying to enter the meeting during a talk). To Attend: Please e-mail Abraham Padilla (apadilla [at] usgs.gov) for the Zoom link.
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Wednesday, Oct 7, 2020
Meeting #1558
Jeremy Hoffman, Science Museum of Virginia, “The enduring legacy of inequitable exposure to urban heat and other tales”
Sarah C. Penniston-Dorland, University of Maryland, “Applying crystal clocks to metamorphic processes: Using Li isotopes in garnet to constrain the duration of fluid flow during subduction metamorphism”
Carol Frost, University of Wyoming, “Born Strong: the making and breaking of cratons“
TALKS WILL BE 20 MINUTES w/QUESTIONS TO FOLLOW
Formal program at 8:00 pm EDT
*** Meeting to be held virtually via Zoom***
As a continuing effort to ensure that our speakers are able to present their talks without any distractions/disruptions, the meeting will be locked 15 minutes after the formal program begins, after which time new attendees will only be allowed into the meeting between talks (the waiting room will be enabled for anyone trying to enter the meeting during a talk). To Attend: Please e-mail Abraham Padilla (apadilla [at] usgs.gov) for the Zoom link.
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WEDNESDAY, Sept 23, 2020
MEETING #1557
Megan Newcombe, University of Maryland, “The final countdown to eruptions: short-timescale diffusion clocks for studying conduit processes”
Erica Jawin, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, “OSIRIS-REx, NASA’s Asteroid Sample Return Mission to 101955 Bennu”
Kathleen Benison, West Virginia University, “Salt on Mars: Astrobiological Tombs?”
TALKS WILL BE 20 MINUTES w/ QUESTIONS TO FOLLOW
Zoom link active at 7:30 pm EDT for socializing
Formal program at 8:00 pm EDT
*** Meeting to be held virtually via Zoom***
As a continued effort to ensure that our speakers are able to present their talks without any distractions/disruptions, the meeting will be locked 15 minutes after the formal program begins, after which time new attendees will only be allowed into the meeting between talks (the waiting room will be enable for anyone trying to enter the meeting during a talk). To Attend: Please e-mail Abraham Padilla (apadilla@usgs.gov) for the Zoom link.
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WEDNESDAY, Sept 9, 2020
MEETING # 1556
SAMANTHA TRAMONTANO, The City University of New York
Assembling and mobilizing mushy magma at Momotombo Volcano, Nicaragua and the 2015-2016 eruption
LINDSEY YANN, Waco Mammoth National Monument
Geologic History and Discovery of America’s Columbian Mammoth Nursery Herd
NORA NOFFKE, Old Dominion University
A microbial ecosystem in the 3.49 Ga Dresser Formation, Pilbara, Australia
TALKS WILL BE 20 MINUTES w/ QUESTIONS TO FOLLOW
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Zoom link active at 7:30 p.m. EDT for socializing
Formal program at 8:00 p.m. EDT
***Meeting to be held virtually via Zoom***
As a continued effort to ensure that our speakers are able to present their talks without any distractions/disruptions, the meeting will be locked 15 minutesafter the formal program begins (i.e. 8:15 pm), after which new attendees will only be allowed into the meeting between talks (the waiting room will be enabled for anyone trying to enter the meeting during a talk). To Attend: Please e-mail Abraham Padilla (apadilla@usgs.gov) for the Zoom link.
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Yep, that’s how GSW presidents do snow. ❄️🎿
Preserved footprints in Kenya appear to record two different species of ancient humans walking over the same muddy lakeshore, probably within days of each other.
Happy Birthday P.J.!
The Bledug Kesongo mud volcano in Indonesia 🌋
