The Bradley lecture was given Oct. 9 and a draft of the meeting minutes can be found here.
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This will be an IN-PERSON meeting only. Three excellent talks will be presented:
ANDY CAMPBELL, Nuclear Regulatory Commission (retired) – Geochemistry of hydrothermal vents in the Gulf of California
CHRISTINA DEVERA, U.S. Geological Survey – USGS Geoheritage Sites of the Nation Inventory: Connecting geologic mapping and societal values to reach a broad audience
RYAN MCALEER, U.S. Geological Survey – Microtextures and microchemistry in retrograde shear zones and their implications for geochronology, deformation mechanisms, and rock strength
Come at 7:30 PM to socialize and imbibe, the meeting begins at 8 PM, and ends by 10 PM.
The GSW fall field trip has been changed to Saturday, December 7th. Check back here for updates and details.
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The first GSW meeting of the Fall featured three formal talks, and an obituary of Daniel Milton. A draft of the meeting minutes can be found here.
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The 1603rd meeting of the Geological Society of Washington will take place at the Cosmos Club on October 9. We are honored to host Dr. Isabel P. Montañez of the University of California, Davis as our Bradley Lecturer this year with the presentation: “Paleo-CO2 Revisited — New insight into the Earth System of the Deep Past“.
Dr. Montañez is the Director of the UC Davis Institute of the Environment, and is the current Chair of the National Academies of Sciences Board on Earth Sciences and Resources. Learn more about Dr. Montañez and her distinguished career at her website: https://eps.ucdavis.edu/people/faculty/montanez
Come at 7:30 PM to socialize and imbibe, the meeting begins at 8 PM, and ends by 10 PM.
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This will be an IN-PERSON meeting only. Three excellent talks will be presented:
JANE HAMMARSTROM, U.S. Geological Survey – Critical minerals in the U.S.: Past, present, and potential
TOMMASO MANDOLINI, University of Maryland – 3D microstructure, porosity and permeability in and out of the fault in deformed sandstones.
JOSHUA MARTIN, Geological Society of America – Geoscience’s Role in Shaping Policy Decisions
Come at 7:30 PM to socialize and imbibe, the meeting begins at 8 PM, and ends by 10 PM.
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The last GSW meeting of the Spring featured three formal talks, two informal communications, and an obituary. A draft of the meeting minutes can be found here.
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from the meeting at the Carnegie Earth and Planets Lab on April 24 are here. Comments or corrections should be directed to Michael Purucker.
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This will be an IN-PERSON meeting only. Three excellent talks will be presented:
ELI MOORE, U.S. Geological Survey: Subsurface Metaproteomics Reveals Diverse Active Microbial Metabolisms in the Antrim Shale
ROBERTA RUDNICK, University of California – Santa Barbara: Metapelites in the lower crust beneath the Potrillo Volcanic Field provide insights into the mysterious 1.4 Ga Picuris Orogeny
ADAM WALLACE, University of Delaware: Reassessment of the Roles of Ion Hydration and Dehydration on the Reactivity of the Calcite-Water Interface
Come at 7:30 PM to socialize and imbibe, the meeting begins at 8 PM, and ends by 10 PM.
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The 1600th meeting of the Society will be held in the Greenewalt Building, Tuve Hall at the Carnegie Earth and Planets Laboratory, Broad Branch Road Campus. Directions are here: https://epl.carnegiescience.edu/about/our-campus/directions-to-epl
Parking is free on the campus, or on-street in the vicinity
This will be a special event, highlighting the work of early-career scientists. Ahead of the formal program, we will hold an informal gathering with food, beverages, and poster presentations by students, post-docs and other early-career workers. We welcome poster presentation contributions: please email Dan Doctor (dhdoctor@usgs.gov) if you have a poster to present!
Hors d’oeuvres and beverages will be served beginning at 6:30 p.m., during the poster presentations
***This will be a hybrid meeting***
If you wish to join the virtual Zoom webcast, please email geosocwash@gmail.com by Tuesday, April 23 for the information to join the webcast.
Formal program begins at 8:00 p.m, with the following speakers:
Emmanuel Codillo, Carnegie Earth and Planets Laboratory — Tracking carbon-rich magmas in the upper mantle using electrical conductivity
Vasilije Dobrosavljevic, Carnegie Earth and Planets Laboratory — Probing materials at Earth’s enigmatic core-mantle boundary landscape
Jennifer Kasbohm, Yale University/Carnegie Earth and Planets Laboratory — Calibrating timescales and measuring pCO2 to test the role of Columbia River Basalt volcanism in the Miocene Climate Optimum
The GSW meeting at the Cosmos Club hosted three talks. A draft of the meeting minutes are available here. Please contact Michael Purucker with any suggestions, changes or corrections.
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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 
