Author Archives: Michael Purucker

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.

Please find attached here a draft of the Jan 12 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 Bradley Prize for the best formal scientific talk went to Courtney L. Wagner of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History for her talk of Oct 13, Navigating through environmental disasters with magneto fossils.

The prize for the second-best formal talk went to Cara M. Santelli of the University of Minnesota for her talk of April 21, First we should consider Manoomin: Decentering Western science through collaborative tribal-university research on wild rice.

The Great Dane award for the best informal communication to the Society of timely or newsworthy events went to Michael R. Ackerson of the Smithsonian for his information on Unlearning Racism in the Geosciences (URGE), an NSF-funded and geoscientist-led initiative.

The Sleeping Bear award for genuine good humor at meetings went to Karianne J. Bergen of Brown University.

The meeting will be in a virtual-only format, via Zoom.  We have a full-schedule of three talks on 12 January 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@si.edu) for the Zoom link. Join us at 7:30 PM for socializing. The meeting will begin at 8 PM. 

Please find attached here a draft of the Dec 1 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

because of the prevalence/surge of the Omicron variant of Covid-19, we have decided to change the Jan. 12 meeting to a virtual only affair. Details will follow.

GSW traditionally hosts a dinner for the current president prior to their presidential address. This year we also took the immediate past president to dinner because last year’s dinner was cancelled as a consequence of Covid-19. The number in parenthesis is the year they served GSW as president. L. to R. on the front row we have Linda Rowan (2011), Rosalind Helz (1994), Ester Sztein (2020), Liz Cottrell (2021), Karen Prestegaard (2018), Mary Horan (spouse), Jane Hammarstrom (2000), and Lynn Shirey (spouse). L. to R. on the back row we have Callan Bentley (2017), Bill Burton (2009), Richard Walker (2006), George Helz (1996), Tim Mock (2014), David Applegate (2003), Brooks Hanson (2005), Michael Purucker (2019), and Steve Shirey (1999).

Newly elected officers for 2022: President: Larry Meinert (Economic Geology & CSM); 1st VP: Kori Newman (STR); 2nd VP: Victor Zabielski (NVCC); Treasurer: Mark Fuhrmann (NRC retired); Council Secretary: Pat Carr (Dept of Defense); New Council Members: Mike Walter (Carnegie EPL), Megan Newcombe (Univ. of Maryland), Steve Mackwell (Rice University); Meeting Secretary: Beth Doyle (NVCC).

Please find attached here a draft of the Nov. 17 meeting for members to evaluate. If you have any corrections or additions please email them to our meeting secretary, Beth Doyle at edoyle[at]nvcc.edu