Author Archives: Michael Purucker

We will have a full slate of three talks. Join us to learn about the recent exploration of an enigmatic submarine province in the southern Ocean, exoplanets and how their atmospheric properties are revealed, and the rise of oxygen in the Earth’s atmosphere more than 2 Gy ago on the basis of new oxygen isotope studies. If you come to the Cosmos Club, please remember to bring your Covid vaccination card. It will be checked. Non-members are welcome! Details of the talks, including the Zoom link, will be sent to members shortly. Contact Michael Ackerson (ackersonm[at]si.edu) for the Zoom link if you do not have it.

It will feature a full slate of three talks. Join us to learn what super deep diamonds can tell us about the causes of deep focus Earthquakes, about volcanic climate warming, and about the initial analysis of the asteroid Ryugu. If you come to the Cosmos Club, please remember to bring your Covid vaccination card. It will be checked. And don’t forget to save some room for the beer. Non-members are welcome! Details of the talks, including the Zoom link, have been sent to members. Contact Michael Ackerson (ackersonm[at]si.edu) for the Zoom link if you do not have it.

Please find attached here the draft minutes of the April 6th meeting for members to evaluate. If you have any additions or corrections please email them to our meeting secretary, Beth Doyle, at edoyle[at]nvcc.edu.

Please find attached here the draft minutes of the March 23 meeting for members to evaluate. If you have any additions or corrections please email them to our meeting secretary, Beth Doyle at edoyle[at]nvcc.edu.

and feature a full slate of three talks. Join us to learn what paleomagnetic tools can tell us about the early Solar System, what zircon can tell us about environments on the early Earth, and using infrasound to characterize large volcanic eruptions. Zoom will open at 7:30 PM for you to socialize, and the meeting will begin at 8:00 PM. Talks will be 20 minutes with questions to follow. Details, including the Zoom link, will be sent to members shortly. Contact Michael Ackerson (ackersonm[at]si.edu) for the Zoom link if you do not have it. We hope to see you there!

It will also be available virtually, via Zoom. If you come to the Cosmos Club please remember to bring your Covid vaccination card. It will be checked before admission. And don’t forget to save some room for the beer. We have a full program of three talks, including a talk about the electrical properties of the terrestrial planets and moons, paleo-perspectives on future sea level projections for the U.S. Atlantic Coast, and finally fractionation and mixing processes in the early Solar System. Details, including the Zoom link, will be sent to members shortly. Contact Michael Ackerson (ackersonm[at]si.edu) for the Zoom link if you do not have it.

Please find attached here the draft minutes of the Feb 23 meeting for members to evaluate. If you have any additions or corrections please email them to our meeting secretary, Beth Doyle at edoyle[at]nvcc.edu.

It will also be available virtually, via Zoom. If you come to the Cosmos Club remember to bring your Covid vaccination card. It will be checked before admission. And don’t forget to save some room for the beer. We have a full program of three talks, including a talk about how water and other volatiles affects the behavior of silicic magmatic systems, then a behind-the-scenes look at the daily news process at National Geographic, and finally a presentation on the ‘original arms-race’ about how arms developed in the ancient forerunners of mammals. Contact Michael Ackerson (ackersonm[at]si.edu) for the Zoom link if you do not have it.

Please find attached here the draft minutes of the Feb 2 meeting for members to evaluate. If you have any additions or corrections please email them to our meeting secretary, Beth Doyle at edoyle[at]nvcc.edu.

The meeting will be in a virtual-only format, via Zoom. We have a full-schedule of three talks on 2 Feb beginning at 8 PM Eastern. Details, including the Zoom link, will be sent to members shortly. For non-members who wish to attend, please email Michael R. Ackerson (ackersonm[at]si.edu) for the Zoom link. Join us at 7:30 PM for socializing. The meeting will begin at 8 PM.