Geological Society of Washington

12/08/2023

Photos from the well attended GSW past-Presidents dinner at the Cosmos Club.

03/03/2023

Upcoming GSW meeting on March 8, 2023 will include a full slate of 3 talks and be a hybrid meeting.

08/30/2021

We will be going back to the John Wesley Powell auditorium of the Cosmos Club beginning with the first meeting this Fall, on Wednesday, Sept. 8. We have been doing Zoom meeting for almost 18 months now during the pandemic. As many of you know, we had been meeting in the Cosmos Club for many years prior to the pandemic. This first meeting back will be a transition, as we INSIST that everyone wear a mask when not actively drinking (our beer or soda). The auditorium will open at 7:30 PM, as before the pandemic, with the formal program slated to begin at 8 PM. We will have a full slate of three talks, We have a full schedule of three talks, with presentations from Dr. Peter Valley (USGS) on geologic mapping and mineralization in the Adirondacks, Dr. Will Odom (USGS) on cosmogenic nuclide dating of Plio-Pleistocene surfaces, and Dr. Mojhgan Haghnegahdar (UMCP) on methane isotopes sources and sinks. Hope to see you all there!

03/29/2021

For those of you who want to learn about science in the critical zone, including talks on stress fields, bedrock fractures, hill slope structure and hydrology, please join us Wednesday, March. 31, for the fourth Geological Society meeting of the 2021 year. Any non-members who want to attend can email Mong-Hon Huang (mhhuang [at] umd.edu) for the Zoom link.

01/22/2021

Flyer four our upcoming meeting next Wednesday (January 27). Meeting will be held virtually via Zoom, please reach out for the Zoom link if it didn't arrive in your inbox via the listserv. Hope to see you all there!

09/04/2020

The U.S. National Committee for the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) is presenting the America’s Geoheritage II: Identifying, Developing, and Preserving America's Natural Legacy Distinguished Speaker Webinar Series throughout fall 2020, many Tuesdays at 11:00 am EDT.

The U.S. National Committee for the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) is presenting the America’s Geoheritage II: Identifying, Devel

08/18/2020

GSW is pleased to present a virtual field trip experience, "Stories in Stone" hosted by author David Williams on Wed. Aug 26 at 8:00 pm ET. An invitation with a link to the Zoom virtual meeting will be sent via email to all members. We hope you can join!

http://www.gswweb.org/index.php/2020/08/18/stories-in-stone-virtual-field-trip-announcement/

12/14/2018

Hello friends! Our next meeting will be January 9. We've got a great set of speakers lined up: http://www.gswweb.org/index.php/2018/12/14/gsw-1537-jan-9-2019-landslides-silicic-magma-in-iceland-and-oceanic-ridge-melt-focusing/
Mark your 2019 calendars now, and bring a friend!

__________________________________ 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

11/28/2018

It's one week until GSW's biggest night of the year!!

Join us at the Powell Auditorium of the Cosmos Club on Wed. Dec. 5, at 7:30pm for: Dr. Karen Prestegaard, UMD, Presidential Address: How trees influence hydrological processes, weathering, and carbon fluxes in boreal forest soils

Dr. Karen Prestegaard is on the faculty of the University or Maryland Geology department; she studies streams, watersheds, and wetlands. She obtained her B.S. degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley. She and her late husband, Jim Luhr, came to the D.C. area to end their family separation problem by taking positions at Maryland and the Smithsonian Institution. Prior to Maryland, Karen taught at Franklin and Marshall College and at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In her 37 years of teaching, Karen has mentored over 35 M.S. and PhD. Students and over 65 senior thesis students. Karen has served as an officer and on the councils of AGU and GSA. She has been an associate editor for Geology, Reviews of Geophysics, GSA Bulletin, and Earth Science Reviews. She has served on advisory committees and many panels for NSF. She assisted in the early years of the NSF Surface Processes Program by serving as temporary program manager. Karen has served on National Academy of Sciences Committees, examining topics in water resources, wetland mitigation, and nuclear waste disposal. For the past several years, Karen has been collaborating with her UMD geophysics colleagues to use seismology to study hydrologic processes. Her GSW Presidential Address is a report on her collaborative research with an international team of scientists that is investigating controls on water and carbon fluxes in Boreal forest watersheds.

11/27/2018

Draft minutes from the last meeting are available for review:

Here is a draft copy of the minutes from the last meeting of the Society for your review. Please share your corrects, missing details, and other feedback with meeting secretary Victor Zabielski prior to the 1536th meeting on Dec. 5.

11/08/2018

Our 2018 Presidential address will be by Dr. Karen Prestegaard of the University of Maryland, College Park. She will speak Dec. 5 on “How trees influence hydrological processes, weathering, and carbon fluxes in boreal forest soils.” Join us at 7:30pm for this important talk, to be followed by the Society's 126th annual meeting.

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 [email protected].

11/03/2018

Draft minutes from the last meeting are available for review. There are some major details missing, though. Fill them in?

Here is a draft copy of the minutes from the last meeting of the Society for your review. Please share your corrects, missing details, and other feedback with meeting secretary Victor Zabielski prior to the 1535th meeting on Nov. 7.