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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

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John Wesley Powell Auditorium
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 2019
MEETING 1542

DR. LARRY C. PETERSON,
University of Miami
Ice Cores and Ocean Mud: Records of Abrupt Climate Change
and Implications for Tropical Hydrology

DR. SHAENA MONTANARI,
National Science Foundation AAAS
Science and Technology Policy Fellow
Cracking the egg: The use of modern and fossil eggs for
ecological, environmental and biological interpretation

DR. KIMBERLEY R. MINER,
U.S. Army Engineer Research & Development Center’s Geospatial Research Laboratory
The secret legacy of glaciers: Assessing the risk of legacy
pollution in glacial meltwater

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TALKS WILL BE 20 MINUTES w/ QUESTIONS TO FOLLOW
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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

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 2019
MEETING 1541

AARON M. BARTH, Emory & Henry College
Deglacial thinning of the Laurentide Ice Sheet in the Adirondack
Mountains, New York, USA revealed by 36Cl exposure dating

SHERYL A. SINGERLING, U.S. Geological Survey
The Life and Times of Sulfides in CM Chondrites, from Nebular
Crystallization to Asteroidal Alteration

ADAM PRITCHARD, Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum
of Natural History
The origin and rise of the modern reptile groups and the Permo-
Triassic Transition

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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

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 2019
MEETING 1540

IOAN LASCU, Smithsonian Institution
Magnetic Trek Into Vortex: The Nature of Magnetic Carriers in Rocks Revealed

G. LYNN WINGARD, U.S. Geological Survey
The Application of Holocene Records to Resource Management: An Example from the Everglades

LAWRENCE D. MEINERT, Meinert Consulting, LLC
Space Resources – the Hype versus Reality

TALKS WILL BE 20 MINUTES w/ QUESTIONS TO FOLLOW

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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
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2019
MEETING 1539

Peter Brannen, journalist and author
Earth’s Great Mass Extinctions, Past and Future

Helen Janiszewski, Carnegie Institution
The Birth and Death of a Plate:
What Offshore Instrumentation Teaches Us About Subduction Zones

Angela G Marusiak, University of Maryland
Exploring Icy Moons:
How Greenland can help us Understand Ice Covered Worlds

TALKS WILL BE 20 MINUTES w/ QUESTIONS TO FOLLOW

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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

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 2019
MEETING 1538

Erica Suosaari, Smithsonian Institution
Hamelin Pool, Shark Bay, Western Australia: A Microbial Carbonate Factory

June Wicks, Johns Hopkins University 
Planetary Exploration in the Age of Big Lasers

Janine Krippner, Concord University
Exceptionally Large Lava Dome Collapse Events and Block-and-Ash Flows: Hot and Fast Avalanches of Destruction

TALKS WILL BE 20 MINUTES w/ QUESTIONS TO FOLLOW

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Refreshments at 7:30 p.m. Formal program at 8:00 p.m.
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Our next meeting will be Wednesday, January 9, 2019.

Speakers will be:

Dalia Kirschbaum, NASA – Finding the slippery slope: Opportunities to investigate landslides from space (cancelled due to the Government Shutdown)
Replaced with two 10-minute talks:

Insight at Mars: The Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport  by Nick Schmerr (University of Maryland)

Geological characteristics of Von Kármán crater, northwestern South Pole-Aitken basin: Chang’E-4 landing site region by Jim Head (Brown University)

Abraham Padilla, USGS – How to assemble a silicic magma system in the Icelandic crust

Joyce Sim, Carnegie Institution – Melt focusing beneath mid-ocean ridges

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Meeting announcement: the 1536th meeting of the Geological Society of Washington will be the 2018 Presidential address:

Dr. Karen Prestegaard
University of Maryland, College Park

“How trees influence hydrological processes, weathering, and carbon fluxes in boreal forest soils”

Wednesday, December 5, 2018

The 1536th regular meeting will be followed by the 126th Annual Meeting of the Society. Members should review the draft minutes of the 125th annual meeting before attending, and send any corrections to Meeting Secretary Victor Zabielski at vzabielski@nvcc.edu.

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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
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2018
MEETING 1534

PETER VAN KEKEN, Carnegie Institution
Linking metamorphic dehydration reactions with subduction zone earthquakes

ROSEMARY KILLEN, NASA
Mercury’s exosphere

RYAN HAUPT, Smithsonian Institution
Applying paleontological proxy methods to modern sloths: What can the odd mammal out tell us about their even odder fossil relatives?

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Refreshments at 7:30 p.m. Formal program at 8:00 p.m.
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