PGS INTRODUCTION
NEWS
NEWS
- NOTE: Our meeting and happy hour locations within the DoubleTree have moved during their renovation
- Please refer to details below
- President's welcome letter and new membership form added August 2018
- Starting September, 2018, PGS meetings are being held on the second Thursday each month, with two exceptions (December and May), so as to overlap less with our fellow professional society meetings.
- Please see our meeting schedule below
- PGS officers chaired a session at the December, 2018 AGU meeting in Washington, DC:
- T13E: Geology and Geophysics of the National Capital Region - Posters
- Thank you for your submissions and for attending!
- Thank you also for Joining us at a successful post-session HH!
- The DC Geology Events blog lists other geology events in the DMV
Updated February 2019
Meeting sCHEDULE:
Meeting sCHEDULE:
- September 13, 2018:
- House building, subdivision development and farming in (and below) the active volcanic rift zones of Kilauea and Mauna Loa, island of Hawaii: What could possibly go wrong? by Michael P. Ryan, PhD
- Click here for presentation abstract and speaker biography
- October 11, 2018:
- How holes in Iceland’s rocks help us understand the ocean on Saturn’s tiny moon Enceladus
- Dr. Emily Martin, Smithsonian CEPS
- Click here for presentation abstract and speaker biography
- November 8, 2018:
- December 6, 2018 (NB: First Thursday of the month):
- David Johnston and Emma Hudson-Doyle, Massey University, New Zealand
- Understanding human behaviour during and immediately following earthquake shaking
- Click here for presentation abstract and speaker biographies
- January 10, 2019:
- Jacopo Sala, 3D-Radar AS
- Speaking on 3D-Radar - Step Frequency Continuous Waveform 3D Ground Penetrating Radar
- Click here for printable flyer
- February 14 ♥ 2019:
- Michael E. Purucker, Planetary Magnetospheres Lab Chief, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
- The role of magnetic fields as fingerprints of processes in planetary lithospheres
- Click here for printable flyer
- March 14 🥧 2019:
- Phillip Goodling, USGS
- Feel the River Rumble: An Introduction to Fluvial Seismology, with a case study from the 2017 Oroville Dam Crisis
- Jay Pulli will also give a short presentation on observing teleseismic earthquakes on a network of Raspberry Shake seismometers.
- NOTE: We'll meet instead in the Dogwood Room at the DoubleTree Hotel
- Click here for printable flyer
- April 11, 2019:
- Peter Hutchinson, PhD, PG
- THG Geophysics, Ltd.
- Two Geophysical Methods for Detecting Subsurface Voids
- Click for presentation abstract and speaker biography
- May 16, 2019: Joint meeting with AEG DMV Chapter: Speaker TBD
Meeting Location:
Meeting Location:
- DoubleTree by Hilton McLean Tysons
- Link to Google Maps: 1960 Chain Bridge Road, McLean, VA 22102
- If entering address manually, McLean or Tysons address should now work, but please double-check your destination before starting your drive!
- Transit: Hotel is within one-half mile of Tysons Corner Metro station
- Sidewalk directions with CAUTION crossing International Dr.
- Driving: Hotel is near I-495 and Rt. 123, and has free garage parking available
- NOTE: Starting in January, our private meeting space is now the Dogwood Room in the convention area of the DoubleTree Hotel (Please follow the signs)
- Social time is typically held in O’Malley’s Pub, now temporarily located at the back of the Harvest Café restaurant on the second floor of the DoubleTree Hotel
DINNER Cost and RSVP
DINNER Cost and RSVP
- Members and guests may attend any presentation after dinner for no charge
- The optional three course dinner cost is discounted to $30 for members in good standing (having paid dues) and for students, is $40 for non-members, and is inclusive of coffee, tax and gratuity
- Alcoholic beverages may be purchased in the private meeting room on a cash basis
- Dinner service begins at 7 PM and we estimate that the presentation begins at about 8:15 PM. For attendees who arrive early, social time begins about 6 PM
- To RSVP, please write to dcgeophys@gmail.com
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INTERESTED?
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Society Officers:
Society Officers:
- President: Marc Buursink
- First Vice-President: Lisa Schleicher
- Second Vice-President: Catherine Enomoto
- Secretary: Kori Newman
- Treasurer: Joe Bennett
- Soc. of Expl. Geophys. Liaison: Catherine Enomoto
2018–19 Meeting Year